4. It was Iron and Horses that lead allowed Urnfield Culture to develop into Celtic
Advanced Bronze working was not the only metallurgical secret to escape from the Hittites. The Anatolian civilization had been practicing ironworking since 1500 BC. But once the Hittite empire collapsed, the secret was out. Ironworking first entered Europe with the Cimmerians, a nomadic warrior culture from Turkey that settled along the Black Sea. In the eighth century BC, the Cimmerians began to migrate into eastern Europe, and it was then that Urnfield culture learned the secrets of Ironworking — and horsemanship. Wagons and the occasional horse started to appear in Urnfield graves in Czechoslovakia and Germany, demonstrating the growing importance of the horse — and cultural change. New iron weapons also began to appear, which the emerging new culture began to use to secure the best lands and resources. The Celtic culture had begun.