Garam Éva szerk.: Between East and West - History of the peoples living in hungarian lands (Guide to the Archaeological Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum; Budapest, 2005)

HALL 5 - The Iron Age: The Scythians and the Hallstatt culture (800-450 B.C.) (Tibor Kemenczei)

49. Clay urn from Nagyberki-Szalacska. 7th century B.C. excavated at Hallstatt in Austria. Transdanubia was part of the eastern Hallstatt province. On the testimony of the finds, the advances in iron metallurgy and the development of the economy, as well as the lively trade contacts with the south and west brought fundamental changes in settlement patterns and in the social fabric during the Hallstatt period. The wealth and power of the elite grew considerably. The development of the Hallstatt culture in the western half of the Carpathian Basin 73 took a different path than the one in the westem territories from the later 6th century B.C., owing to the cultural impacts from and, also, the clashes with the Scythian population in the Great Hungarian Plain. The significance of the central settlements declined and new, unfortified villages were founded. Burials in the tumulus cemeteries were discontinued. In Transdanubia, the tendency towards homo-