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:
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List of archaeological periods
The names for archaeological periods in the list of archaeological periods vary enormously from region to region. This is a list of the main divisions by continent and region. Dating also varies considerably and those given are broad approximations ...
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Sumerian language
Sumerian is the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 3000 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day ...
, spoken between 31st - 26th centuries BC in Mesopotamia (Classical Sumerian is from 26th - 23rd centuries BC).
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Archaic Greece
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Archaic period in the Americas
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Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
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Archaic Homo sapiens, people who lived about 300,000 to 30,000 B.P. (this is far earlier than the archaeological definition)
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Archaism
In language, an archaism (from the grc, ἀρχαϊκός, ''archaïkós'', 'old-fashioned, antiquated', ultimately , ''archaîos'', 'from the beginning, ancient') is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a hi ...
, speech or writing in a form that is no longer current
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Archaic language, one that preserves features that are no longer present in other languages of the same language family
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List of archaic musical instruments
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Archaic Latin
Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin (Classical la, prīsca Latīnitās, lit=ancient Latinity), was the Latin language in the period before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. It descends from a common Proto-Italic ...
(also called Old Latin or Early Latin), Latin language up to about 75 BC
Archaic may also refer to:
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''Archaic'' (comics), a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting
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