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 humans, 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*Archaism, speech or writing in a form that is no longer current
*conservative (language), 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), ''Archaic'' (comics), a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting
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