The remains of sites, structures, or objects used by people in the past; this can be historical or pre-historic.
(3) the fragile and nonrenewable remains of human activity that are found in historic districts, sites, buildings, and artifacts and that are important in past and present human events.
structures, buildings, features (roads, ditches, bridges, etc), and historic and prehistoric archaeological sites.
Evidence of activity or occupation by native people. Generally includes rock art, pottery, places of habitation, and other things or sites used by native peoples. Cultural resources are fragile and non-renewable.
A human work or a place which gives evidence of human activity or has spiritual or cultural meaning, and which has been determined to have historic value.
Any site or improvements on a property that have a cultural significance, such as ancient burial grounds.
A tangible entity that is valued by or significantly representative of a culture, or that contains significant information about a culture. Cultural resources for purposes of MPA Executive Order 13158 are tangible entities at least 50 years in age that reflect the nation's maritime history and traditional cultural connections to the sea, such as archaeological sites, historic structures, shipwrecks, artifacts, and traditional cultural properties. Cultural resources are categorized as districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects for the National Register of Historic Places, and as archaeological resources, cultural landscapes, structures, and ethnographic resources for MPA management purposes.
Broad definition of a feature, site, structure or other form of heritage element that is deemed to be of value to the country either on a local, regional or national level. As with all resources, this term relates to both the fragile and irreplaceable nature of the resource.
building, site, structure, object, or district evaluated as having significance in prehistory or history.
