Romanian archaeology
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Archaeologists
- Alexandru OdobescuAlexandru OdobescuAlexandru Ioan Odobescu 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 College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, he took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied...
(1834 — 1895) - Grigore TocilescuGrigore TocilescuGrigore George Tocilescu was a Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, member of Romanian Academy....
(1850 – 1909) - Vasile PârvanVasile PârvanVasile Pârvan was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.He studied history in Bucharest, with Nicolae Iorga as one of his professors. He continued his studies in Germany. His Ph.D. thesis, written in 1909, was titled The nationality of merchants in the Roman Empire...
(1882 – 1927) - Constantin DaicoviciuConstantin DaicoviciuConstantin Daicoviciu – May 27, 1973) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian historian and archaeologist.He was rector of Babeş-Bolyai University, and a member of the Romanian Academy....
(1898 - 1973)
living
- Gheorghe I. CantacuzinoGheorghe I. CantacuzinoGheorghe I. Cantacuzino is a Romanian historian and archeologist.Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino studied at the Sfântul Sava High School, graduating in 1954. Thereafter he attended the courses of the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest, specializing in history of the antiquity and archeology...
(b. 1938) - Adrian Andrei RusuAdrian Andrei RusuAdrian Andrei Rusu-Bolindet is a researcher in Romanian medieval archaeology. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca....
(b. 1951) - medieval archaeology , researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art HistoryInstitute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-NapocaThe Institute of Archaeology and Art History is an academic research institution in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.- History :In the early days of 1990 began the process of rebirth of the Romanian Academy, a national institution of reference for Romanian culture and science, founded in 1866...
in Cluj-NapocaCluj-NapocaCluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade...
Institutes
- Institute of Archaeology and Art HistoryInstitute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-NapocaThe Institute of Archaeology and Art History is an academic research institution in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.- History :In the early days of 1990 began the process of rebirth of the Romanian Academy, a national institution of reference for Romanian culture and science, founded in 1866...
in Cluj-NapocaCluj-NapocaCluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade... - Vasile Pârvan Institute of ArchaeologyVasile Pârvan Institute of ArchaeologyThe Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology is an institute of the Romanian Academy, located in Bucharest, Romania and specialized in prehistory, ancient history, classical archeology and medieval history...
in BucharestBucharestBucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
Museums
- Archaeology Museum Piatra NeamțArchaeology Museum Piatra Neamt-External links:* * *...
- Iron Gates Region MuseumIron Gates Region MuseumIron Gates Region Museum is a museum in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania.In 1912, Professor Alexandru Bărcăcilă established the "History Museum of Traian High School", that moved in 1926 to the newly built construction near the Roman camp, that formerly had to shelter a museum named from then...
- Museum of Dacian and Roman CivilisationMuseum of Dacian and Roman CivilisationThe 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 are exhibited in the museum.The museum was founded in...
- National Museum of Romanian HistoryNational Museum of Romanian HistoryThe National Museum of Romanian History is a museum on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania, which contains Romanianhistorical artifacts from prehistoric times up to modern times....
- National Museum of Transylvanian HistoryNational Museum of Transylvanian HistoryThe National Museum of Transylvanian History is a history and archaeology museum in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It features a permanent exhibition, as well as temporary exhibitions, the "Tezaur" exhibition, and Pharmacy Historical collection—this last opened in the Hintz House, an...
Sites
- AcidavaAcidavaAcidava was a Dacian and later Roman fortress on the Olt river near the lower Danube. The settlements remains are located in today's Enoşeşti, Olt County, Romania....
(Enoşeşti) - Dacian, Roman - ApulonApulonApulon was a Dacian fortress city close to modern Alba-Iulia, Romania from where the Latin name of Apulum is derived. The exact location is believed by many archaeologists to be the Dacian fortifications on top of Piatra Craivii, 20 km North of Alba-Iulia. Apulon was an important Dacian political,...
(Piatra Craivii) - Dacian - ApulumApulumApulum may refer to:*The Latin name of Alba Iulia.*Apulum , the Roman fort of Alba Iulia.*Apulum , a Romanian porcelain manufacturing company....
(Alba Iulia) - Roman, Dacian - ArgedavaArgedavaArgedava was an important Dacian town mentioned in the Decree of Dionysopolis , and potentially located at Popeşti, a district in the town of Mihăileşti, Giurgiu County, Romania.- Decree of Dionysopolis :This decree was written by the citizens of Dionysopolis to Akornion, who traveled far away in a...
(Popeşti) - Dacian, possibly BurebistaBurebistaBurebista was a king of the Getae and Dacians, who unified for the first time their tribes and ruled them between 82 BC and 44 BC. He led plunder and conquest raids across Central and Southeastern Europe, subjugating most of the neighbouring tribes...
's court or capital - ArgidavaArgidavaArgidava is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.-References:*...
(Vărădia) - Dacian, Roman - Basarabi (Calafat) - Basarabi cultureBasarabi cultureThe Basarabi culture was an archeological culture in Romania, dated between 8th - 7th centuries BC. It was named after Basarabi, a village in Dolj County, south-western Romania, nowadays an administrative component of the Calafat municipality....
(8th - 7th centuries BC), related to Hallstatt cultureHallstatt cultureThe Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture from the 8th to 6th centuries BC , developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC and followed in much of Central Europe by the La Tène culture.By the 6th century BC, the Hallstatt culture extended for some... - Boian Lake - Boian cultureBoian cultureThe Boian culture , also known as the Giuleşti-Marica culture or Marita culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe...
(dated to 4300–3500 BC) - Callatis (Mangalia) - Greek colony
- CapidavaCapidavaCapidava is a South American spider genus of the Salticidae family .-Species:* Capidava annulipes Caporiacco, 1947 — Guyana* Capidava auriculata Simon, 1902 — Brazil* Capidava biuncata Simon, 1902 — Brazil...
- Dacian, Roman - CernavodăCernavodaCernavodă is a town in Constanţa County, Dobrogea, Romania with a population of 20,514.The town's name is derived from the Slavic černa voda , meaning "black water". This name is regarded by some scholars as a calque of the earlier Thracian name Axíopa, from IE *n.ksei "dark" and upā "water"...
- Cernavodă cultureCernavoda cultureCernavodă culture, ca. 4000—3200 BC, a late copper age archaeological culture of the lower Eastern Bug River and Danube located along the coast of the Black Sea and somewhat inland...
, Dacian - Coasta lui Damian (Măerişte)
- Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie MountainsDacian Fortresses of the Orastie MountainsBuilt in murus dacicus style, the six Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains, in Romania, were created in the 1st centuries BC and AD as protection against Roman conquest....
- Drobeta (ancient city)DrobetaDrobeta is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.-Species:* Drobeta albicauda * Drobeta albirufa * Drobeta andrevia * Drobeta atrisigna * Drobeta brephus Dyar, 1914...
- Roman - Giurtelecu Şimleului
- HistriaHistria (Sinoe)Ancient Histria or Istros , was a Greek colony or polis on the Black Sea coast, established by Milesian settlers to trade with the native Getae. It became the first Greek town on the present day Romanian territory. Scymnus of Chios , the Greek geographer and poet, dated it to 630 BC...
- Greek colony - Lumea NouaLumea NouaLumea Noua is a middle Neolithic to Chalcolithic archaeological site in Alba Iulia, Romania. The site is named after the Lumea Noua district of the city. The site was first researched by Ion Berciu in the 1940s...
(near Alba Iulia) - middle Neolithic to Chalcolithic - NapocaNapocaNapoca is a spider genus of the Salticidae family . Its single described species, Napoca insignis, is only found in Israel. It is one of seven genera comprising the Harmochireae clade within the Dendryphantinae subfamily....
(Cluj-Napoca) - Dacian, Roman - Peştera cu OasePestera cu OasePeștera cu Oase is a system of 12 karstic galleries and chambers located N. 45° 01’; E. 21° 50’ in southwestern Romania, where the oldest early modern human remains in Europe have been discovered.-Paleoanthropological on-site findings:...
- the oldest early modern human remains in Europe - PorolissumPorolissumPorolissum 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 site is one of the largest and best-preserved...
(near Zalău) - Roman - Potaissa (Turda) - Roman
- Sarmizegetusa Regia - DacianDaciansThe Dacians were an Indo-European people, very close or part of the Thracians. Dacians were the ancient inhabitants of Dacia...
capital - Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana - RomanRoman EmpireThe Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
capital of province of DaciaRoman DaciaThe Roman province of Dacia on the Balkans included the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia, and temporarily Muntenia and southern Moldova, but not the nearby regions of Moesia... - Trophaeum Traiani/Civitas TropaensiumCivitas TropaensiumCivitas Tropaensium was a Roman castrum situated in Scythia Minor in modern Constanţa County, Romania. Its site is now the modern settlement of Adamclisi...
(Adamclisi) - Roman - Tomis (Constanţa) - Greek colony
- ZiridavaZiridavaZiridava is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.Species include:*Ziridava asterota Prout 1958*Ziridava baliensis Prout 1958*Ziridava brevicellula Prout 1916*Ziridava cedreleti Prout 1958*Ziridava dysorga Prout 1928...
/Şanţul MareŞanţul MareŞanţul Mare is an important archaeological site located 9 km west of Pecica, Arad County, Romania , near the border with Semlac commune and 600 m from the Mureş River....
(Pecica) - Dacian, Pecica culture, 16 archaeological horizons have been distinguished, starting with the Neolithic and ending with the Feudal Age
Cultures
- Basarabi cultureBasarabi cultureThe Basarabi culture was an archeological culture in Romania, dated between 8th - 7th centuries BC. It was named after Basarabi, a village in Dolj County, south-western Romania, nowadays an administrative component of the Calafat municipality....
- Boian cultureBoian cultureThe Boian culture , also known as the Giuleşti-Marica culture or Marita culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe...
- Bug-Dniester cultureBug-Dniester cultureBug-Dniester culture, Dniester-Bug culture was the archaeological culture that developed in the chernozem region of Moldavia and Ukraine around the Dniester and Southern Bug rivers in the Neolithic....
- Bükk cultureBükk CultureBükk culture may have belonged to a dense pocket of Cro-magnon type people inhabiting the Bükk mountains of Hungary and the upper Tisza and its tributaries. The surrounding Neolithic was mainly of a more gracile Mediterranean type, with a Cro-magnon admixture as another possibility...
- Cernavoda cultureCernavoda cultureCernavodă culture, ca. 4000—3200 BC, a late copper age archaeological culture of the lower Eastern Bug River and Danube located along the coast of the Black Sea and somewhat inland...
- Chernyakhov cultureChernyakhov cultureThe Sântana de Mureș–Chernyakhiv culture is the name given to an archaeological culture which flourished between the 2nd and 5th centuries in a wide area of Eastern Europe, specifically in what today constitutes Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, and parts of Belarus...
- Coțofeni cultureCoțofeni cultureThe Coţofeni culture is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age culture that existed for over 700 years in the south-eastern part of Central Europe....
- Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
- Danubian cultureDanubian cultureThe term Danubian culture was coined by the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe the first agrarian society in central and eastern Europe. It covers the Linear Pottery culture , stroked pottery and Rössen cultures....
- Dudeşti cultureDudesti cultureThe Dudeşti culture is a farming/herding culture that occupied part of Romania in the 6th millennium BC, typified by semi-subterranean habitations on the edges of low plateaus. This culture contributed to the origin of both the subsequent Hamangia culture and the Boian culture. It was named after...
- Globular Amphora cultureGlobular Amphora cultureThe Globular Amphora Culture , German Kugelamphoren-Kultur , ca. 3400-2800 BC, is an archaeological culture preceding the central area occupied by the Corded Ware culture. Somewhat to the south and west, it was bordered by the Baden culture. To the northeast was the Narva culture. It occupied much...
- Gumelniţa-Karanovo cultureGumelniţa-Karanovo cultureThe Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI culture was a Chalcolithic culture named after the Gumelniţa site on the left—Romanian—bank of the Danube.-Geography:...
- Hamangia cultureHamangia cultureThe Hamangia culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of Dobruja between the Danube and the Black Sea and Muntenia and in the south. It is named after the site of Baia-Hamangia, discovered in 1952 along Lake Golovita....
- La Tène cultureLa Tène cultureThe La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where a rich cache of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857....
- Linear Pottery cultureLinear Pottery cultureThe Linear Pottery culture is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic, flourishing ca. 5500–4500 BC.It is abbreviated as LBK , is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Incised Ware culture, and falls within the Danubian I culture of V...
- Lipiţa cultureLipiţa cultureLipiţa culture is the archaeological material culture representative of a Dacian tribe. It took its name from the Ukrainian village of Verkhnya Lypytsya Lipiţa culture (Romanian Lipiţa, Polish Lipica other spellings: Lipitsa, Lipitza) is the archaeological material culture representative of a...
- Ottomány cultureOttomány cultureThe Ottomány culture located in Crișana , eastern Hungary, and Slovakia is a local middle Bronze Age culture near the village of Otomani/Ottomány located in Bihor County, Romania. It existed in the Körös tributaries between Makó culture and the Gyulavarsánd cultures. This culture was contemporary...
- Pecica culture
- Tiszapolgár culture
- Usatovo cultureUsatovo cultureUsatovo culture, 3500—3000 BC, an archaeological culture facing the Black sea between the mouths of the Bug River and the Danube in present-day Romania, Moldavia, and southern Ukraine....
- Vinča cultureVinca cultureThe Vinča culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture in Southeastern Europe, dated to the period 5500–4500 BCE. Named for its type site, Vinča-Belo Brdo, a large tell settlement discovered by Serbian archaeologist Miloje Vasić in 1908, it represents the material remains of a prehistoric society...
- Wietenberg cultureWietenberg cultureWietenber culture was a Bronze Age archeological culture in Central Transilvania. Represented a local variant of Usatovo culture and was replaced by Noua culture. Its name was coined after the eponymic Wietenberg Hill near Sighisoara....
- GetaeGetaeThe Getae was the name given by the Greeks to several Thracian tribes that occupied the regions south of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria, and north of the Lower Danube, in Romania...
- DaciansDaciansThe Dacians were an Indo-European people, very close or part of the Thracians. Dacians were the ancient inhabitants of Dacia...
- RomanRoman DaciaThe Roman province of Dacia on the Balkans included the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia, and temporarily Muntenia and southern Moldova, but not the nearby regions of Moesia...
Publications
- DaciaDacia (journal)Dacia is a Romanian academic journal of archeology published by the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest. It was established in 1924 by the Romanian historian and archaeologist Vasile Pârvan, in whose honor the institute was named. The original title of the journal was . It has...
by Vasile Pârvan Institute of ArchaeologyVasile Pârvan Institute of ArchaeologyThe Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology is an institute of the Romanian Academy, located in Bucharest, Romania and specialized in prehistory, ancient history, classical archeology and medieval history...
, published continuously since 1924
See also
- List of Romanian archaeologists
- List of Romanian historians
- History of archaeologyHistory of archaeologyThe history of archaeology has been one of increasing professionalism, and the use of an increasing range of techniques, to obtain as much data on the site being examined as possible.-Origins :...
- History of Romania
- Prehistory of TransylvaniaPrehistory of TransylvaniaThe Prehistory of Transylvania describes what can be learned about the region known as Transylvania through archaeology, anthropology, comparative linguistics and other allied sciences....
- Bronze Age in RomaniaBronze Age in RomaniaBronze Age in Romania is a period in the prehistory Romania which is divided into the Early Bronze Age Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age .-Periodization:...
- DaciaDaciaIn ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians or Getae as they were known by the Greeks—the branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range...