2002 Field Season
Penn State's work at the Annis Village began in May of 2002 with a crew composed entirely of volunteers, most of whom were Penn State undergraduates. The goals of the initial fieldwork were modest -- to try to locate the edges of the WPA's 1939-1940 excavation and to find known points to tie our excavation into the WPA map of the site. The images show the state of the site today and the work done in 2002.
Figure 1. The reconstructed mound as it appeared in May 2002. Crew members are visible for scale if you look hard enough.
Figure 2. The Annis Village as it appeared in May of 2001. Much of the site is now plowed.
Figure 3. Penn State excavations viewed from the Annis Mound summit, May 2002. During 2002 and 2003, the crews worked in the wooded part of the site.
Figure 4. Crew members Shelly Becker and Joe Orkin recording a profile, May 2002. The 2002 excavations succeeded in locating the edges of the WPA excavation. We also relocated a pit that was left partially unexcavated by the WPA (Figure 5) and remnants of excavated house walls (Figure 6).
Figure 5. The WPA crew excavated one-half of this pit. The arrow is on light brown soil that fills the WPA excavation. The darker soil above the arrow dates to prehistoric times.
Figure 6. The light brown areas under the trowel are remnants of prehistoric walls.
