Ozette
Makah whaling village on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, inhabited for roughly 2,000 years until a mudslide buried part of the settlement around 1560. Storm erosion re-exposed it in 1970, and eleven years of excavation with the Makah Nation recovered over 55,000 artifacts - about 30,000 of them wood, an organic preservation level so exceptional the site is often called the 'American Pompeii'.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1560 CE mainstream
village buried by mudslide, preserving it intact source - 1970 CE mainstream
storm erosion re-exposes the site, excavation begins source
Where
48.1697° N, 124.7314° W
Sources
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