The Department conducts research into the Bronze Age and early Iron Age in Europe. Its staff carries out studies in the following fields:

• Chronology and periodization of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age
• Early and older Bronze Age in Poland
• Great cemeteries of Urnfield culture
• Settlement processes and structures in the Carpathians
• Settlements and dynamics of cultural changes in the northern foreland of the Moravian Gate
• Bronze Age and early Iron Age settlement structures in West Małopolska
• Bronze relics and the cultural activity of Bronze Age and early Iron Age communities
• Bronze Age and early Iron Age settlements in South Poland
• Cultural links between the basins of Vistula and Oder rivers and the Carpathian Basin
• East European nomads (Cimmerians, Scythians) and their pressure on settled communities in Central Europe
• Nomads of the Great Steppe: the history and culture
• Cultural change processes during the Subatlantic climate shift
• Economy and construction in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age communities in Poland
• Origins and expansion of cremation in Central and South-East Europe