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Artifacts  

Definition

  • Generally, objects made or altered by humans, typically manually portable products of human workmanship, such as tools, utensils, objects for personal adornment, or art. Specifically, in archaeology, an artifact is an object made by a human culture, as distinguished from natural remains, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavor. Do not use for the technical and medical sense, that is, for a product or effect that is not present in the natural state of an organism or system, but occurs due to the investigation itself or due to some other extraneous activity. [AT]

Entry terms

  • Artefacts
  • Man-made objects, artifacts
  • Objects, man-made, artifacts

Notation

  • 121770

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-L61L1G3W-C

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