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The Holocene fluvial history of rivers draining the Romanian Carpathians has been assessed using a database resulting from the authors’ own field research at more than 50 sites comprising natural exposures (riverbanks), anthropogenic exposures (gravel pits) and manual boreholes carried out in floodplains, as well as on the analysis of over 30 published sources. Thus, 196 dated fluvial units were obtained, of which, subsequent to filtering, 142 units were retained for application of Cumulative Probability Functions (CPFs). To this database we added 274 radiocarbon-dated lacustrine sedimentary units originating in small lakes and bogs linked to the fluvial network of the study area. The resulting data bases were classified, processed and analysed under the methodological framework of meta-analysis in order to reconstruct the phases of geomorphic activity of rivers during major flood events and periods of low …