The Carpatho-Danubian space bears the oldest vestiges of man’s existence and activities in Europe, indicating its belonging to the vast area of anthropogenesis.In Valcea County, at Bugiulesti, an important number of animal bones leads back to the Villafranchian period. Human osteological remains found at Ohaba Ponor Cave (two hand phalanxes and a foot one) belonging to Homo sapiens neanderthalensis speak of a different historical period.

The Cave of the Crow, once a settlement near today’s Brosteni, Gorj County, dated with radioactive carbon, proved to have been inhabited 47,550 years ago. Obviously, we cannot say much about these remote ancestors of the Carpatho-Danubian people. Yet, some of the most tragic moments in the history of the Carpatho-Danubian Space began the moment the historians-politicians tried to manipulate the past.