Lifestyle and more

I think the Dacians really enjoyed life... excepting all that fighting against the romans or other invaders. I believe they liked nice, pretty things, just like we do as well, they were in a sense perhaps, just a tiny bit superficial... just like we are now...

During the archaeological searches, which are still too few if you ask me, a great deal of clay vessels, original dated pottery with geometrical, floral and animal representations which are all a proof of their sense of decorating and improving the objects they used in the daily life. Just like the silver and gold jewels and  the handles of their weapons or the golden helmet which was discovered. It seems that gold was something they had plenty of... They ornamented the simplest object, like iron pegs or Blacksmith's tongs...

Their unending source of inspiration was nature. The stylized animal and vegetal prints are quite typical for them. They had certain preferences like the leaves, stems, wolves, snakes etc. Rarely anyone found any designs resembling a human figure.

As far as the partying goes, there are certain records by two historians (Theopompus and Iordanes) who claim that the Dacians used to take their guitars everywhere along and play them. There are also some records of ritual music, combining guitar music and vocals, performed by the Dacian priests. It is such a pity there are no written records of their song or chants, I mean that there aren't any reminiscences in the romanian folklore of today. Sucha pity there weren't any iPod's back then... 

After visiting so many relics, so many different, and yet so alike settlements/ archaeological sites all around Romania, I tend to have a special feeling toward the Dacians now. I think their civilisation, wasn't so different from ours today. They had: houses, taxes, ''churches'', hospitals, doctors and lawyers and architects, schools and kindergarden everything we have today plus a better understanding of the world surrounding them meaning plants, soil etc.

On one of my visits in a museum talking to the curator I found out, there have been discovered traces that the Dacians performed really complex surgical operations like the trepanations they had a very advanced understanding of herbs, and thought that you need to cure the soul not only the body in case of a disease... which sounds really smart to me...

It must've been really interesting to live back then... in a way, i can't help thinking, maybe they were living a better life than we are now with MacDonalds' & Co and all those Drugs everyone of use has tucked away in the bathroom, you know... just in case