The name Archaic Period is given by archaeologists to the earliest periods of a culture. In particular, it may refer to:
- the Archaic period in the Americas (8000 BC–1000 BC)
- the Archaic period in Greece (750 BC–480 BC)
- the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (3100 BC–2600 BC)
Famous quotes containing the words archaic and/or period:
“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)
“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don’t know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)