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archaic period
The name Archaic Period is given by archaeologists to early periods in an archaeological chronology, generally covering the early developments of permanent settlements, agriculture, and large societies.
late archaic
early archaic
middle archaic
archaic homo
archaic smile
Enigmatic smile on ancient statues.
Archaic Latin
Old Latin language form, ancient.
Archaic Egyptian
(linguistics, history) The Egyptian language as written and spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, before the time of the earliest attested complete sentences.
archaic homo sapiens
The term archaic Homo sapiens has different meanings depending on the preferred system of taxonomy.
Archaic Greece
the period in Greek history lasting from to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period.
Archaic humans
a broad category denoting all species of the genus Homo that are not Homo sapiens (modern humans), which are sometimes also called Homo sapiens sapiens, in which case the singular use of sapiens has been applied to some archaic humans as well.
Archaic Greek alphabets
Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until around 400 BC, when they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today.
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