Question: What was the predominant Western and Central European culture of Early Iron Age Europe from the 8th to 6th centuries BC that  the lakeside village of Hallstatt, Austria is considered the model ?
Context: The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European culture of Early Iron Age Europe from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of its area by the La Tène culture.  It is commonly associated with Proto-Celtic and Celtic populations in the Western Hallstatt zone and with (pre-)Illyrians in the eastern Hallstatt zone. The Khodzhaly-Kedabek culture (also "Khojaly-Gadabay" and variants (Azerbaijani: ' Xocalı-Gədəbəy mədəniyyəti, Russian ходжалы-кедабекская культура ), also known as the Gandzha-Karabakh culture (ганджа-карабахская культура) is an archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (roughly 13th to 7th centuries BC) in the Karabakh region of Transcaucasia.  The eponymous sites are at Khojaly, Gadabay and Ganja in Azerbaijan. Woolsbarrow Hillfort is a hillfort on Bloxworth Heath in the district of Purbeck in the county of Dorset, England.  It dates to the period from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (8th - 5th centuries BC) and is classed as an ancient monument. The term pre-Celtic refers to the period in the prehistory of Central and Western Europe postdating the emergence of the Proto-Celtic language and cultures and predating the expansion of the Celts or their culture in Iron Age Europe and Anatolia (9th to 6th centuries BC).  The area involved is that of the maximum extent of the Celtic languages in about the mid 1st century BC.  The extent to which Celtic language, culture and genetics coincided and interacted during this period remains very uncertain and controversial. Ancient Greek includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.  It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period (9th to 6th centuries BC), Classical period (5th and 4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic period (3rd century BC to the 6th century AD).  It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. In archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular archaeological culture.  For example, the type site of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A culture is Jericho, in the West Bank.  A type site is also often the eponym (the site after which the culture is named).  For example, the type site of the pre-Celtic/Celtic Bronze Age Hallstatt culture is the lakeside village of Hallstatt, Austria. The 10th century BC started the first day of 1000 BC and ended the last day of 901 BC.  This period followed the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Near East, and the century saw the Early Iron Age take hold there.  The Greek Dark Ages which had come about in 1200 BC continued.  The Neo-Assyrian Empire is established towards the end of the 10th century BC.  In the Iron Age in India, the Vedic period is ongoing.  In China, the Zhou dynasty is in power.  Bronze Age Europe continued with Urnfield culture.  Japan was inhabited by an evolving hunter-gatherer society during the Jōmon period. The Bronze and Iron Age cultures in Poland are known mainly from archeological research.  Early Bronze Age cultures in Poland begun around 2300–2400 BCE, while the Iron Age commenced in approximately 700–750 BCE.  The Iron Age archeological cultures no longer existed by the start of the Common Era.  The subject of the ethnicity and linguistic affiliation of the groups living in central and eastern Europe at that time is, given the absence of written records, speculative, and accordingly there is considerable disagreement.  In Poland the Lusatian culture, spanning both the Bronze and Iron Ages, became particularly prominent.  The most famous archeological finding from that period is the Biskupin fortified settlement (gord) on the lake from which it takes its name, representing the Lusatian culture of the early Iron Age. The Illyrian Tombs of Selca e Poshtme () are located near the town of Pogradec in Albania near the village of "Selcë e Poshtme".  On the right bank of the river Shkumbin at an elevation of 1040 m above sea level, lie the remains of the ancient city of Pelion and the accompanying necropolis.  The Roman Via Egnatia led past it towards Thessaloniki.  Though there are traces of human activity in Neolithic times, the settlement proper dates to the Iron Age (Illyrian proto-urban) through to the Illyrian urban period (5th to 2nd centuries BC), and reached its height under settlement by the Illyrian tribe of Enchele in the later Iron Age and was also occupied in the Roman period as traces of a municipal building show.  From the 4th to 1st centuries BC the city was the royal residence of Illyrian kings and therefore, also probably an important political and economic centre.  In 1996, Albania included the Royal tombs of Selca e Poshtme in the UNESCO World heritage list of proposals. The antiquity of Architecture of Karnataka(Kannada: ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ ) can be traced to its southern Neolithic and early Iron Age, Having witnessed the architectural ideological and utilitarian transformation from shelter- ritual- religion.  Here the nomenclature ‘Architecture’ is as old as c.2000 B.C.E.  The upper or late Neolithic people in order to make their shelters, they constructed huts made of wattle and doab, that were buttressed by stone boulders, presumably having conical roof resting on the bamboo or wooden posts into red murram or paved granite chips as revealed in archaeological excavations in sites like Brhamagiri (Chitradurga district), Sanganakallu, Tekkalakota (Bellary district), Piklihal (Raichur district).  Megaliths are the dominant archaeological evidence of the early Iron Age (c. 1500 B.C.E- 100 C.E unsettled date).  There are more than 2000 early Iron Age burial sites on record, who laid the foundation for a high non perishable architecture in the form of various distinct architectural styles of stone built burials, which are ritualistic in its character.  The active religious architecture is evident 345 with that of the Kadamba Dynasty.  Karnataka is a state in the southern part of India originally known as the State of Mysore.  Over the centuries, architectural monuments within the region displayed a diversity of influences, often relaying much about the artistic trends of the rulers of twelve different dynasties.  Its architecture ranges dramatically from majestic monolith, such as the Gomateshwara, to Hindu and Jain places of worship, ruins of ancient cities, mausoleums and palaces of different architectural hue.  Mysore Kingdom (Wodeyar) rule has also given an architectural master structure in the St. Philomena's Church at Mysore (extolled by the King as a structure of divine compassion and the eager gratitude of men) which was completed in 1956, in addition to many Dravidian style architectural temples.  Two of the monuments (Pattadakal and Hampi) are listed under the UNESCO World Heritage List of 22 cultural monuments in India.  Styles of Indo-Saracenic, Renaissance, Corinthian, Hindu, Indo-Greek and Indo-British style palaces were built in Mysore, the city of palaces.  Sikh architecture at Bidar (1512) and also in Bangalore in 1956 can also be cited as having an impact on the architectural composition of the state.
Answer: Hallstatt culture