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)
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)