The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
In an anaerobic environment, the primary decomposers are different organisms that work far more slowly.
The cold temperature of the Pacific Northwest coastal environment, combined with the oxygen-poor condition of the saturated mud, slowed decomposition dramatically across the centuries between the slide and the excavation.
The result was that wooden objects, fiber objects, and other organic materials that normally vanish from the archaeological record within decades were preserved in a condition that allowed them to be excavated and, with appropriate conservation, stabilized.
The wooden objects recovered from Ozette were not “perfectly preserved” in the popular sense.
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