Experienced archeologist and archeologist technician every tree, shrub and stone are a compass.

 As Kowalski and Holen reached each site they voluntarily halted and rehashed their decades worth of experience while sharing the distinguishing features of soil types and how to differentiate a modern bone from a fossil. The rough and ready volunteers of the non-profit organization, Center for American Paleolithic Research, that Holen and his wife, Kathleen, began in 2013 used no GPS instead their eyes focused on the surrounding landscape and their ears were saturated with an endless cacophony of sounds from days gone by.

The pair knows how to read each other well for good reason, they began working together about 33 years earlier at the La Sena Mammoth Site at the Medicine Creek Reservoir in Frontier County. At the time, Kowalski worked for the U.S. Bureau of  Reclamation and computer engineering salary was the Highway Archeologist for the Nebraska State Historical Society. They, along with Arcadia’s Doctor Gordon Mackenzie and countless others, helped unearth Pleistocene mammoth bones that were modified by humans and date back to the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago.

“I actually met Doc. Mackenzie in 1982 on a highway project between Ansley and Berwyn while excavating house sites,” Holen recalled. “He was so beloved that when Bernie and I, along with a crew of many others, excavated around the Arcadia Diversion Dam in 1995 we named a site after Doc. Mackenzie.”  The pair revisited the site named after their friend who lost his life at age 70, recalling how fortunate they are, at age 72, retired with the ability to continue pursuing their passion of archeology. Both grew up with an innate desire to learn about their surroundings and were not in the least surprised to fall into careers that demanded a deep respect of nature

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