This is false, <em>fossils</em> are the remains of past organisms that have been concealed due to some kind of natural method (for example, some fossils are found in rocks that are in the sea, this is because over years the animals died and rocks as formed over or around it). The word you are looking for is <em>artifacts</em>
In many ways the Columbian Exchange that occurred after Columbus landed in the New World was an early form of globalization in that it led to good and ideas to be spread over the world.