The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
The value of keeping some of the site unexcavated is real: future analytical methods may be able to extract more information from the same deposit than current methods can.
The option to excavate in the future with better tools and better questions is worth preserving if the deposit can be protected from uncontrolled erosion.
The long-term stewardship of the Ozette site is, appropriately, in the hands of the Makah community.
The site is their cultural heritage.
The decisions about its management should reflect their values and their knowledge of what the site means.
The scientific and governmental partners who share management responsibilities for the broader landscape are secondary to the primary steward.
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