The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
No single category, taken alone, tells the complete story.
The community documented at Ozette was complex, multifaceted, and technically sophisticated across many domains of activity, and understanding it requires engagement with the full breadth of the evidence.
What the Site Is Today
The physical landscape at Cape Alava today is, in most respects, the same landscape it has been for centuries.
The rocky headland at the western tip of the Olympic Peninsula still projects into the Pacific.
The sea stacks offshore still rise from the water.