The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
His ability to mobilize university resources while maintaining the community control that the Makah insisted upon required ongoing negotiation and institutional management.
The conservators who worked with the waterlogged organic materials were developing and applying specialized techniques that were not standard practice in most archaeological conservation work of the period.
The challenge of stabilizing 500-year-old waterlogged wood required drawing on experience from marine archaeology, from the conservation of bog finds in Europe, and from the developing literature on polyethylene glycol treatment of waterlogged wood.
The Ozette project contributed to this methodological literature while drawing on it.
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