Creolization is one of the most abstract and complex terms in anthropological scholarship.
Understood as a creation of new culture from two or more groups interacting, this word is
deeply steeped in its unique history and specific circumstances of Caribbean Slave Trade.
Because of this, creolization has been subject to an evolution of academic appropriation,
especially in archaeology, a field lacking holistic scholarship. Arrogated to describe the
interactions that occur through Roman expansion, creolization has become the new buzzword
in Roman archaeology. Yet, to use creolization to describe Roman expansion is not correct
and I argue that Roman archaeologists must find a new word to describe this interaction.