Our participation in this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Athens has come to an end.

It was a very intensive few days filled with presentations, discussions and meetings with researchers working on the Iron Age and many other aspects of archaeology across Europe and beyond. As always, EAA proved to be an excellent opportunity not only to present our own research, but also to exchange ideas, compare different approaches and discuss current work with colleagues from many countries.

An important point in our programme was the presentation by Dr Joanna E. Markiewicz, Principal Investigator of the project, entitled:

“Who would want to live on a floodplain? A pre-Roman Iron Age settlement in Brodno, Lower Silesia (SW Poland)”

The paper was presented during the session “Living on the Edge” and focused on the settlement at Brodno in Lower Silesia – one of the key sites investigated within our project. The site provides particularly valuable evidence for studying settlement strategies, economy and adaptation to a floodplain environment during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. Athens welcomed us with plenty of archaeology, excellent discussions and rather unforgiving sunshine. Now, however, it is time to get back to normal work – and to put some of the new ideas and inspiration from EAA into practice.