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

  • Alexandru Odobescu (1834—1895)
  • Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909)
  • Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927)
  • Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973)
living
  • Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (b. 1938)

Institutes

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

Sites

  • 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

  • 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

See also

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

References

Further reading


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