Protochronism most likely came about with the views professed in the 1870s by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu,[REF] one of the main points of the dispute between him and the conservative Junimea.
In a neutral context, the Romanian archaeology school led by Vasile Pârvan investigated scores of previously ignored Dacian sites, which indirectly contributed to the idea's appeal at the time [REF].