Ion Niculiţă

Ion Niculiță (27 May 1939 – 2 January 2022) was a Moldovan professor of archaeology, known for his contributions to the field of thracology. He was a relative of the Romanian archaeologist Vasile Pârvan.

Academic career Returning to Moldova he was appointed lecturer in the Ancient and Medieval History Department. Advancing through the ranks, he became Chair of Archaeology and Ancient History in 1984, and between 1993 and 2002 he was Dean of the Faculty of History. In 1991 he obtained his habilitation in history for the work "Northern Thracians in the 6th through 1st Centuries BC".

Between 1963 and 1968 he worked as assistant to the chair of universal history at the Faculty of History, and 1968–1971 he was a PhD student of archeology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, studying under such teachers as B. Rybakov, B. Grakov, A. Arcyhovskii, V. Janin, F. Kyzlasov, A. Meliukova and I. Jacenko. His thesis, submitted in 1972, was about the Getae east of the Carpathians in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.