What are artifacts?

Artifacts are things we find that help us understand what happened long ago.

Imagine you're playing with your favorite toy, and after a while, you leave it outside in the rain. Years later, someone finds that same toy, now a little worn out, and they can guess that you played with it a long time ago. That toy is like an artifact!

Artifacts can be anything people left behind, like tools, clothes, or even food.

• If you find a stick with carvings in the ground, maybe someone used it to write messages.
• A cracked bowl might tell us about a meal from long ago, and how rough life was back then!

Artifacts are like clues that help us solve a big puzzle. They give us hints about how people lived, what they ate, and even what games they played.

So next time you find something interesting in your backyard, it might be an artifact, a piece of history waiting to be discovered!