TL20070913-01 "Sept. 13, 2007 www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly Thursday Now on TheTowerlight.com: View video of the College of Liberal Arts complex groundbreaking ceremony.... Piecing together the past Professor trades typical job description for digging up pre-history, artifacts at Allegany site Patrick Smith/The Towerlight Holding a ceramic vessel dating back to A.D. 1600, part-time anthropology Towson professor Bob Wall sits in his home in Catonsville, Md. in front of other discovered artifacts. Wall has been working at an excavation site in Allegany County since 1993. Towson robberies continue University Police issue fourth crime alert in 10 days See CRIME, page 10 Krysten Appelbaum Senior Editor Exchanging a shirt and tie for dirt-covered clothes and sunscreen, and trading in pens and Power Point for trowels and survey equipment, Towson professor Bob Wall doesn�t have the typical college professor job description. Wall, who teaches anthropology classes part-time, has been working at an excavation site in Allegany County since 1993, digging up artifacts from prehistory. �This site is an archaeologist�s dream site. There is no shortage of research questions to look at and things to explore,� Wall said. The 30-acre site represents every period in prehistory, Wall said. �The plot that we�re working on has a 1400s village with a stockade around it that�s about 110 meters across. There is a Susquehanna Indian camp just north of that which dates about 1600 that was probably occupied about when Jamestown was settled,� he said. �There are also various other components represented, some are early agricultural occupations that are about 1,000 years old.� Now, Wall, who works as the site�s principle investiga-tor, and other excavators are working on uncovering the earliest period represented at the site. �We�re just about two meters below ground surface and we just hit the top of the earliest occupation, so we�re going to work on that the last week of September. That�s One of the difficulties we face addicts coming off a long night looking for money. A vast majority of our robberies are driven by drugs. Bill Toohey Baltimore County Police spokesperson �d ace is drug a nig Sharon Leff Editor in Chief In Towson, a woman was the victim of an attempted robbery Sunday at 1:12 a.m., marking the fourth time an armed robbery occurred or was attempted near campus in the past 10 days. According to a Towson University issued crime alert sent out Monday, the victim was approached by a male suspect near Chesapeake Avenue and York Road. He implied that he had a weapon and told the victim to empty her pockets. After the victim complied, the suspect said, �Is that all you got?� He then pushed the victim against the wall and placed a black hand-gun against her chest, according to the crime alert. The victim said she had no other items and the suspect fled. No property was taken. Baltimore County Police spokesperson Bill Toohey, said the victim was in the alley behind the businesses in that area, and that it was not a well-lit area. On Tuesday, Sept. 4, the Towson University Police issued two crime alerts for armed robberies. The inci-dent that occurred outside the Donnybrook Apartment complex involved handguns, as did the incident on West Pennsylvania Avenue and Washington Avenue near the ATM machine. On Sept. 6, the TUPD issued a crime alert about an attempted armed rob-bery at 9:15 a.m. on Shealy Avenue and York Road. The suspect in this incident hit a victim over the head with a beer bottle. By this date last September only two robbery crime alerts had been issued. Neither involved a weapon. Toohey said police always compare crimes to see if they�re related. �Whenever we have a robbery we look to see if it�s similar to something that�s nearby or anywhere in the coun-ty,� he said. Toohey said overall robberies in the area are down this year in comparison to last year at this time. In the week ending Sept. 7, 68 robberies have occurred in Towson, in comparison to 98 robberies at the same time last year. ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? Illustration by Jenn Long/The Towerlight ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? See WALL, page 14 "
