A wide variety of analyses take place to analyze artifacts and provide information on them. They can also exist in different types of context depending on the processes that have acted on them over time. The same item may be called all or any of these in different contexts, and more specific terms will be used when talking about individual objects, or groups of similar ones.Īrtifacts exist in many different forms and can sometimes be confused with ecofacts and features all three of these can sometimes be found together at archaeological sites. In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nuance and is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor, which may be a cultural artifact having cultural interest.Īrtifact is the general term used in archaeology, while in museums the equivalent general term is normally "object", and in art history perhaps artwork or a more specific term such as "carving". Mycenaean stirrup jar from Ras Shamra ( Ugarit) Syria, 1400–1300 BCĪn artifact, or artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.
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