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)
“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”
—Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)