Little is known about Fort Ancient sites in the southern Hocking River drainage basin of southeast Ohio. The Allen site, a multicomponent habitation site located along Margaret Creek, a tributary of the Hocking River, has begun to change this situation. Part of the greater central Ohio River drainage basin and Fort Ancient culture area, the most intense occupation at the Allen site occurred during the Late Woodland and Late Prehistoric periods. Locus 2 represents a fissioning of the main Allen site population during this time to accommodate population growth. Based on excavations conducted at Locus 2 by Ohio University archaeological summer field schools in 1994 and 1996, feature and artifactual analyses are presented, emphasizing the environmental setting, chronology, function, and the domestic economy of this economically interdependent household that is part of the greater Allen village community. It is concluded that a wide range of domestic economic functions were conducted on a day-to-day basis within the Allen 2 household and occasionally as part of the greater Allen village community-level economy. Members of this Fort Ancient household were self-sufficient, managing their domestic economy around the availability and accessibility of a multitude of natural resources to meet the household’s basic needs.