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Living and learning on the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta

I will be giving a lecture at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, Croatia on 20th November 2014. My talk, entitled Living and Learning on the Bronze Age Tell at Százhalombatta, discusses some of the finds and interpretations of the excavations at this important site which she co-directs with Dr Magdolna Vicze (Matrica Museum) and Dr Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (University of Cambridge). Continue reading →

Another post card from Százhalombatta , Hungary

For 3 weeks in July students from the University of Southampton were working alongside those from Budapest, Cambridge, and Pecs excavating the Middle Bronze Age Tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. This season’s work focused on understanding the next phase in the settlement history, marked by the disappearance of the major houses (that we first found some years ago) and the road through the settlement. Continue reading →

Postcard from Hungary

Greetings from Hungary! Students from the University of Southampton have begun excavating for 3 weeks at the important Bronze Age tell settlement at Százhalombatta, 30km south of Budapest on the River Danube. They form part of an Anglo-Hungarian project directed by Magdolna Vicze (Director of the Matrica Museum), Joanna Sofaer (University of Southampton) and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (University of Cambridge). Continue reading →