Artifact
Related: art - artificial - book - craft - culture - human - fiction - music - object - product - reproduction - visual arts
Definition
Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element: “The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy” (Philip Weiss). --American Heritage DictionaryCultural artifact
A cultural artifact is an man-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. The artifact may change over time in what it represents, how it appears and how and why it is used as the culture changes over time. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_artifact [Sept 2005]