Ou can date an artefact by using carbon 14
Neolithic artefacts in Mesopotamia date back to about 10,000 BCE.
Taking the literal meaning of 'artefacts' there must be thousands.
Artefacts - 2007 is rated/received certificates of: Portugal:M/16 USA:R
In museums
We have the artefacts still available to see today, and can date them. We can then check whether other cultures had them at that date. If no other had them, the presumption is that the Egyptians invented them and hadn't imported the technology.
People that study artefacts are called archaeologists. However people who study fossils are known as palaeontologists.
A museum
aretefacts?
Yes
The Ulster Museum in Belfast.
The cast of The Making of Artefacts - 2008 includes: Giles Daoust as himself Emmanuel Jespers as himself Ernst Meinrath as himself
I believe it's an Archaeologist...