KU researchers look for evidence of early humans on the Plains

University of Kansas archaeologists may have found evidence that humans were in the Central Plains more than 2,000 years earlier than thought.

Now they are digging to prove it.

What they are looking for are clues that would tie the remains of a 15,500-year-old mammoth discovered two years ago in west central Kansas to some prehistoric human artifacts found about 50 yards away from it.

The mammoth bones and a pile of flakes accumulated from toolmaking activities were unearthed by heavy equipment terracing a field northeast of Scott City....