At a time when metal resources were becoming widely traded and bronze weapons came to dominate the battlefields of Europe, a horizon of massive fortifications emerged in the Carpathian basin. This is an opportunity to explore one of the best preserved of these Late Bronze Age (ca. 1400-800 BC) fortifications and the prehistory of this important centre of innovation in prehistoric Europe. We also have the good fortune to have an exceptionally well preserved Neolithic village (ca. 5000-4400 BC) immediately beside the late Bronze Age fortification, which we are also excavating in 2019. 

Together with students from University College Dublin, University of Cardiff and the University of Belgrade, participants get hands on experience and dedicated instruction in excavation and post-excavation methods. Evening lectures and Saturday practical seminars provide further experiences in the European prehistory and specialist archaeological activities (including, for example, palaeobotany, zooarchaeology and lithics studies). 

There is an opportunity to work on a Neolithic settlement dating from the seventh to fifth millennia BC and a Bronze Age fortified site dating to ca. 1500-800 BC. 

The Bronze Age element of the project is a component of a wider research project exploring the collapse of Bronze Age societies in Europe and the Mediterranean ca. 1200 BC. Further details are available on the website.