Earliest Village In American Northwest?

Workers in western Washington state unearth one of the earliest villages ever discovered in the Pacific Northwest. “Among the artifacts to surface from the grounds of Tse-whit-zen — a likely former winter village of the Klallam peoples of the upper Olympic Peninsula that carbon dating so far shows could be as old as 1,719 years — are remnants of a longhouse and at least two other tribal houses crafted from cedar. Discovery of such structures is significant, Larson said yesterday, because they may be among the oldest remnants of homes ever found in the Northwest.”