Zooarchaeological specimens are typically collections of biological material generated as part of an archaeological collecting process that is separate from the type of processes that would yield other kinds of samples or collections of samples. This process almost always entails collecting in-situ from archaeological sites where there is evidence of past human material culture.

A preserved specimen that is the output of an archaeological sampling process and is the remains of a part of some animal.

Rob Guralnick

A set of gastropod and bivalve shells found in shell midden from an archaeological site in Alaska.