Bernie Powell, whose series "Practical Field Hints for Archeologists" gained his own first such practical experience as member of a Smithsonian dig party on an Arikara Indian Site (visited by Lewis and Clark, no less) along the Missouri River in central South Dakota "...many long dig seasons ago," as Bernie likes to put it. Hailing from southern New England, his archeology career went forth simultaneously with a career as Science and Tech Writer/Editor. By the time he retired to SoFla ten years ago, he had more than thirty published sites and studies in regional archeology of the Northeast (http://bwpowell.com/archeology/index.html) to his credit: including reports in Amerindian prehistory, Colonial Era house excavations, and surveys in the (sometimes) esoteric pursuit (for Northeastern archeologists), of putative Pre-Columbian "voyagers" - Vikings and others - whose transient presence in New England has been suspected by some, off and on, for many decades...

Bernie was a member, a few years back, of the original ("Phase One," as he puts it) investigations at the controversial Miami Circle Site in downtown Miami. He has questioned a number of the field techniques and early suppositions there, which we plan to present more fully elsewhere some day. He is also creator of an exquisite tabletop model of that Site, showing real-life relations of many of the interesting archeological and geological features encountered there. It is the Museum's goal to eventually add this model to our growing inventory of South Florida natural and human history exhibits.

Though Bernie has recently moved from SoFla, he remains a firm supporter of the Museum's goal and its Staff efforts, and promises continued support and contributions in the future.