Romanian archaeology

Romanian archaeology begins in the 19th century.

Archaeology was in its infancy in Rome when this photograph of the Temples of Saturn and Vespasian was made in the 1860s

Archaeologists

Main article: List of Romanian archaeologists

See also: Category:Romanian archaeologists

• Alexandru Odobescu (1834—1895)
• Grigore Tocilescu (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
• Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest

Museums

See also: Category:Archaeological museums in Romania

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

Sites

See also: List of historical monuments in Romania and List of hoards in Romania

See also: Category:Archaeological sites in Romania

• Acidava (Enoşeşti) – Dacian, Roman
• Apulon (Piatra Craivii) – Dacian
• Apulum (Alba Iulia) – Roman, Dacian
• Argedava (Popeşti) – Dacian, possibly Burebista's court or capital
• Argidava (Vărădia) – Dacian, Roman
• Basarabi (Calafat) – Basarabi culture (8th - 7th centuries BC), related to Hallstatt culture
• Boian Lake  – Boian culture (dated to 4300–3500 BC)
• Callatis (Mangalia) – Greek colony
• Capidava  – Dacian, Roman
• Cernavodă  – Cernavodă culture, Dacian
• Coasta lui Damian (Măerişte)
• Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains
• Drobeta  – Roman
• Giurtelecu Şimleului
• Histria  – Greek colony
• Lumea Noua (near Alba Iulia) – middle Neolithic to Chalcolithic
• Napoca (Cluj-Napoca) – Dacian, Roman
• Peștera cu Oase  – the oldest early modern human remains in Europe
• Porolissum (near Zalău) – Roman
• Potaissa (Turda) – Roman
• Sarmizegetusa Regia  – 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

See also: Category:Archaeological cultures in Romania

• Basarabi culture
• Boian culture
• Bug-Dniester culture
• Bükk culture
• Cernavoda culture
• Chernyakhov culture
• Coțofeni culture
• Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
• Danubian culture
• Dudeşti culture
• Globular Amphora culture
• Gumelniţa-Karanovo culture
• Hamangia culture
• La Tène culture
• Linear Pottery culture
• Lipiţa culture
• Otomani culture
• Pecica culture
• Tiszapolgár culture
• Usatovo culture
• Vinča culture
• Wietenberg culture
• Getae
• Dacians
• Roman

Literature

• Alexandru Odobescu, Istoria arheologiei, 1877

Publications

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

See also

• List of Romanian archaeologists
• History of Romania
• Prehistory of Transylvania
• Bronze Age in Romania
• Archaeological looting in Romania
• Dacia

Further reading

External detailed link for Romanian archaeological cultures

• National Archaeological Record of Romania (RAN)
• Romania's Mapserver for National Cultural Heritage