Use of Archaeological Terms of Greece-Latin Origin

Abstract

The article considers international archaeological terms which show that the ways of their creation are different. These may be ready-made language units taken from Greek, Latin or another language, or words that have undergone reinterpretation in relation to the needs of archaeology, or terms created in the field of archaeology from interna-tional term elements. Comparison of the semantics of terms in a number of languages allowed to reveal pseudo-international lexicon homologous only in form.Archaeology holds a special place among historical Sciences. Studying materials of historical sources, provides are source for historical reconstructions of ancient eras. Today, archaeology in our country has turned from an auxiliary historical discipline in the pre-revolutionary period into a science that solves important historical problems of social progress, economic development, religion, art, formation and mutual influence of cultures.As one of the most important disciplines of the historical cycle, archaeology has its object of study and its terminology with its inherent specificity. From a linguistic point of view, archaeological terminology is of high interest for research. Due to extra linguistic reasons. Unity of purpose and tasks of historical research determines the similarity of the language of archaeology with the historical description, the uniqueness of the object of archaeological science lies in the connection that provides the intimacy of its terminology with lexicon of popular language. The materialist conception of archaeology, its class character brings language archaeological publications with the language of social and political Sciences.