Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by function]

Anotations

Scope note:

In medicine, a biologic or biologically derived diagnostic indicator of biologically normal or pathogenic processes or of pharmacological response to therapeutic interventions.The term is borrowed by archaeology to signify markers of past biological activities that survive in the form of organic residue that survives in a wide variety of locations and deposits at archaeological sites.