Artifact or artefact can be any of the following:

• Any object made or shaped by human hand.
• Artifact (archaeology), any object made or modified by a human culture, and later recovered by an archaeological dig
• 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
• 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
• The Artifact, a role playing board game made by Store32