The demonstration that waterlogged sites could preserve extraordinary organic assemblages has encouraged researchers to look for and investigate other potential preservation contexts.

The methodological legacy of the Ozette project continues to shape how Northwest Coast archaeologists approach the challenge of recovering an accurate picture of pre-contact material life.

What We Know That We Could Not Have Known

The Ozette excavation produced knowledge about pre-contact Makah life that would have been impossible to obtain from any other source.

This claim requires substantiation rather than assumption, and it can be substantiated by working through specific categories of knowledge.

The physical forms of Makah wooden technology in the pre-contact period: this would be entirely unknown without Ozette.