THE PERSISTENCE OF THE PAST: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF ROMANIAN LATE IRON AGE ARCHAEOLOGY (AND ITS RELATED FEATURES) IN POST-COMMUNISM AND NEOLIBERALISM
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https://doi.org/10.14795/jaha.13.1.2026.1412Keywords:
anti-communism, post-communism, neoliberalism, national-populism, late Iron AgeAbstract
This paper interrogates the structural and ideological continuities in Romanian late Iron Age archaeology from the communist period to the present. It argues that the dominant anti-communist discourse following the 1989 Revolution did not lead to a renewal, but rather facilitated a retreat into positivism/objectivism and the preservation of nationalist and culture-historical paradigms. The study further explores how these academic frameworks, combined with post-1989 socioeconomic context, have allowed for the rise of ‘dacopathy’—a pseudohistorical movement—and the recent commodification of the past through historical re-enactment, both of which are increasingly mobilised by present-day national-populist agendas.
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