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Densusianu wrote his fantastic novel Prehistoric Dacia, full of mythology and absurd philology, which at its appearance (posthumously: 1913) aroused an admiration and a boundless enthusiasm among lay Romanians for archaeology". Alexandru D. Xenopol stated: "The theory of this author
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Dacians would have coagulated the first civilization of the humankind shows that we deal with a product of chauvinism, not with a product of science". In other words, Pârvan and Xenopol have rejected his book "as a dilettantish and chauvinist fantasy".
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