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47 Cultural Artifact Speech Topics

Cultural artifact speech topics for those who urgently needs to build a 3 to 5 minute reflective informative public speaking speech based on an object in which you reveal the cultural information about its maker(s) and user(s).

What Is

First a common definition to start with. A cultural artifact is:
  1. created by man;
  2. tells us something about the creator(s);
  3. tells us something about the people who use it;
  4. tells us something about the cultural background and/or historical time of its creator and users.
In advance you can present:
  1. how it is made;
  2. to what means.

What Are

Almost everything that you can think of could serve as cultural artifact speech topics. Not only archaeological objects, also even things from this century. As long as you are able to provide the information in the points above. The key term is: cultural background info!

47 Examples of Cultural Artifact Speech Topics

17th century ship cannon
African tribal basket
Ancient copper chisels
Ancient Phoenician glass
Ancient Roman military uniform
Army uniform patches
Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo
Bronze Age artifacts
Buddhist prayer flags
Çatalhöyük murals, Turkey
Celtic bronze fibula-brooch
Chinese New Year dragon
City police badge
Code of Hammurabi, California
College student club ties
Commemorative coffee mugs
Confederate Civil War belt plate
Crystal Skulls
Eastern Orthodox Christianity icons
Firefighter artifacts
French Louis XVI chair
High school flags
Historical markers and monuments in your town
Missouri Indian necklace
Native American arrowheads
Old Alaska Eskimo tools
Participation medals
Political campaign buttons
Salutation Royal Mail stamps
Ships in bottles
Shipwreck Treasure Coins
Sioux Rawhide boxes
Sixteenth-century poison ring
Stained glass window in church
Stone Sculpture from Guerrero, Mexico
Sung Dynasty jar
Teotihuacan Aztec pottery, Mexico
The black stone in Mecca
The ceramic mask of the head of the jackal god Anubis, Germany
The Terracotta Armyin the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, China
The Thiruvalluvar Statue, Tamil Nadu, India
The vuvuzela
Tricorn hat
Ukhahlamba cave paintings, Drakensberg Park, South Africa
Vintage golf plaques
Wooden farmer shoes
Your own stuffed teddy bear

Tip!

Most of these informatve public speaking speech examples aren't easy to move to your class :-)
So, use pictures, video, slide sheet to make your point!



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