Prof. Igor Manzura

Department of History, Archaeology and Museology, National Museum of History of Moldova, Chișinău

Professor Manzura is a prehistoric archaeologist and a graduate of the Faculty of History at the University of Chișinău (1983). He obtained his doctorate from the Institute of Archaeology in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg) in 1990. He is one of the founders of the Higher School of Anthropology in Chișinău, where he served as a Professor until 2018. Professor Manzura currently serves as a Senior Researcher at the Department of History, Archaeology and Museology at the National Museum of History of Moldova in Chișinău.

His research focuses on the archaeology and prehistory of Southeastern and Eastern Europe during the Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Ages. He is particularly interested in archaeological social reconstructions and Indo-European mythology. In recent years, Professor Manzura has published extensively on funerary traditions, social identities, elite formation, and intercultural interactions in prehistoric Eastern Europe. His work includes both individual and collaborative research, with notable contributions to international journals such as Stratum plus, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Tyragetia, Das Altertum, Godišnjak/Jahrbuch and Nature.

Professor Manzura is a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute.