Cultural artifact

The philosopher Marx W. Wartofsky categorized artifacts as follows: • primary artifacts: used in production (such as a hammer, a fork, a lamp, or a camera); • secondary artifacts: relating to primary artifacts (such as a user manual for a camera); • tertiary artifacts: representations of secondary artifacts (such as a picture of a user manual for a camera). Social artifacts, unlike archaeological artifacts, do not need to have a physical form (for example virtual artifact), nor to be of historical value (items created seconds ago can be classified as social artifacts). == References ==