Bándi Gábor – Burger Alice – Fülep Ferenc – Kiss Attila: Baranya története az őskortól az Árpád-korig. (A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Füzetei 15. Pécs, 1973.)
THE HISTORY OF COUNTY BARANYA FROM THE PREHISTORY TO THE ÁRPÁDIAN AGES ROOM I The first settlers of the Late Stone Age in Southern Transdanubia are called the People of the Linear Pottery. The groups of this population living on vast territories in Central Europe came to our area from the north. The settlements on the ridge of hills along the shore can be found as far as the Drava. At the beginning of the Copper Age a peculiar culture of Balkan characteristics was spread from the Bosna valley as far as Bavaria, that is called in our territory Lengyel People. The first groups of the new people of southern origin arrived at the settlements of the original inhabitants, who produced the linear pottery, in the third millennium B. C. After the slow northward proceeding of the Lengyel people, new groups of people infiltrated into Southern Transdanubia from the northwestern regions of the Balkan. The invaders are called after the most significant area of their settlements Balaton Group. Little is yet known about their life and customs. The historical events of the Near-Eastern high cultures set in motion also the peoples on the borderlands of the Balkan around 2100 B.C. In that time the second greater migration reached Southern Transdanubia from the south, since the invasion of the Lengyel people. Judging by the number of the settlements the people, who is called after its first definite site Pécel Culture, occupied the areas of the Balaton group in vast masses. ROOM II The independent life of the Pécel people in Transdanubia lasted hardly two hundred years. The turn of the second millennium B.C. brought about new changes in the Mediterranean region. New peoples invaded Asia Minor, which compelled the groups of people living on the Balkan to flee northward and then indirectly set them in motion. In that time the peoples of the Lower Danube district also moved off, perhaps as the eastern branch of the same events, to settle down in new territories. By the appearance of these groups coming from two directions a new period began in Transdanubia: the Bronze Age. The invaders quickly occupied the territories of the Pécel people. Their goups spread all over Transdanubia and reached the Moravian basin in the north. Their close relations invaded the vast territories of the Carpathian basin as well. The new-comers are called Zok People after their important site. J 9
