Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - The archaeology of artefacts AU - NeustupnĂ˝ E Y1 - 2013 VL - 51 IS - 2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 169 EP - 174 KW - Human World KW - (Cultural) inheritance KW - Degrees of complexity KW - Archaeological institutes N2 - N2 - Artefacts form an inseparable couple with humans. Their circulation among humans follows the principles of (artefact) inheritance; their formal variation is given by degrees of complexity, which is the basis of archaeological institutes determining social relations. The couple artefacts-humans is the basis of the Human World, an entity higher than Nature. Certain concepts valid in Nature, such as life and death, lose significance in the Human World. ER -