Material remains

Material remains means artifacts, objects, specimens, and other physical evidence that are excavated or removed in connection with efforts to locate, evaluate, document, study, preserve or recover a prehistoric or historic resource. Classes of material remains (and illustrative examples) that may be in a collection include, but are not limited to:
(1) Components of structures and features (such as houses, mills, piers, fortifications, raceways, earthworks, and mounds);
(2) Intact or fragmentary artifacts of human manufacture (such as tools, weapons, pottery, basketry, and textiles);
(3) Intact or fragmentary natural objects used by humans (such as rock crystals, feathers, and pigments);
(4) By-products, waste products or debris resulting from the manufacture or use of man-made or natural materials (such as slag, dumps, cores and debitage);
(5) Organic material (such as vegetable and animal remains, and coprolites);
(6) Human remains (such as bone, teeth, mummified flesh, burials, and cremations);
(7) Components of petroglyphs, pictographs, intaglios, or other works of artistic or symbolic representation;
(8) Components of shipwrecks (such as pieces of the ship's hull, rigging, armaments, apparel, tackle, contents, and cargo);
(9) Environmental and chronometric specimens (such as pollen, seeds, wood, shell, bone, charcoal, tree core samples, soil, sediment cores, obsidian, volcanic ash, and baked clay); and
(10) Paleontological specimens that are found in direct physical relationship with a prehistoric or historic resource.

Source

36 CFR § 79.4

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Scoping language

As used for purposes of this part:

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