Romanian archaeology

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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

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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

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* Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca
* Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest

## Museums

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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

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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

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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

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* Alexandru Odobescu, Istoria arheologiei, 1877

## Publications

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

## See also

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

## References

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## Further reading

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### External detailed link for Romanian archaeological cultures

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

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