The Anthropology Program      
Department of Justice, Law & Society

This is an excavation map of a large, lowland Prehistoric American Indian habitation site located in Greene County, Pennsylvania.  The site was completely excavated by NPW Consultants, Inc. in 1982 (all excavators were university students and alumni) and represents a single village 42 meters (140 feet) in diameter.  The village is composed of ten post hole alignments (houses) and a large community structure referred to as a 'petal' house.  Excavation identified 54 cultural features and recovered a sizable collection of ceramic, bone, and lithic artifacts.  Radiocarbon assays place the site in the 16th Century.

Infrared Aeril Photo | Petal House | Refuse-Filled Pits | Dwelling Outline | Discoveries from the Excavation

The highlighted images  linked to this map were taken from the university's Center for Prehistoric and Historic Site Archaeology archives and the final report on the excavation of the protohistoric Throckmorton Site, "Excavation of Two Monongahela Sites: Late Woodland Gensler (36Gr64) and Historic Throckmorton (36Gr160)", NPW Consultants, 1983.