Dacology investigates the range of ancient Dacian culture (language, literature, history, religion, art, economics, and ethics) from c. 1000 BC up to the end of Roman rule in the 4th-7th centuries.
It is directly subordinated to Thracology, since Dacians are considered a branch of the Thracians by most mainstream research[1] and historical sources.
[2] Other theories sustain that the Daco-Thracian relation is not as strong as originally thought[3][4] and as such Dacology has the potential to evolve as an independent discipline from Thracology.
The related term Thraco-Dacology also exists, alluding to Thraco-Dacian, and one of the first uses is also from around 1980, in the Romanian government archive.
However, they have been organized by the controversial Dacianist group around Napoleon Săvescu, thus making the term Dacology synonymous with Protochronism in this ambiance.