These early texts are generally lumped together under the general term " Archaic Egyptian.

Archaic crossed forms of theta are seen in the wheel letters of Linear A, Linear B, and Egyptian hieroglyphics, the mathematical tensor product, exclusive disjunction, and direct sum operators, the identification symbol for the Earth ( as already mentioned ), and the Celtic cross.

Archaic Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, which lasted up to about 2600 BC.

The first known inscriptions in Archaic Egyptian date from around 3400 BC.

Stone walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs had appeared sporadically during the Archaic Period, though it is true that a building of the Step Pyramid's size and made entirely out of stone had never before been constructed.

The mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, perhaps as early as 4500 BC, more than a thousand years before the pyramids of Egypt were begun.

There is evidence of human habitation dated before 6, 000 B. C., plus 35 Archaic sites ( 6, 000 B.

Since the late 20th century, archeologists have dated eleven sites in northern Louisiana where thousands of years ago, indigenous cultures built complexes with multiple, monumental earthwork mounds during the Middle Archaic period, long before the development of sedentary, agricultural societies.

Its style is based on a simple formula which remained dominant, though with evolutionary modifications, for about two generations, before evolving into the Archaic style.

They were said to have lived in the Ohio Valley in a remotely ancient period, believed pre-Adena, i. e., Archaic or pre-Woodland period ( before 1200 BCE ).

1070 CE, with the third piece dating to the Late Archaic period some two thousand years earlier, specifically 2920 +/- 65 years BP ( before the present ).

The Persian Wars of 480 BC to 448 BC are usually taken as the dividing line between the Archaic and the Classical periods, and before the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC is regarded as separating the Classical from the Hellenistic period.

There are several other inscriptions that might be Eteocretan, such as a set of pithos handles, both inscribed with the word ΞΡΤΑΚ ( inscribed in retrograde before firing ), recently recovered during excavations at the Archaic site of Azoria in eastern Crete.

Archaic forms include thy and mine / thine ( for my / thy before a vowel ).

The potential energy expressed in this sculpture's tightly-wound pose, expressing the moment of stasis just before the release, is an example of the advancement of Classical sculpture from Archaic.

Anaximenes () of Miletus ( b. 585 BCE, d. 528 BCE ) was an Archaic Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC .< ref name =" lindberg28 "> Lindberg, David C. “ The Greeks and the Cosmos .” < u > The Beginnings of Western Science </ u >.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

Archaic bearded Hermes from a herm, early 5th century BC.

Lady of Auxerre Louvre-An Archaic ( 640 BC ) image from Crete.

The earliest settlers, termed Archaic or Ortoiroid, are believed to have settled Trinidad and Tobago from northeastern South America around 4000 BC.

Archaic populations were pre-ceramic, and dominated the area until about 200 BC.

The Dorian invasion was followed by a poorly attested period of migrations, appropriately called the Greek Dark Ages, but by 800 BC the landscape of Archaic and Classical Greece was discernible.

Never a unified state, it was eponymously named after the Ionian tribe who in the Archaic Period ( 800 – 480 BC ) settled mainly the shores and islands of the Aegean Sea.

An example from Archaic Greece is the story of the brazen bull proposed to Phalaris in the mid 6th century BC.

This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece.

* c. 600 BC — Archaic period of sculpture starts in Ancient Greece.

* c. 620 BC — Archaic period in Greece starts.

The art history of the Hellenic era is generally subdivided into four periods, the Protogeometric ( 1100-900 BC ), the Geometric ( 900-700 BC ), the Archaic ( 700-500 BC ) and the Classical ( 500-323 BC ) with sculpture being further divided into Severe Classical, High Classical and Late Classical.

Remnants of the Archaic architectural sculpture ( 700-500 BC ) exist from the early 6th century BC with the earliest surviving pedimental sculpture being remnants of a Gorgon flanked by heraldic panthers from the centre of the pediment of the Artemis Temple of Corfu.

; Archaic Period ( 800 BC-480 BC )

In the 4th century BC Jason of Pherae transformed the region into a significant military power, recalling the glory of Early Archaic times.

* Archaic Sumerian — 31st – 26th c. BC,

Archaic Sumerian is the earliest stage of inscriptions with linguistic content, beginning with the Jemdet Nasr ( Uruk III ) period from about the 31st to 30th centuries BC.

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( ca.

* Ancient Greek: in its various dialects the language of the Archaic and Classical periods of the ancient Greek civilization.

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th – 6th centuries BC, ( known as Archaic ), c. 5th – 4th centuries BC ( Classical ), and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD ( Hellenistic ) of ancient Greece and the ancient world ; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek.

The Archaic period followed the Greek Dark Ages, and saw significant advancements in political theory, and the rise of democracy, philosophy, theatre, poetry, as well as the revitalisation of the written language ( which had been lost during the Dark Ages ).

The word base is first recorded in English language from c. 1325, and comes from Old French bas, which is derived from Latin basis " foundation ", itself derived from Archaic Greek basis " step, pedestal ," from bainein " to step ".

Linguistic data, however, including language reconstruction derived from the comparative method, do not reach further back than approximately 5000 years ( towards the end of the Archaic period ).

Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic northeastern Middle Chinese.

Category: Archaic Japanese language

* Archaic language, preserving features that are no longer present in languages of the same family

* Archaic Latin ( also called Old Latin or Early Latin ), Latin language up to about 75 BC

Arcaicam Esperantom (" Archaic Esperanto ") is a constructed language created to act as a fictional ' Old Esperanto ,' in the vein of languages such as Old English or the use of Latin citations in modern texts.