Archaic may refer to: * Archaic Period (several meanings), archaeological term used to refer to a very early period differing by location *

Archaic humans A number of varieties of ''Homo'' are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period that precedes and is contemporary to the emergence of the earliest early modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') around 300 ka. Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) f ...

, people before ''homo sapiens'' * ''Archaic'' (comics), a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting *

Archaism In language, an archaism (from the grc, ἀρχαϊκός, ''archaïkós'', 'old-fashioned, antiquated', ultimately , ''archaîos'', 'from the beginning, ancient') is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a hi ...

, an archaic word or style of speech or writing.

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