Ion Horațiu Crișan

Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.

He conducted research in South-Eastern and Central Europe, focusing on Geto-Dacians and Celts.

He has been was very involved with the research at the archaeological site called Şanţul Mare (The Big Ditch), 7 km from Pecica, Arad County, Romania.

He placed the Dacian settlement Ziridava, mentioned by Ptolemy in his Geographia,[1][2] at this location with a high degree of certainty.

[3] He wrote a book named Ziridava - The digs from "Șanțul Mare" from 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, focused on the archaeological digs performed in 1960s at this ancient city.