For what it's worth:

I only use the term 'artifact' to refer to archaeological objects, 
although any object made, or modified, by humans can be 
technically/correctly classified as an 'artifact'.  I use the term 
'artifact' to distinguish between cultural materials collected from an 
archaeological context versus those collected in a historic, 
ethnographic, or contemporary context.

I refer to all materials in a museum's collection  as 'objects', 
including  art, clothing, jewelry, rocks, bones, minerals, insects, 
plants, etc.

CW

-- 
Chad W Landsman	
Laboratory and Collections Manager
Luther College
700 College Drive 
Decorah, IA 52101
(563) 387-2156

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