Institute of Archaeology

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