Cultural artifact

A cultural artifact is anything made ​​by man and contains information about the culture of its creator and users. The term is used in the social sciences, anthropology, ethnology, sociology and medicine. In medicine and medical genetics, the term has a somewhat narrower meaning: There is a cultural artifact is a conditional by the method findings ( artifact ( Diagnostics) ). In archeology, the term includes the type of archaeological artifact (Artifact (archeology) ), which is discovered at archaeological sites. Contemporary objects of modern and pre-modern societies are also cultural artifacts. In anthropological context, a lathe or a faience pottery from the 17th century offer as well as a television information at the time in which these objects were made and used, or be. Cultural artifacts can refer many other topics on knowledge of technical processes, to the economy and social structure as well.