Tribes that are culturally affiliated with particular burials, funerary objects, and objects of cultural patrimony are entitled to have those burials and objects repatriated to them.

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You have found an artifact on your private land in the U.S. If caught, you are subject to a fine of up to $250,000 and/or up to 5 years in prison.

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Archaeology can be used to further the political interests of particular groups of people. Nazi archaeologists, for example, argued that agriculture, music and writing systems first appeared in northern Germany and spread throughout the world from there; Hitler used such information to justify the need for Nazi domination of the world.

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Research clearly demonstrates that the Bighorn Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming was intentionally designed as an astronomical observatory, specifically to mark the summer and winter solstices.

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Archaeologists are playing an increasingly important role in the investigation of human rights abuses; for instance, professional archaeologists have been involved in excavating mass graves in Rwanda and Iraq.

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If the past is a reliable guide, forensic archaeology will be increasingly more common in the future.

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When Garbage Project workers investigated alcohol consumption in a sample of Tucson households, they found that the amount of beer people reported drinking and the amount of beer that they actually drank were quite different.

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If we consider what the American public thinks about their landfills we would say that people think disposable diapers are one item that takes up the most space. The public's response would be a correct assessment of the landfill.

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Although archaeology can provide important information about what has happened in the past, the usefulness of archaeology is limited to largely intellectual pursuits; practical applications of archaeology that actual benefit the modern world are extremely rare.

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NAGPRA does not say what happens to remains or objects that cannot be affiliated; for the time being, they are in limbo, often remaining in museums.

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NAGPRA is fairly straightforward to implement because all Native American tribes want culturally affiliated skeletal material and grave goods to be repatriated to them so that they can rebury them.

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NAGPRA requires institutions receiving federal funds to inventory and attempt to affiliate and, if asked, repatriate human skeletal remains and associated grave goods to existing federally-recognized tribes.

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The Native American Graves Repatriation Act covers the protection and repatriation of Native American graves and grave goods.

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The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 establishes an ongoing "National Register of Historic Places" of ‘significant' archaeological and historic sites.

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The Antiquities Act, passed in 1906, set firm penalties for the looting of archaeological sites, even by today's standards; because this law has worked so well to discourage looting, no additional acts have been necessary.

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The majority of field archaeologists are currently employed in educational institutions.

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Archaeological data has concluded the site of the Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming is

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In an attempt to stop the global traffic in illegally acquired antiquities, many nations, including the United States, signed the

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Cultural patrimony refers to

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Repatriation is seen by

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