Ou can date an artefact by using carbon 14
Neolithic artefacts in Mesopotamia date back to about 10,000 BCE.
Only materials or artefacts containing organic materials can be used.
museums and universities store artefacts for safekeeping\preserve
Taking the literal meaning of 'artefacts' there must be thousands.
Artefacts - 2007 is rated/received certificates of: Portugal:M/16 USA:R
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.
In museums
People that study artefacts are called archaeologists. However people who study fossils are known as palaeontologists.
A museum
aretefacts?
The Ulster Museum in Belfast.
Yes