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Why are artifacts importent?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/24/2022

Artifacts like cooking utensils, tools, weapons, jewelry, etc give us clues about the lives of the people who used them. This is especially important when trying to understand the lives of people who lived in ancient times, since written records from these civilizations (ancient Rome, Greece, China, West Africa, Japan, etc) are often sparse, lost, destroyed, or non-existant. Artifacts reveal what is called the "material culture" of civilizations. Material Culture consists of the all of the things that figure prominently into the daily lives of the people living in a particular time and place.

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Beulah Skiles

Lvl 13
3y ago

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