The vestiges discovered in Moldova cannot be dated exactly because the state does not have money to pay for related researches and there are no other sponsorships, professor Ion Tentiuc, who heads the archeology department of the National Museum of Archeology and History, told Info-Prim Neo. The exact date of the vestiges can be determined by bombarding the samples with atoms. The Moldovan scientists signed an agreement with the Bucharest-based Institute of Atomic Physics, which will open such a laboratory later this year or at the start of next year. There are research centers in Kiev and Saint Petersbourg, but they can misjudge the time by even 500 years so that it is not worth spending by €100 for dating a sample. Modern centers work in Cambridge, Berlin, Kiel, but the prices there are very high. It costs about €500 to examine a sample. Usually, a sample should be examined two or three times before being dated. As the scientists in Moldova do not have financing and modern laboratories, they use traditional dating methods such as vertical successive stratigraphic analyses and numismatic analyses. Veaceslav Bicbaiev, another specialist of the National Museum of Archeology and History of Moldova, analyzes airphotocopies that show archeological sites divided into fields. Most of the plans present human settlements from the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Trypillian culture. Unfortunately, said the expert, there is not enough money to take more pictures from the plane or at least to analyze them on the spot. The northern part is the most suitable for research as the fields there are not intensively cultivated and the vestiges have not been destroyed. But the Museum cannot cover the trips to those places and most of the researchers work out of passion and enthusiasm, Veaceslav Bicbaiev said. Under the law, each construction in an old area of the town must be accompanied by the archeological assessment of the land from the foundation. A construction authorization is issued after these data are registered and the old traces are recovered. But in most of the cases, this obligation is simply ignored, say archeologists.