Archaic

Archaic may refer to a period of time preceding a "classical period":

  • List of archaeological periods
    • 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  • Archaism, the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current
  • Archaic language, preserving features that are no longer present in languages of the same 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
  • Archaic (band)

Famous quotes containing the word archaic:

    “Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)