cultural artifact
Society's tangible legacy
A cultural artifact is any object created or modified by humans that provides information about the culture of its creators.
The term spans everything from ancient pottery and religious texts to contemporary advertisements and social media posts.
Archaeologists study artifacts to reconstruct past societies; anthropologists examine them to understand present ones.
The mixtape became a cultural artifact of 1980s youth culture.
- relicPreserved ancient object
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- museum pieceObject preserved for display
- potteryFired clay objects
- museumPublic exhibit space
ancient · old world · tribal · tribal mask · ceremonial · totem · mask · cave painting · stone carving · textile · tomb · burial ground · excavation · shrine · idol · sacred object · vessel · sacred
cultural artifactnatural formation
Landscape element from nature
natural object · natural phenomenon · geological formation · organic matter · fossil
cultural artifactrefuse
Reject or garbage
junk · garbage · debris · waste product · commodity
cultural, culture, cultures, cultured, culturing, culturally, multicultural, intercultural, acculturation