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Artifacts James Warner " The story of theIn the eighteenth century, antiquaries wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians'used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not self evident, tell people about the past? In Artifacts, Crystal B. Lake unearths the four kinds of old objects that