Location Address restricted Area 5,700 m² Nearest city Cannon Beach | NRHP Reference # 97000984 Added to NRHP 10 September 1997 | |
MPS Native American Archeological Sites of the Oregon Coast MPS | ||
The Ecola Point Site (Smithsonian trinomial: 35CLT21) is an archeological site associated with the Tillamook people, located in Ecola State Park near Cannon Beach, Oregon, United States. Several ground depressions at the site have been interpreted by researchers as house pits, indicating the presence of a semipermanent village. Two dense shell middens have preserved extensive faunal remains, along with other artifacts. Radiocarbon dates taken at the site roughly span a period from ca. 1100 CE to ca. 1700 CE. The site has the potential to yield information related to environmental change in the Oregon Coast region, settlement and subsistence patterns, emergence of ethnographic patterns among coastal people, the change in cultural patterns from before to after contact with European Americans, and other topics.
The Ecola Point Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.