What does the artifact say

Archaeologists are scientists who look for and study the evidence left behind by people who lived in the past. This evidence tells us about past events and provides information on how the people before us lived their lives: what they ate, how they built their houses and how they organized their communities. The evidence studied by archaeologists allows us to explain how the course of human history unfolded as it did to lead to the present day. Archaeologists call the evidence of the past artifacts, a term that we define as anything that was the result of human activity. In today, as in the past, we make and use artifacts as part of our daily lives. The forks and knives we use to eat, the clothes we wear and the houses we live in are all artifacts. We also create artifacts when we step into a puddle of concrete, build a campfire or throw chicken bones into the trash. These other kinds of artifacts give us evidence of how we interacted with the environment and are an important source of archaeological information.