Artifacts and Cultural Expression

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Artifacts are tools that can be used to express our history in different ways. As compared to books that contain information about the way of life of a particular community, artifacts are tangible and they can easily be used to trace the culture of a particular community CITATION Anh10 \l 1033 (Anheier & Yudhishthir, 2010). The relationship between culture and artifact has long been studies by different people. Let us take the instance of ancient Greek pottery artifact. Most of the ancient Greek pottery contained images and paintings about the Greek people on them. This images and the paintings were related to the leisure activities, sports, agriculture and many other aspects of the particular society. As Coleman (2017) notes, as a way of understanding the culture of the community, one needs to take the time and examine the images and the paintings that are found on this artifact CITATION Col17 \l 1033 (Coleman, 2017). One can relate with the available literature to know the culture of the Greek people after examining the artifact. One of the things that I never knew about the artifacts is that each of the artifacts had their own cultural meanings in different communities. I have also learnt that one cannot conclude about a certain culture wi...