A cultural artifact is a human-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic The artifact may change over time in what it represents, how it appears and how and why it is used as the culture changes over time. Usage of this term encompasses the type of archaeological artifact which is recovered at archaeological sites; however, man-made objects of modern society are also cultural artifacts. In Archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either Prehistoric or historic or contemporary and For example, in an anthropological context, a television is an artifact of modern culture. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic

See also

• Social artifact
• Biofact
• Mentifact

Links

http://www.artef-akt.de/

• Artifact entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Risto Hilpinen

Social artifact is any product of individuals or groups ( Social beings or of their Social behavior. Mentifact is a term coined by Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, used together with the related terms " Sociofact " and " artifact " to describe The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP is a freely-accessible Online encyclopedia of Philosophy maintained by Stanford University.

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