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"Cultural relic" is a common translation for wenwu , a common Chinese word that usually means "antique" but can be extended to anything, including object and monument, that is of historical and cultural value. However, this has some issues since the term wenwu has little resemblance to the English usage of "relic". In most cases, "artifact ...
"Relict" was an ancient term still used in colonial (British) America, and in England and Ireland of that era, now archaic, for a widow; it has come to be a generic or collective term for widows and widowers. In historical linguistics, a relict is a word that is a survivor of a form or forms that are otherwise archaic.
The large bone in the middle (about 5 cm in length) is the actual relic of St. Boniface. A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine, by the French term châsse, and historically also referred to as a phylactery [1]) is a container for relics. A portable reliquary may be called a fereter, and a chapel in which it is housed a feretory or feretery. [2]
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Cultural artifact is a more generic term and should be considered with two words of similar, but narrower, nuance: it can include objects recovered from archaeological sites, i.e. archaeological artifacts, but can also include objects of modern or early-modern society, or social artifacts.
A term used for objects, particularly sherds of pottery, which can be dated to a particular chronological period, and so used to ascertain the date of a particular context. dig An informal term for an archaeological excavation. disturbance Any change to an archaeological site due to events which occurred after the site was laid down. dry sieving
A Buddha relic was enshrined at Sakyamuni Chedai in Oudong in 2002. Fifty years earlier, this relic was transported from Sri Lanka to Phnom Penh, but was transported again after King Sihanouk voiced concerns about urban decay surrounding Phnom Penh. [28] King Sihanouk of Cambodia received a Buddha relic from the French in 1952. [29]
A relict (or relic) plant or animal is a taxon that persists as a remnant of what was once a diverse and widespread population. Relictualism occurs when a widespread habitat or range changes and a small area becomes cut off from the whole.