ABSTRACT
Introduction Dialogue between historians and archaeologists is valuable; yet it is obstructed by uncertainty arising from the language we employ. Archaeologists usually and prehistorians by definition must create their own categories and call them by such names as they can coin. Historians, on the other hand, have the language and terms of the ancients, and they use this vocabulary to refine their understanding and define their meanings. In the following it is proposed to investigate the use of certain terms and their identification with archaeological phenomena.
