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Periods

Archaeological periods by region, from the Palaeolithic to the post-medieval, with the PeriodO definition each one cites.

A

• Achaemenid— 550–330 BCE
• Akkadian— 2350–2150 BCE
• Archaic Greek— 700–480 BCE

C

• Chalcolithic— 4500–2300 BCE
• Chinese Neolithic— 7000–2000 BCE
• Classical Greek— 480–323 BCE

E

• Early Archaic— 8000–6000 BCE
• Early Bronze Age— 2300–1600 BCE
• Early Classic— 250–600 CE
• Early Dynastic— 2900–2350 BCE
• Early Horizon— 900–200 BCE
• Early Intermediate Period— 200 BCE–600 CE
• Early Medieval— 500–1000 CE
• Early Postclassic— 900–1200 CE
• Early Preclassic— 2000–1000 BCE
• Early Woodland— 1000–200 BCE

G

• Geometric— 900–700 BCE

H

• Hallstatt— 800–450 BCE
• Han— 206 BCE–220 CE
• Hellenistic— 323–30 BCE
• Historic— 1600–1950 CE

I

• Iron Age— 800–50 BCE

L

• La Tène— 450–50 BCE
• Late Antique— 300–700 CE
• Late Archaic— 3000–1000 BCE
• Late Bronze Age— 1200–800 BCE
• Late Classic— 600–900 CE
• Late Horizon— 1400–1532 CE
• Late Intermediate Period— 1000–1400 CE
• Late Period (Egypt)— 700–330 BCE
• Late Postclassic— 1200–1521 CE
• Late Preclassic— 1000 BCE–250 CE
• Late Prehistoric— 500–1700 CE
• Late Woodland— 500–1000 CE
• Lower Palaeolithic— 3300000–300000 BCE

M

• Medieval— 1000–1500 CE
• Mesolithic— 10000–5000 BCE
• Middle Archaic— 6000–3000 BCE
• Middle Bronze Age— 1600–1200 BCE
• Middle Horizon— 600–1000 CE
• Middle Kingdom— 2050–1650 BCE
• Middle Palaeolithic— 300000–45000 BCE
• Middle Woodland— 200 BCE–500 CE
• Ming— 1368–1644 CE
• Minoan— 3000–1450 BCE
• Mississippian— 1000–1600 CE
• Mycenaean— 1600–1100 BCE

N

• Neo-Assyrian— 900–600 BCE
• Neolithic— 7000–3500 BCE
• New Kingdom— 1550–1070 BCE

O

• Old Babylonian— 2000–1600 BCE
• Old Kingdom— 2700–2200 BCE

P

• Paleoindian— 13000–8000 BCE
• Parthian— 250 BCE–220 CE
• Post-medieval— 1500–1800 CE
• Predynastic— 4500–3100 BCE
• Protohistoric— 1500–1750 CE
• Ptolemaic— 330–30 BCE

Q

• Qin— 221–206 BCE
• Qing— 1644–1912 CE

R

• Roman Egypt— 30 BCE–640 CE
• Roman Empire— 27 BCE–476 CE
• Roman Republic— 509–27 BCE

S

• Sasanian— 220–650 CE
• Shang— 1600–1050 BCE
• Song— 960–1279 CE

T

• Tang— 618–907 CE

U

• Ubaid— 6500–3800 BCE
• Upper Palaeolithic— 45000–10000 BCE
• Uruk— 4000–3100 BCE

Z

• Zhou— 1050–256 BCE