Mammoth Cave Kentucky
Mammoth Cave National Park (National Park Service)
Mammoth Cave National Park was established to preserve the cave system, including Mammoth Cave, the scenic river valleys of the Green and Nolin rivers, and a section of south central Kentucky. This is the longest recorded cave system in the world with more than 360 miles explored and mapped. ... Find out all about the many tours of Mammoth Cave. ... View and download images of Mammoth Cave National Park ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave Archaeology
During the Late Archaic period (3000-1000 B.C.) the numbers of people in this region continued to grow. During the later portion of the Archaic period, the Indians began making pottery, cultivating gardens, and growing domesticated plants. It was near the end of the Late Archaic period that Indians began exploring Mammoth Cave and other caves in the area, collecting minerals they found. Why Late Archaic people traveled miles within Mammoth Cave to collect selenite, mirabilite, epsomite, and gypsum is a matter of speculation. The most likely reason is that these minerals were valued for their medicinal properties and/or ceremonial uses, and that they were traded to other groups for food, shells, chert, and other goods. ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave: Its Explorers, Miners, Archeologists, and Visitors
The mysterious darkness of Mammoth Cave in southwestern Kentucky has both lured travelers to enter and warned them to stay away. Some entered and never returned. Most entered and came back to tell of their experiences in the dark, silent, and mysterious cave. From the dawn of time visitors have been awestruck by the cave’s size and its rugged beauty. ... 3. Modern map of Mammoth Cave ... 1. Cross section through Mammoth Cave ... [Read More]
NPS: Nature & Science» Geology Resources Division
The longest recorded cave system in the world with over 360 mapped miles. Mammoth preserves part of an archetypal karst landscape in South-Central Kentucky with sinkholes, vertical shafts, windows, and springs amongst other features. See "Park Highlights" for more information. ... Mammoth Cave Bookstore ... Cave & Karst Knowledge Center ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave National Park - Cave Tours
Emphasis on: See the cave as it was seen by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jenny Lind and other nineteenth-century notables. Leave waning sunshine behind as you enter Mammoth Cave 's Historic Entrance by lantern light. Follow the passageway taken daily by Dr. John Croghan as he tended consumptive patients in his “hospital” 160 feet underground. Gaze upward at rock layers in a room called “Star Chamber.” Follow your guide as you retrace along the oldest tour trails and exit the cave into another ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave NPS Sustainability News Fall 2002
Activities outside the park boundary can affect the health of Mammoth Cave National Park’s underground rivers. Mammoth Cave’s 60,000-acre watershed is occupied by communities, farms, quarries, factories, I-65, and the CSX Railroad. The park has conducted water quality research for more than 30 years, with only modest study of biological impacts. The recently funded Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Program will provide much needed data on the eyeless cave fish, eyeless crayfish, and the endangered Kentucky cave shrimp, as well as Mammoth Cave’s 25 other troglobites, cave fauna that spend their entire lifecycle underground. A new partnership with Western Kentucky University’s Biotechnology Center has revealed new species of bacteria, some lith-otropic (rock eaters), that may change how geologists interpret the age of the cave. Graphic by Tom Foster, Western Kentucky University ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave--Locate 1
2. Map 2 was drawn by Stephen Bishop, a slave and famous Mammoth Cave explorer. Many similar maps have been drawn through the years as people continue to discover previously unknown passages. How would one go about exploring and mapping passageways that twist, turn back on themselves, and continually change levels? What problems do you expect Bishop encountered in drawing his map of the cave? Would you like to use this map if you were going to tour the cave? Why or why not? What is missing that would be important to know? ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave National ParkMammoth Cave National ParkMammoth Cave National ParkMammoth Cave National Park - Management Docs
Conceptual Framework for the Development of Long-term Monitoring Protocols at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky ... Mammoth Cave NP Environmental Leadership Plan (text only) ... Mammoth Cave National Park Business Plan ... [Read More]
Recreation.gov
Mammoth Cave National Park was established to preserve the cave system, including Mammoth Cave, the scenic river valleys of the Green and Nolin rivers, and a section of south central Kentucky. This is the longest recorded cave system in the world with more than 360 miles explored and mapped. ... Mammoth Cave National Park Map ... Weekly National Weather Service Forecast for Mammoth Cave, KY. ... [Read More]
Mammoth Cave--Reading 1
That year, 1935, proved to be one of the most exciting years for archeological research in Mammoth Cave’s history. The two guides, Lyman Cutliff and Grover Campbell, had found what archeologists would determine was the well-preserved body of a man who had visited the cave almost 2,000 years before. Their studies indicated that the man had indeed been on the ledge looking for something when he was trapped beneath the large boulder. With the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps, archeologists lifted the heavy boulder with ropes and pulleys, and revealed the body. The physical evidence showed that the man belonged to a group of people archeologists refer to as "Early Woodland"--a people who hunted game and gathered wild foods in the eastern woodland forests. They were also the first farmers in the Green River Valley, experimenting with growing gourds and sunflowers. Their artifacts, including cane reed torches, digging sticks, and sandals made from vegetable fibers "twin ... [Read More]
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