Early Hungarian history is a research area with scarce written sources. Archaeology, as a scientific discipline boasting
a rapidly increasing number of sources, may acquire significant importance in this area. Nevertheless, thorough knowledge
about the contemporary, significant archaeological differences between the Eastern European grassy and forest steppes, forest
regions, and the microregions of the former makes it possible to research migration with traditional archaeological methods.
For archaeology, the fundamental question about early Hungarian history has been the same to this day: from the archaeological
finds of the territory stretching from the Urals to the Carpathian Basin. One of them proceeds from the Urals towards the
Carpathians, referred to as the linear method, while the other takes the 10th-century heritage of the Carpathian Basin as a point
of departure and looks for the Eastern European antecedents – this is the retrospective method