Romanian archaeology begins in the 19th century. Temple of Saturn and Temple of Vespasian, Rome (3588905866)

Archaeologists

Alexandru Odobescu Alexandru Ioan Odobescu (; 23 June 1834 – 10 November 1895) was a Romanian author, archaeologist and politician. Biography He was born in Bucharest, the second child of General Ioan Odobescu and his wife Ecaterina. After attending Saint Sava ...

(1834—1895) * Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909) * Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927) * Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973) ;living *

Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (born 1937, Bucharest-2019) was a Romanian historian and archeologist. Education Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino studied at the Sfântul Sava High School, graduating in 1954. Thereafter he attended the courses of the Faculty ...

(b. 1938) * Adrian Andrei Rusu (b. 1951) – medieval archaeology, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History in

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Institutes

* Institute of Archaeology and Art History in

* Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest

Museums

Archaeology Museum Piatra Neamț The History & Archaeology Museum in Piatra Neamț, Romania, was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Constantin Matasă, minister and amateur archaeologist. The museum shelters the most important collection of Cucuteni culture Cucut ...

* Iron Gates Region Museum *

Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation The Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation is a museum in Deva, Romania. A brief history of Deva and its other neighbouring citadels as well as extensive archaeological discoveries from the numerous sights in and around the Orăştie Mountains ...

* National Museum of Romanian History * National Museum of Transylvanian History

Sites

* Acidava (Enoşeşti) – Dacian, Roman *

Apulon Apulon (''Apoulon'', ''Apula'') was a Dacian fortress city close to modern Alba Iulia, Romania. The Latin name of Apulum is derived. The exact location is believed by many archaeologists to be the Dacian fortifications on top of ''Piatra Craivi ...

(Piatra Craivii) – Dacian * Apulum (Alba Iulia) – Roman, Dacian * Argedava (Popeşti) – Dacian, possibly Burebista's court or capital *

Argidava Argidava (''Argidaua'', ''Arcidava'', ''Arcidaua'', ''Argedava'', ''Argedauon'', ''Argedabon'', ''Sargedava'', ''Sargedauon'', ''Zargedava'', ''Zargedauon'', grc, Ἀργίδαυα, Αργεδαυον, Αργεδαβον, Σαργεδαυον) ...

(Vărădia) – Dacian, Roman *

Basarabi Murfatlar () is a town in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. It officially became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program. Etymology The name of the town originates from the Turkish word of Arabic o ...

(Calafat) –

Basarabi culture The Basarabi culture was an archaeological culture in Southeastern Europe (mainly in Romania), dated between 8th - 7th centuries BC. It was named after Basarabi, a village in Dolj County, south-western Romania, nowadays an administrative componen ...

(8th - 7th centuries BC), related to

Hallstatt culture The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western Europe, Western and Central European Archaeological culture, culture of Late Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe ...

* Boian Lake –

Boian culture The Boian culture (dated to 4300–3500 BC), also known as the Giulești–Marița culture or Marița culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe. It is primarily found along the lower course of the Danube in what is now Ro ...

(dated to 4300–3500 BC) * Callatis (Mangalia) – Greek colony *

Capidava Capidava (''Kapidaua'', ''Cappidava'', ''Capidapa'', ''Calidava'', ''Calidaua'') was an important Geto-Dacian center on the right bank of the Danube. After the Roman conquest, it became a civil and military center, as part of the province of ...

– Dacian, Roman *

Cernavodă Cernavodă () is a town in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania with a population of 20,514. The town's name is derived from the Bulgarian ''černa voda'' (черна вода in Cyrillic), meaning 'black water'. This name is regarded by ...

–

Cernavodă culture The Cernavodă culture, ca. 4000– 3200 BC, was a late Copper Age archaeological culture. It was along the lower Eastern Bug River and Danube and along the coast of the Black Sea and somewhat inland, generally in present-day Romania and Bulgari ...

, Dacian * Coasta lui Damian (Măerişte) * Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains *

Drobeta ''Drobeta'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1858. Species * ''Drobeta albicauda'' (Hampson, 1910) * ''Drobeta albirufa'' (Druce, 1909) * ''Drobeta andrevia'' ...

– Roman * Giurtelecu Şimleului * Histria – Greek colony *

Lumea Noua ''Lumea'' ( Romanian: ''The World'') was a monthly magazine on international politics published in Bucharest, Romania, between 1963 and 1993. History and profile ''Lumea'' was established by George Ivascu in 1963. It is the successor of '' Timp ...

(near Alba Iulia) – middle Neolithic to Chalcolithic * Napoca (Cluj-Napoca) – Dacian, Roman * Peștera cu Oase – the oldest

early modern human Early modern human (EMH) or anatomically modern human (AMH) are terms used to distinguish ''Homo sapiens'' (the only extant Hominina species) that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans from extin ...

remains in Europe *

Porolissum Porolissum was an ancient Roman city in Dacia. Established as a military camp in 106 during Trajan's Dacian Wars, the city quickly grew through trade with the native Dacians and became the capital of the province Dacia Porolissensis in 124. The sit ...

(near Zalău) – Roman *

Potaissa Turda (; hu, Torda, ; german: link=no, Thorenburg; la, Potaissa) is a city in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca, to which it is connected by the Europ ...

(Turda) – Roman * Sarmizegetusa Regia – Dacian capital *

Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa was the capital and the largest city of Roman Dacia, later named ''Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa'' after the former Dacian capital, located some 40 km away. Built on the ground of a camp of the ...

– Roman capital of province of Dacia *

Trophaeum Traiani The Tropaeum Traiani or Trajanic Trophy is a monument in Roman Civitas Tropaensium (site of modern Adamclisi, Romania), built in AD 109 in then Moesia Inferior, to commemorate Roman Emperor Trajan's victory over the Dacians, in the winter of 1 ...

/ Civitas Tropaensium (Adamclisi) – Roman * Tomis (Constanţa) – Greek colony * Ziridava/ Şanţul Mare (Pecica) – Dacian, Pecica culture, 16 archaeological horizons have been distinguished, starting with the Neolithic and ending with the Feudal Age

Cultures

* Bug-Dniester culture *

Bükk culture The Bükk Mountains () are a section of the North Hungarian Mountains of the Inner Western Carpathians. Much of the area is included in the Bükk National Park. Geography Although Kékes, the highest point in Hungary, is not here but in the ...

* Cernavoda culture * Chernyakhov culture * Coțofeni culture * Cucuteni-Trypillian culture * Danubian culture * Dudeşti culture *

Globular Amphora culture The Globular Amphora culture (GAC, (KAK); ), c. 3400–2800 BC, is an archaeological culture in Central Europe. Marija Gimbutas assumed an Indo-European origin, though this is contradicted by newer genetic studies that show a connection to the ea ...

* Gumelniţa-Karanovo culture * Hamangia culture * La Tène culture *

Linear Pottery culture The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing . Derived from the German ''Linearbandkeramik'', it is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Inci ...

Lipiţa culture Lipitsa culture (Romanian ''Lipița'', Polish ''Lipica'', German: ''Lipitza'') is the archaeological material culture supposedly representative of a Dacian tribe.The enhtholihgiustic associaltion of both the culture and the supposedly connecte ...

* Otomani culture * Pecica culture *

Tiszapolgár culture The Tiszapolgár culture or Tiszapolgár-Româneşti culture (4500–4000 BC) was an Eneolithic archaeological culture of the Great Hungarian Plain, the Banat, Eastern Slovakia, and Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast in Central Europe. The type site T ...

* Usatovo culture * Vinča culture *

Wietenberg culture The Wietenberg culture was a Middle Bronze Age archeological culture in Central Transylvania that roughly dates to 2200–1600/1500 BCE. Represented a local variant of Usatove culture, was contemporary with the Ottomány culture and Unetice c ...

Getae The Getae ( ) or Gets ( ; grc, Γέται, singular ) were a Thracian-related tribe that once inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania. Both the singular form ''Get'' an ...

Dacians The Dacians (; la, Daci ; grc-gre, Δάκοι, Δάοι, Δάκαι) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea. They are often consid ...

* Roman

Literature

, Istoria arheologiei, 1877

Publications

* Dacia by Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, published continuously since 1924

Notes

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