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Archaeological find may change timeline on human arrival in North America By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
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JEFF HANSON, OF MUSCOTAH, right, is presented a bat for the Joe Tinker museum. Hanson is responsible for efforts to build the museum in the northeast Kansas town to honor Hall of Fame Chicago Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker, who was born there. Joe Tinker Day was Saturday in Muscotah, home of the World’s Largest Baseball, a converted water tower tank that will eventually house the museum. The Cowtown Vintage Base Ball Club of Wichita and the Hodgeman Nine, from Hodgeman County, played an exhibition game.
long before he was immortalized in the poem, “Tinker to Evers to Chance,� which fans will tell you is second only to “Casey at
The bones of a mammoth that died more than 15,000 years ago in what’s now westcentral Kansas could hold revolutionary clues for a group of Kansas University researchers. But the scientists aren’t hoping to learn about the giant elephant relative that once roamed the Great Plains. They’re looking for evidence of humans — the earliest evidence of humans ever found in the middle of the country. And, Rolfe Mandel says, they may find it. But a hunch won’t be enough to disprove some scientists who still don’t believe that humans existed in North America before about 13,500 years ago. “An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence,� said Mandel, a senior scientist for the Kansas Geological Survey and a professor of anthropology at KU. “So, we gotta really find something that’s irrefutable.� The “smoking gun� Mandel and his colleagues are searching for is a connection between the remains of human-fashioned stone tools and bones from a mammoth, which were found about 150 feet apart on a bluff in Scott County. Carbon dating has shown the mammoth remains to be about 15,500 years old, and if researchers can find a human-made tool underneath or close to a mammoth bone — or, if they’re lucky, part of a tool that was embedded in a bone — they’ll have evidence that humans lived in the Great Plains about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. It would be among the earliest evidence of
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On Joe Tinker Day in Muscotah, hundreds go out to ball game to honor hall of famer By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
AN INFIELDER ATTEMPTS to catch a ground ball during a vintage baseball game.
Jeff Hanson seemed lost in the crowd at times on Saturday, unrecognized by many of the hundreds of people suddenly descending on Joe Tinker Field, recently built at the edge of Muscotah. More than 300 spectators gathered, roughly doubling the sleepy Atchison County town’s population. They had come to eat Cracker Jack, watch an 1870s-style exhibition baseball game, and see what Hanson bills as “The World’s Largest Baseball.� The occasion: Joe Tinker Day, a celebration of the town’s most famous son. Tinker, a Hall of Fame Chicago Cubs short-
VISITORS TOUR THE FUTURE HOME of the Joe Tinker museum, which will be housed in this 20-foot by 20-foot steel baseball, a converted water tower tank. stop, played for the team when the Cubs won their last world championship in 1908. Tinker was born in Muscotah in 1880 and moved away at the age of 5,
Firearms shop in Shawnee that caters to women ‘going great guns’ By Jason Kendall jkendall@theworldco.info
Becky Bieker has been shooting guns since she was barely big enough to hold them. “Somewhere around kindergarten I shot my first,�
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vice to her customers on a regular basis, she says. “A handgun is not the right answer every time.� The female owner of a firearms shop that caters especially to women, Bieker might be the most heavily armed social worker in
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