Artifact

Artifact or artefact may refer to:


 * Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological endeavor
 * Artefact (band) black metal band from France
 * Artifact (band), a band from Norway
 * Artifact (error), an error or misrepresentation introduced by a technique and/or technology
 * Artifact (fantasy), in the fantasy genre, is usually a magical object so powerful that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary means
 * Artifact (medical imaging), misrepresentations of tissue structures seen in medical images
 * Artifact (observational), any perceived distortion or other data error caused by the instrument of observation
 * Artifact (software development), one of many kinds of tangible byproduct produced during the development of software
 * The Artifact (Eureka), a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka
 * Compression artifact, data compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression
 * Cultural artifact, a human-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
 * Digital artifact, a visible defect in a digital photo or video picture
 * Iatrogenic artifact, a disease made up by doctors
 * Social artifact, a product of individuals or groups (social beings) or of their social behavior
 * Sonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another sound
 * Virtual artifact, objects in the digital environment