artifactual
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- adjective
- /ˌɑːrtɪˈfæktʃuəl/
- For most prehistoric cultures, one has to piece together the evidence for warfare from artifactual bits and pieces.
- artifactual value
- artifactual and natural
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- Well, we didn't destroy, we didn't destroy any like artifactual pieces of Mythbusters history.
- The direction of our move is from the paradigmatic, that is artifactual works of art, to non artifactual art.
Examples
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To the majority of those involved in the intellectual world of cinema as teachers, critics, and historians, the importance of the artifactual nature of motion pictures is rarely appreciated or understood.
Academic text (2004) -
Their artifactual nature makes all of the sources we have access to problematic in one way or another.
Academic text (1997) -
Instead, an artifactual set of procedures or programs will be constructed to meet the reporting and decision needs of individual users.
Academic text (2000) -
What our Boston criminologist would call artifactual evidence.
Fiction book (1995) -
The museum displayed various artifactual items that illustrated the daily lives of ancient civilizations.
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Historians often rely on artifactual evidence to understand how past cultures lived and functioned.
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She studied the artifactual features of the pottery to learn more about its historical significance.
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Etymology
Artifactual comes from artifact, which joins art- 'skill' and -fact 'to make', the same idea you see in factory. An artifact is something people made by hand, so artifactual means 'relating to objects made by people'.