Ilon Gábor: Szombathely őskori településtörténetének vázlata (Szombathely, 2004)

Őskorunk 2. several-thousand-year period unambiguously had directions to the Central-European region rather then those of the Eastern-South-Eastern ones. Of course, we should not forget about the impulses of the latter territories, which however had lost importance the same way as the strikes of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire diminished in this region. Force and stress were rather on the features of the peoples of the Central European zone. This approach is especially true commencing the Bronze Age and justified by the apperance of the Bell Beaker Culture, the expansion of GâtaWieselburg Culture and by the Litzen Ceramics and burial mounds. The procedures had accelerated in the Late Bronze Age via the Urnfield Culture, whilst the same tendency remained in the centuries of the Eastern Hallstatt Culture and the Celts. The expansion of the Roman Empire had terminated such Central-European oriented definiteness and allowed the South-South-Western connection (Borostyánkő-út = Amber Road) to become a primary one, that had been a latent, yet existing one for thousands of years before. 101