After spending more time with Origins…
Birthplace of an Archaeologist
I agree with you, the only thing that changes is their title, value and result. And while I also agree that they’re not worth cataloguing, unless studying their aforementioned subtilties, it is for that very reason that I’m not even sure if they warrant their own thread. However, some of these new items may in fact be of some level of interest, but it is also hard to say, specifically the ‘Fragments of Discovery Data.’
Nonetheless, I believe your adding Metal Detector Enthusiasts in the intro, or basically just something along those lines, is probably the best bet. This way they do at least have a home, and you’re well prepared, just in case Hello Games drops a ‘mindblown’ with added stories, and more items, or idk.
Those stories could be more like, the old tire you pull from the water, and then repurpose to a flower pot. Of which is later melted down for its metals and rubbers, so as to be repurposed and sold in a later iteration…
Only to never learn… that it was actually the one and only missing tire, from an elite collection of only four ever made, which pulled our great Hirk from the battle lines, rewriting history as we know it, and… NOTICE: 1 billion units, if it can be found. And the ‘living flesh?’ Yeah, that was from Hirk, too! 
In other words, all they had to do was add a procedural story, and then they’d have merit. What makes the ‘relics’ so special, like lost artifacts, historical documents and unearthed treasure, as well as fossil samples and excavated bones, is that they also include a unique story and a unique date, adding value.
After all, one could reason…
Formula to Archaeology
Story + Date = Merit
Procedural Story + Procedural Date = Historical Merit
I collected a bunch of these items.
CLICK SUMMERY TO ENTER DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE 
Here’s some of the results to my research:
Summary
Wow…
- “Is this where living ships are born?”
- “Can you spot the falling star?”
- Are these tiny bubbles on a lush planet?
As of Origins… It’s interesting the sights you see while digging…
And to think… This was my somewhat home prior to Origins. My planet is now called “The Nest”… and I think we both know, “Why?” — Or, perhaps I should now feel more at home, closer to my ‘Origins.’
Now, let’s dig up some of those infamous, “Scraps of Organic Matter.”
However, I can’t seem to find any here. So for that, it seems I’ll have to search elsewhere…
Okay, maybe not here. I can’t seem to find next to anything here. Moving on…
A toxic waste dump? — Sure thing, we’ll try it…
“Subterranean Organic Structure”
“Well, now… 
I, uh… fancy name, you got there!”
Yeah… ‘High Sentinel’ planet… Toxic Storm kicked in… But all unrelated…
Sorry… hopped in my ship, but this one released ‘Cyto-Phospate’… as can be seen.
Upon using the mining laser, it bursts open and here’s one of the pieces of it…
Yeah, kinda slimy… And that smell? - Yeah, Hello Games need to add showers!
Yeah, I hope they add bathrooms, too. Cause I’ve been holding it for 4 years.
But, yeah… I guess that’s all unrelated… And, here’s what I got from this one…
“Good mercy! - This ‘rotting planet’ and its ‘pouring toxic rain’, when will it stop!”
Okay, one more… Maybe it’ll be something different, this time…
Okay, I’m done…
But wait, I just found ‘two for one’ !
So yeah, it was ‘Carbon,’ after processing the protein, and the Cache resulted ‘70 Nanites.’
Originally, which was early Origins, I had suggested renaming this thread ‘Archaeology’, so as to put less emphasis on the digging and more on the cultural exchange, but I only made that suggestion in view of the new items and what appeared to be numerous means of attaining these. And while ‘Archaeological Vault’ does certainly work as well, ‘Archaeological Digs’ does put more emphasis on their primary…
‘Origins.’ 
However, this trip also took me back to my origins, because when I 1st birthed to life as a Traveller, oh so many years ago, I did so on a ‘Rotting Planet’… and wished to leave then, just as much as this time, as well.
Regardless though, not all toxic damage is of waste…
In the end, I bagged some bones, nabbed some nanites and stashed some substances. Excavated Bones: $1,858,580. — So, let’s find a Colossal Building, do a cultural exchange, and increase our profits… But wait!.. Celestial Archive only accepts ‘Fossil Samples’ 
— No ‘Excavated Bones’ — But, “Why!?”
Oh well… Story in the life of a ‘Procedural Archaeologist,’ perhaps.
Guess I’ll have to seek some ruins.