The phrase "artifact surface" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to archaeology, museums, or discussions about historical objects, referring to the outer layer or exterior of an artifact.
Example: "The archaeologists carefully examined the artifact surface for any signs of wear or inscriptions."
Alternatives: "object exterior" or "artifact exterior".
Relative chronological proxy indicators (the differential artifact surface abrasion degree and patination, and the non-uniform stone-tool working technologies) attest, together with the specific geomorphic positions of single sites, to several stages of early human occupation, encompassing a long time span of the Middle and early Late Pleistocene.
From the collected data it was possible to assess the multifunctional potential of the here proposed measurement system, that allowed to periodically survey and document the artifact surface shape.
Specular back-reflection from the artifact surface was avoided by mounting the sample with a 3.0 degree tilt relative to the incident OCT beam.
We discuss how these design artifacts surface contextual, socially-oriented understandings of privacy, and their potential utility in relationship to other values levers.
One particularly damning artifact that surfaced is a photograph of an unconscious girl, possibly the victim, being carried like a calf.
Smilgies DM, Powers JA, Bilderback DH and Thorne RE, "Dual-detector X-ray fluorescence imaging of ancient artifacts with surface relief," J. Synchrotron Radiation 19, 547-550 (2012).
By replacing these thresholded complex wavelet coefficients by optimal values that minimize the total variation, the method performs a close artifact-free surface characterization.
The influence of these artifacts in surface roughness measurements is discussed, and a semi-quantitative method based on the fast Fourier transform technique is proposed to remove the artifacts from the images.
She is invited to document the Sarajevo Haggadah, a centuries-old illuminated manuscript of the text that accompanies the Jewish Passover Seder, and an artifact that surfaced at a Sarajevo museum in 1894 and was said to be worth $700 million when it was appraised in 1991, though its value transcends the financial.
The mean unsigned difference computed between the locations of this artifact-corrected surface after the single-spline and dual-spline correction was 23.36 ± 4.04 μm and 5.94 ± 1.09 μm, respectively, and showed a significant difference (p < 0.001 from two-tailed paired t-test).
Surface artifact distributions mapped over 12 ha are integrated with evidence excavated from this Bronze Age settlement in central Cyprus.
