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• Archaism, the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current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 (comic), a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting