An archeologist's find can include a variety of items, such as shards, relics, ruins, vases, sherds, and fossils. Shards are pieces of broken pottery or glass, relics are objects that have been preserved from an earlier time, ruins are the remains of buildings or other structures, vases are containers used to hold liquids or flowers, sherds are fragments of pottery, and fossils are the remains of plants or animals that lived long ago. All of these items can provide valuable information about the past and help archeologists piece together the history of a particular area.