NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Artifacts

An artifact (also artefact) is a term coined by Sir Julian Huxley meaning any object or process resulting from human activity. The specific meanings of the word are several:

an artifact in archaeology
an artifact of observation
an artifact of fantasy
a compression artifact, resulting from lossy data compression

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Artifact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (379 words)
	An artifact (also artefact) refers to any object or process resulting from human activity which represents things from the past.
	Artifact as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is "anything made by human art and workmanship; an artificial product." The word artifact comes from 'ars,' meaning art and 'factum,' meaning to make.
	Artifacts in archaeology is the word "applied to the rude products of aboriginal workmanship as distinguished from natural remains." (Oxford English Dictionary).

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