Artifact vs Pothunter - What's the difference?
artifact | pothunter |
An object made or shaped by human hand.
(archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
* "The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy" (Philip Weiss).
A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
(computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
A person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.
(sports, by extension) A person who competes solely to win prizes.
(archaeology) An amateur archaeologist, especially one who seeks artifacts to sell without regard to their cultural importance.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 12, author=Anthony Depalma, title=An Island in the Hudson, Plundered in Search of Indian Artifacts, work=New York Times
, passage=But hundreds, perhaps thousands of artifacts have been taken by amateur pothunters , whose activities can disturb the soil and ruin the chance of serious research. }}
In archaeology|lang=en terms the difference between artifact and pothunter
is that artifact is (archaeology) an object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation while pothunter is (archaeology) an amateur archaeologist, especially one who seeks artifacts to sell without regard to their cultural importance.As nouns the difference between artifact and pothunter
is that artifact is an object made or shaped by human hand while pothunter is a person who hunts animals for food (for the pot) rather than as sport.artifact
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* artefactNoun
(en noun)- The dig produced many Roman artifacts .
- The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
- This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has too many unsightly compression artifacts , making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
References
* * "artefact" is the preferred spelling in Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary'', with ''artifact listed as a variant. * "artifact" is preferred by the Oxford English Dictionary and most American dictionaries.pothunter
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