The main object for this publication is one particular site in eastern Bohemia – the oppidum of ?eské Lhotice, systematically excavated in the past. By large it comprises both standard settlement and chronological analyses including the processing and typo-chronological evaluation of the collected material and settlement structure. It intends to test the whole region and particularly the oppidum surroundings suitability for the agriculture, the natural sources of the raw materials and local and distant trade conditions which would form the oppidum – open settlements interactions. Special attention is paid also to the whole region, with the network of open sites, and environmental variables which can possibly reflect the economic potential of the landscape. ——- Introduction – History of research – Topography of the site and its environmental conditions – Spatial structure of the oppidum – Fortification – Character of the settlement pattern – Material collection from the oppidum – Ceramics – Local and distance contacts – Chronology of the occupation – Late La Tène occupation of Chrudim and Pardubice regions. Idea of the predictive modeling and theoretical models in archaeology – Late La Tène occupation of eastern Bohemia – Modelling of the hinterlands, of the open settlements and the oppidum – conclusion