Károlyi Mária: A korai rézkor emlékei Vas megyében (Szombathely, 1992)
This establishment could have been explained by incomplete researches as well, however the situation has not been changed even today after several excavations and surface surveys, we have no obsidian implements deriving from our prehistoric sites yet. Sooner or later we have to find the real reason of the absence of the local trade of obsidian. At the settlement of Se the lithic materials' majority (ca.65 %) arrived at the settlement from a little distance, from the raw material sources being at a distance of about 50-60 km. The several stone materials found at the houses and used perhaps at building of houses and for other household purposes derived from a distance even less, from the Vas-mountain and Mountains of Kőszeg being at a distance of about 10 km. At the same time a significant part (35 %) of the lithic materials used for tool-making is of strange origin, in the researchers' opinion it derives presumably from the Karavankák 46 . The distance of the place of origin is well above 100 km, and during the researches even farther relations have been uncovered. In the layers expanding over the circular ditch of the settlement at Sé (Sé-3rd period) we have found the sherds of the typically ornamented vessels of the Dalmatian Hvar culture and their appearances at Sé are the proofs of some type of connection with this remote area. Besides the proofs of the connections with the remote South the number of facts proving the connections with the North is also increasing. In 1983, south-east of Prague in the neighbourhood of Kolin, a head-fragment of a female idol was found on the surface of a settlement of the Stroked Pottery culture. Although its publisher counted the find as a part of the Moravian painted pottery 47 , the head-fragment worked out with meticulous care is nearly the exact reproduction of our best head-fragment decorated with fine motifs and unearthed at Sé, therefore presumably it derives from our region. According to the publishment of the Czech researches marble bracelets were made in the Late Neolithic period in the neighbourhood of Kolin, which were supplied as far as 400 km as the objects of an exchange of commodities 48 . We have already found obvious proofs of the long-distance trade and other relating connections of the early Lengyel period in our area. The examinations of the early Lengyel find collections have certified that in south the closest connection was formed with the Sopot culture while in north with the culture of the Moravian painted pottery. It seems as if in the late Lengyel period our find collections were connected with the late material of the Moravian painted pottery and with the Slovenian find collections of similar ages even more closely. Obviously other commercial routes and relationships also elaborated the situation, yet is seems we can speak about a region the cultures of which 92
