Romanian archaeology begins in the 19th century.

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

• 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

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