The same quality of light on a clear day or in the fog.

The physical setting of the village is unchanged, even though the village itself is buried and the community relocated.

The continuity between the landscape of the past and the landscape of the present is one of the more powerful ways of experiencing what the Ozette evidence means.

The community documented in the Ozette assemblage was not living in some distant and incomprehensible world.

They were living in this specific place, this particular beach and headland and forest, in a world that the physical landscape of today still makes tangible.