Romanian archaeology begins in the 19th century.

Archaeologists

Grigore Tocilescu Grigore George Tocilescu (26 October 1850 – 18 September 1909) was a Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, and member of the Romanian Academy. He was a professor of ancient history at the University of Bucharest, author ...

(1850–1909) * Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927) * Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973) ;living * Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (b. 1938)

Institutes

* Institute of Archaeology and Art History in

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

* Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

Museums

* Archaeology Museum Piatra Neamț * Iron Gates Region Museum * Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation * National Museum of Romanian History *

National Museum of Transylvanian History The National Museum of Transylvanian History (, ) is a history and archaeology museum in the city of Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country ...

Sites

Acidava Acidava (''Acidaua'') was a Dacians, Dacian and later Roman Dacia, Roman town and fort on the Olt river near the lower Danube. The settlement's remains are located in today's Enoşeşti, Olt County, Oltenia, Romania. History After the Roman ...

(Enoşeşti) – Dacian, Roman * Apulon (Piatra Craivii) – Dacian * Apulum (Alba Iulia) – Roman, Dacian *

Argedava Argedava (''Argedauon'', ''Sargedava'', ''Sargedauon'', ''Zargedava'', ''Zargedauon'', ) was potentially an important Dacians, Dacian town mentioned in the Decree of Dionysopolis (48 BC), and maybe located at Popești, Giurgiu, Popești, ...

(Popeşti) – Dacian, possibly Burebista's court or capital *

Argidava Argidava (''Argidaua'', ''Arcidava'', ''Arcidaua'', ''Argedava'', ''Argedauon'', ''Argedabon'', ''Sargedava'', ''Sargedauon'', ''Zargedava'', ''Zargedauon'', ) was a Dacians, Dacian fortress town close to the Danube, inhabited and governed by ...

(Vărădia) – Dacian, Roman * Basarabi (Calafat) – Basarabi culture (8th - 7th centuries BC), related to

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

* Boian Lake – Boian culture (dated to 4300–3500 BC) * Callatis (Mangalia) – Greek colony * Capidava – Dacian, Roman *

Cernavodă Cernavodă () is a town in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania with a population of 15,088 as of 2021. The town's name is derived from the Bulgarian ''černa voda'' ( in Cyrillic), meaning 'black water'. This name is regarded by some s ...

– Cernavodă culture, 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 (near Alba Iulia) – middle Neolithic to

Chalcolithic The Chalcolithic ( ) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in di ...

* 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'' (Homo sapiens sapiens, sometimes ''Homo sapiens sapiens'') that are Human anatomy, anatomically consistent with the Human variability, r ...

remains in Europe * Porolissum (near Zalău) – Roman *

Potaissa Turda (; , ; ; ) is a Municipiu, 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 European route E81, and from nearby Câmpia ...

(Turda) – Roman *

Sarmizegetusa Regia Sarmizegetusa Regia (also known as ''Sarmisegetusa'', ''Sarmisegethusa'', ''Sarmisegethuza''; ) was the capital and the most important military, religious and political centre of the Dacians before the wars with the Roman Empire. Built on top ...

– Dacian capital * Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana – Roman capital of province of Dacia * Trophaeum Traiani/ 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

* Basarabi culture * Boian culture * Bug-Dniester culture * Bükk culture * Cernavoda culture * Chernyakhov culture *

Coțofeni culture The Coțofeni culture (), also known as the Baden-Coțofeni culture, and generally associated with the Usatove culture, was an Early Bronze Age archaeological culture that existed between 3500 and 2500 BC in the mid-Danube area of south-easter ...

* Cucuteni-Trypillian culture * Danubian culture * Dudeşti culture * Globular Amphora culture * Gumelniţa-Karanovo culture * Hamangia culture *

La Tène culture The La Tène culture (; ) was a Iron Age Europe, European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BC to the Roman Republic, Roman conquest in the 1st century BC), succeeding the early Iron Age ...

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 Incis ...

* Lipiţa culture * Otomani culture * Pecica culture * Tiszapolgár culture * Usatovo culture * Vinča culture *

Wietenberg culture The Wietenberg culture was a Bronze Age Europe, Middle Bronze Age archeological culture in central Romania (Prehistory of Transylvania, Transylvania) that roughly dates to 2200–1600/1500 BCE. Representing a local variant of Usatove culture, ...

Getae The Getae or Getai ( or , also Getans) were a large nation who inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania, throughout much of Classical Antiquity. The main source of informa ...

Dacians The Dacians (; ; ) 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 considered a subgroup of the Thracians. This area include ...

* Roman

Literature

* Alexandru Odobescu, Istoria arheologiei, 1877

Publications

Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...

by Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, published continuously since 1924

Archaeologists

Institutes

Museums

Sites

Cultures

Literature

Publications

See also

References

Further reading

External detailed link for Romanian archaeological cultures