Complex sentence: The word was at one point used by western classical archaeologists to mean the jars uncovered by excavation in Crete and Greece, it has now been taken into the American English language as a general word for a storage jar from any culture.
Split into simpler sentences: The word was at one point used by western classical archaeologists to mean the jars uncovered by excavation in Crete and Greece. It has now been adopted by the American English language as a general word for a storage jar from any culture.