Archaic

Archaic is a period of time preceding a designated classical period, or something from an older period of time that is also not found or used currently:

  • List of archaeological periods
    • Archaic Sumerian language, spoken between 31st - 26th centuries BC in Mesopotamia (Classical Sumerian is from 26th - 23rd centuries BC).
    • Archaic Greece
    • Archaic period in the Americas
    • Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
  • Archaic Homo sapiens, people who lived about 300,000 to 30,000 B.P. (this is far earlier than the archaeological definition)
  • Archaism, speech or writing in a form that is no longer current
  • Archaic language, one that preserves features that are no longer present in other languages of the same language family
  • List of archaic musical instruments
  • Archaic Latin (also called Old Latin or Early Latin), Latin language up to about 75 BC

Archaic may also refer to:

  • Archaic (comics), a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting
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