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Százhalombatta Excavation Project

Project overview

The Bronze Age site of Százhalombatta is situated on the right bank of the Danube, 30km south of Budapest in Hungary. It is one of the largest temperate tell settlements from this period in Central Europe.

Excavation at the site, directed by Dr Magdolna Vicze (Hungarian National Museum), Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (University of Cambridge), and Professor Joanna Sofaer (University of Southampton), is ongoing. Investigations are producing substantial new data revealing a detailed and hitherto unknown picture of Bronze Age life from 2000-1400BC.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Joanna Sofaer

Professor of Archaeology

Research interests

  • The role of cultural and community assets in health and wellbeing
  • The relationship between heritage and wellbeing
  • The social value of archaeology 
Connect with Joanna

Email: J.R.Sofaer-Derevenski@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Creativity, learning and the ‘arts of doing’
Joanna Sofaer, 2017
Type: conference
Technical innovation and practice in Eneolithic and Bronze Age encrusted ceramics in the Carpathian Basin, Middle and Lower Danube
Joanna Sofaer & Stephen Roberts, 2016, Archaologische Korrespondenzblatt, 46(4), 479-496
Type: article
Creativity in the settlement at the Bronze Age Tell as Százhalombatta, Hungary
Joanna Sofaer, 2015
Type: conference
Hierarchical or not? How can we interpret Bronze Age Tells?
J. Sofaer, M.L.S Sørensen & M Vicze, 2015
Type: conference
Living and learning on a Bronze Age Tell
Joanna Sofaer, 2014
Type: conference