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Tennessee Archaeological Resource Laws

By Baker Associates

Tennessee is rich with prehistoric materials from cultures that have long since been relocated, assimilated or extinguished?from the ?primitive? Clovis to the more technologically advanced Mississippian cultures. These cultural materials can be found almost anywhere?in recently dug out construction sites, along riverbeds, in caves, and under rock shelters. So rich and valuable are these materials to the history of America that the General Assembly has passed Tennessee criminal laws making it an offense to unlawfully remove or deface archaeological materials or to upset the context (such as soil or sediment) in which these materials are embedded. Violations of the laws protecting archaeological resources range from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).