The Dacians: Rome\'s Greatest Enemy?

[Nathan Ross]

Can anyone recommend a good intro to Dacian society, social structure, economy, etc.?

MacKendrick's The Dacian Stones Speak, mentioned above, is actually a pretty good primer on ancient Dacia generally, although it dates from 1975 and keeps Trajan's war centre stage.

Hanson's Roman Dacia: the making of a provincial society (Journal of Roman Archaeology 2004) is brief but detailed, by a very credible author. The focus, as the title suggests, is mainly on the Romanisation of the province rather than the pre-Roman indigenous peoples.

Ioana Oltean's Dacia: Landscape, Colonization, Romanization (2007) builds on Hanson's work but concentrates on native settlements in a single area, going deeply into the archaeology and ethnography.