Archaic may refer to a period of time preceding a "classical period":
List of archaeological periods
Archaic period in Greece
Archaic period in the Americas
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
Archaic Homo sapiens, people who lived about 300,000 to 30,000 B.P. (this is far earlier than the archaeological definition)
Archaism, the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current
List of archaic musical instruments
Archaic Latin (also called Old Latin or Early Latin), Latin language up to about 75 BC
Archaic may also refer to:
Archaic , a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting
Arkais