The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

and suggests that useful parallels will be found in the relations between Etruscan and Archaic Greek culture and religion, or between Roman and Hellenistic culture

Typically Archaic cultures can be dated from 8000 BC to 1000 BC.

Archaic elements that occur only in certain fixed expressions ( for example ' be that as it may ') are not considered to be archaisms.

The conclusion of this stage may be assigned to approximately 9000 BP ( there are differences in opinion between sources which recognize the classification ), and the transition to the succeeding Archaic period is not a well-defined one.

The history of Ancient Greek coinage can be divided ( along with most other Greek art forms ) into three periods, the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic.

In Mesoamerica, the termination of this phase and its transition into the succeeding Archaic period may generally be reckoned at between 10, 000 and 8000 BCE, although this dating is approximate only and different timescales may be used between fields and sub-regions.

The Archaic period can be understood as the Orientalizing period, when Greece was at the fringe, but not under the sway, of the budding Neo-Assyrian Empire.

This also leads to an uncertainty in the timeframe of the suspected cultivation ( believed to be during Archaic or Woodland periods ).

: णव nine. Archaic Konkani born out of Shauraseni vernacular Prakrit at the earlier stage of the evolution and later Maharashtri prakrit, commonly spoken until 875 CE at its later phase ultimately developed into Apabhramsha which could be called as predecessor old Konkani.

" Such Archaic sites as the " heroon " at Lefkandi and that close to the West Gate at Eretria cannot be distinguished by archaeological methods from family observances at tombs ( tomb cults ) and the cult of ancestors.

Archaic Čakavian can be traced back to 1105 in the Baška tablet.

However, while it is indeed true that the descendants of the first major wave of modern humans to leave sub-Saharan Africa migrated to all of these places and passed on these genetic patterns, it would be a misnomer to call such people " proto-Australoids " given that this evokes a phenotypic image that is not aligned with the most parsimonious explanation of the current evidence ( Windschuttle & Gillin, 2002 ); indeed, these descendants evolved into Australoids ( Archaic Caucasoids ), who in turn evolved into Caucasoids.

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.

Most current experts believe Rhodesian Man to be within the group of Homo heidelbergensis though other designations such as Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens rhodesiensis have also been proposed.

Alternatively, they can be called by the period in which they lived, either the " Maritime Archaic " ( emphasizing a coastal and seafaring culture ) or " Late Archaic " ( emphasizing time and leaving open the possibility of living inland seasonally ), although these terms often cover the longer period from 7000 BCE to 1000 CE.

Evidence of human habitation or use of the Thompson Springs area can be dated back to the Archaic Period who left beautiful Pictographs in Sego Canyon.

There are known examples, from the 2nd millennium BC, of composite sculptures made of ivory and gold from areas that became part of the Greek world, most famously the so-called " Palaikastro Kouros " ( not to be confused with the Archaic statues known by that term ) from Minoan Palaikastro, circa 1500 BC.

Jerald T. Milanich states that Windover has provided " unprecedented and dramatic " information about early Archaic people in Florida, and that the Windover site may be " one of the most significant archaeological sites ever excavated.

Occupation at Lefkandi can be traced back to the Early Bronze Age, and continued throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages, to end at the beginning of the Archaic period ( early 7th century BCE ).

However, by the Archaic and Classical periods, the term ' Achaeans ' referred to inhabitants of the much smaller region of Achaea.

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

The Greek term carried no pejorative connotation during the Archaic and early Classical periods but was clearly a bad word to Plato, and on account of the decisive influence of political philosophy its negative connotations only increased down into the Hellenistic period, becoming synonymous with " Authenteo "-another term which carried authoritarian connotations around the turn of the first century A. D. During the seventh and sixth centuries BC, tyranny was often looked upon as an intermediate stage between narrow oligarchy and more democratic forms of polity.

# W. A. C. H. Dobson uses the term Early Archaic Chinese to refer to the same period (" 10th to 9th century BC "), although Schuessler suggests that the term should refer to a slightly later period.

# Dobson uses the term Late Archaic Chinese to refer to the " 4th to 3rd century BC ", i. e. the period near the beginning of the Han Dynasty.

A kouros ( plural kouroi, Ancient Greek ) is the modern term given to those representations of male youths which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece.

The term Archaic, which is used by Alegria ( 1981: 4-9 ) among others, avoids this error, as does Preceramic.

The term " Woodland Period " was introduced in the 1930s as a generic header for prehistoric sites falling between the Archaic hunter-gatherers and the agriculturalist Mississippian cultures.

This is also when what is called the Laurentian tradition started among Archaic Indians, existing First Nations peoples of the time.

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.

Archaic and Classic Greek literature seem to make no further mention of Pandora, though Sophocles wrote a satyr play Pandora, or The Hammerers of which virtually nothing is known.

On the obverse of this coin a woman swimmer is depicted, preparing to dive from the starting platform, while in the background another woman athlete is just about to dive into the water in a scene from an Archaic bronze statuette.

It has been suggested that two styles of combat are being described ; an early style, with thrusting spears, dating to the Mycenaean period in which the Iliad is set, and, anachronistically, a later style, with throwing spears, from Homer's own Archaic period.

Twenty-nine Archaic sites have been identified, mostly in south Trinidad and Tobago ; this includes the 7, 000-year-old Banwari Trace site which is the oldest discovered human settlement in the eastern Caribbean.

It is likely, however, that she was one of the earliest of deities worshiped in Archaic Greece, the oral traditions and records of which are lost.

Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece.

The Late Bronze Age is the time par excellence of the lens-shaped seal and the seal ring, which continued in to the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods, in the form of pictorial engraved gems.

The Archaic Triad is a theological structure ( or system ) consisting of the gods Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus.

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

The oldest evidence of humans in the Caribbean is the Casirimoid culture in Cuba and Hispaniola which dates back to 4500 BCE and is associated with edge grinders similar to those used in Archaic Age Central America.

There is also another series of Archaic Age sites discovered by Christi Torres Trinidad at Banwari Trace where 4000-year-old remains have been found.

However, individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally ; thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization ( i. e.: Paleo-Arctic, Plano and Maritime Archaic traditions ).

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.

A widely accepted theory in classical studies is that the earliest temple structures were of wood and the great forms, or elements of architectural style, were codified and rather permanent by the time we see the Archaic emergent and established.

This is not the case, however, in Laconic art: on an Archaic stele depicting Helen's recovery after the fall of Troy, Menelaus is armed with a sword but Helen faces him boldly, looking directly into his eyes ; and in other works of Peloponnesian art, Helen is shown carrying a wreath, while Menelaus holds his sword aloft vertically.

An example is Archaic Chinese 王 hjwangs, a combination of a morpheme hjwang meaning king ( coincidentally also written 王 ) and a suffix pronounced s. ( The suffix is preserved in the modern falling tone.

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.