Écofact

A écofact or biofact is a term forged by the Québécois archeologists to indicate a material vestige resulting from the animal kingdom, vegetable or mineral. With the difference of a artefact , a écofact was not manufactured by the man, but generally consists of residues of its action on the environment: mainly traces such as coals, remainders of food (bones, cereals, shells of oyster, etc).

The term biofact is word made up of bios (“life” in Greek) and of artefact . The term was introduced into the philosophical debate by Nicole C. Karafyllis for the first time in 2001 to explain the fact that the living beings can be, mainly, artificial, thanks to methods such as the Clonage and the genetic engineering. The being alive can also be of this artificial nature on a theoretical level, when they are considered as organizations in the scientific context of the rebuilding of the Développement (such as for example, in archeology or with regard to the theory of the evolution.) The artefacts are artificial, in fact articles created by the man do not exist in a natural state, and which, contrary to the biofacts, are inert. Since they fall into the area of the technology, the articles manufactured are thus regarded as objects, whereas the living beings come under the field of nature. The biofacts are consequently biotic artefacts, i.e. they are animated and that they post their character Hybride.

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