TSES 3001 Lecture Notes - Neolithic Revolution, Denis Dutton, Artificial Language

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Technology, Society, Environment Studies
• Course: TSES 3001
• Professor: John Buschek

Document Summary

Lecture 3 // september 12 th , 2013. An author is some entity responsible for the existence of the artifact. There could be several people that work on the artifact, or something nonhuman (ie a bird who wants to get food in little places so it bends a twig to use as a lifting tool). Most things that we think about as artifacts have human authors: objects taken from nature and used as tools for some other purpose (cid:0) called naturefacts instead of artifacts. In order for it to be an artifact, it would have to been modified in some way: an artifact may be defined as an object that has been intentionally made or produced for a certain purpose. Often the word artifact" is used in a more restricted sense to refer to simple, hand-made objects which represent a particular culture.