The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud
Longhouse construction was a community effort that required organized cooperation among multiple related families.
The investment of resources in permanent longhouse construction is evidence of the residential stability of the Ozette community.
This was not a seasonal camp that was set up and taken down.
It was a permanent village, built with structures intended to last for decades, housing families that intended to remain in place and to maintain their domestic infrastructure across generations.
The oral history of the Makah records that Ozette was continuously inhabited for a very long time before the mudslide.
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