STUDIES AND RESEARCHES
OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
(SCIVA)

Over its 45 years of continuous issuing, our review, more than any other relevant publication, has been the faithful mirror of the trends in Romanian during the post-war period. In the first 35 years (1950 - 1984), the review "Studies and Researches of Ancient History" ((SCIV), that became in 1974 "Studies and Researches of Ancient History and Archaeology" (SCIVA), published about 21,000 pages, and 1,982 titles. The general table of contents accompanied by an index of authors, localities, themes and chronology, was published in SCIVA 36, 1985, 2.

It includes numerous synthesis studies, discussions and excavation reports, material publications, reviews, references, chronicles, etc. of an undeniable value, or at least usefulness. The authors include many names of high prestige in Romanian archaeology; first of all, the pre-war generation: R. Vulpe, I. Nestor, Vl. Dumitrescu, Gh. Stefan, D. Popescu, Gr. Florescu, D. M. Pippidi, C. S. Nicolaescu-Plopsor, D. Berciu, D. Tudor, Em. Condurachi.

In time, they were joined by the representatives of the generations educated in post-war years under the precarious, essentially unfavourable, conditions of the communist regime. Once that regime disappeared, and censorship and the control over science were abolished, we can expect real progress in Romanian archaeology. However, that requires a high exigence as to the contents and presentation of the review.