Define artefacts. How are artefacts classified?

A typologist first classifies artifacts in terms of attributes, for example, raw material, color and size, then classifies them using mutually exclusive characteristics, called attribute states. Thus, ceramic pots could be sorted on the basis of shape, for example, into groups of bowls, jars, and plates. "Artefact" is the British noun that has the same meaning with "artifact", its American spelling. Apart from this slight difference, both words refer to an old object with special importance for history.

Artefacts are objects that are made by human beings.  The term can refer to a wide range of things : tools, paintings, sculpture, engravings.

The artefacts have been classified into two categories, Utilitarian and Luxurious. Objects of daily uses and objects made of ordinary materials made of clay or stone come under utilitarian category. Ordinary articles consisted of querns, pottery, flesh-rubbers and needles. These have been found distributed throughout settlements.