Richard Deo Daugherty (March 31, 1922 – February 22, 2014) was an American archaeologist and professor, who led the excavation of the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site in Washington state during the 1970s. The Ozette Indian Village, which was buried and preserved in a mudslide in the 1700s, has been called "the most significant archaeological dig of the 20th century" in the Pacific Northwest. Daugherty collaborated closely with the Makah during the dig, which uncovered more than 55,000 artifacts. Early life and education "Doc" Daugherty was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, on March 31, 1922. He developed an interest in archaeology as a child when he found buried objects around Grays Harbor. He enlisted during World War II. Daugherty was based at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in Lakehurst, New Jersey, where he flew blimps over the Atlantic to watch for potential German attacks. He enrolled at the University of Washington after the war, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 1946. He began work toward a doctorate in ethnography shortly thereafter. His dissertation studies were ultimately completed in 1953 but were at first delayed after he and several other graduate students oversaw salvage archaeological field work prior to dam construction at sites in the Columbia Plateau during the Columbia River Basin Surveys of 1946–1947. These were projects were enormous in scale—Daugherty, along with other young students, were tasked with surveying numerous reservoir sites throughout Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Reflecting years later, Daugherty stated that they had "little knowledge, almost no time, and they [the surveys] were extremely inadequate." Still, this early work led to important discoveries at sites including Lind Coulee, which was the subject of his 1953 Ph.D. dissertation, Early Man in the Columbia Intermontane Province. Pacific Northwest archaeology at Washington State University Daugherty joined Washington State University (WSU)—then Washington State College—as an instructor in anthropology in 1950 until the completion of his Ph.D., after which he was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology. Daugherty's early experiences growing up in the Olympic Peninsula as well as his survey and Ph.D studies set the stage for later field studies and his career, which had an enormous impact on archaeological research in the Pacific Northwest region. At WSU, Daugherty oversaw numerous projects throughout the Columbia Plateau and Pacific Northwest Coast through contract archaeology and archaeological field schools. While at WSU, Daugherty led