MOTIVATION OF NAMING OF THE PLANTS IN FORMATION OF THE ANCIENT TOPONYMS AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 

DOI: 10.24411/2470-1262-2020-10096

Abstract:

The novelty and special aim of the presented interdisciplinary approach was a targeted study of ancient archaeological assemblages of Colchis at the boundary of two leading fields of the humanities – archaeology and linguistics.In a certain cases linguistic analysis of toponyms assisted in concluding in favor of its naming relationship with the peculiarities of local vegetations. We presents an attempt of possible explanations of toponyms, based on landscape-climatic peculiarities and overall bio-environment conditions. Elucidation of all specificity of local environmental conditions might serve as substantiation for explaining the old toponyms, as in the case considered here of Nigvziani and Nigozeti.Flora evidently have a priority from many aspects and determine the mode of life of those societies who inhabited the territory where the peculiar ligneous species are distributed. In the presented case, we discuss the walnut (in Georgian “Nigozi”) which is the widely distributed tree in inner Colchis from the ancient period.Here we attempt a linguistic analysis of the two particular toponyms: Nigvziani and Nigozeti and the archaeological burial sites associated with them. The outcomes of the research is the interdisciplinary research of the multi-layered linguistic analysis of the toponyms and archaeological context of the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age archaeological sites.

Keywords: Colchis, Toponym, Zanizms, Etymology, Settlement, Cemetery, Burial, Artifacts, Etiology, Late Bronze – Early Iron period       

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Information about the authors:

Alhvlediani Nargiz (Batumi, Georgia)  – Doctor of Science in Philology. Leading Researcher of the department of Folklore, Dialectology and the Emigrant Literature Research of Niko Berdzenishvili Institute of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. E-mail: nargiz.akhvlediani@bsu.edu.ge. 
She has until 80 scientific publications. Field of scientific interest: linguistics, toponymic, zaniams in toponumic. 

Puturidze Marina (Tbilisi, Georgia) – Doctor of Science in History, Archaeologist. Associate Professor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Tbilisi State University. 
E-mail: marinaarchaeology@yahoo.com; marina.puturidze@tsu.ge
She is the author of over 60 scientific publications, which are published in Georgia, Germany, USA, Italy, Turkey, Russia and Belgium. She was participated in over than 60 International Congresses, Symposiums, Conferences and Colloquiums in many countries of the World. Field of scientific interest: Caucasian and Near East Archaeology of the Bronze Age.

For citation: Akhvlediani Nargiz, Puturidze Marina, (2020). Motivation of Naming of the Plants in Formation of the  Ancient Toponyms and their Archaeological Context  Cross-Cultural Studies: Education and Science  Vol. 5, Issue 3 (2020), pp. 121-132  (in USA)