PREHISTORY (Before written records)

• Stone Age (3.3 mya ~ 3000 BCE)
  • Paleolithic
  • Mesolithic
  • Neolithic

• Copper Age (5000 ~ 3000 BCE)
• Bronze Age (3300 ~ 1200 BCE)
• Iron Age (1200 ~ 500 BCE)

HISTORY (Recorded history)

• Classical Archaeological Period (800 ~ 31 BCE)
  • Archaic Period
  • Classical Period
  • Hellenistic Period

• Roman Archaeological Period (753 BCE ~ 476)
  • Roman Kingdom
  • Roman Republic
  • Roman Empire

• Medieval Archaeological Period (500 ~ 1500)
  • Early Medieval
  • High Medieval
  • Late Medieval

• Post-Medieval Archaeological Period (1500 ~ present)
  • Early Modern
  • Industrial
  • Modern (1900 ~ present)