Studies.newshttps://studies.news/Research, read from the paper. Explained for everyone. Free, forever.Near Iași, archaeologists dug up the largest known Cucuteni pottery kiln: 7.5 square metres of firing floor, 12 cubic metres, 6,000 years oldhttps://studies.news/a/ursoaia-kiln-largest-cucuteni-pottery-kiln/https://studies.news/a/ursoaia-kiln-largest-cucuteni-pottery-kiln/2026-09-13T10:00:00ZA magnetic survey in 2024 revealed a settlement of nearly 8 hectares at Ursoaia, north-eastern Romania, with some 60 burnt houses and at least eight kilns. Excavation in 2025 uncovered one of them. Known Cucuteni kilns have firing floors of 2 to 4 square metres; the largest until now had 4.8. This one has about 7.5. Published in Antiquity, open access, by an all-Romanian team.What mining meant at Roșia Montană, as the people there remember it: a study from Alba Iulia interviewed seven priests and surveyed 327 locals, including 45 who were relocatedhttps://studies.news/a/rosia-montana-mining-memory-priests-study/https://studies.news/a/rosia-montana-mining-memory-priests-study/2026-09-13T09:00:00ZFour researchers from the University of Alba Iulia traced how the meaning of mining changed at Romania's most contested gold site across four eras: late communism, the years after 1989 up to the closure of the state mine, the Roșia Montană Gold Corporation project, and what remained after the company withdrew. Their finding: under communism the mine was remembered not just as a workplace but as a source of order, prestige and identity; the transition brought moral ambivalence; the corporate years polarised the community. Open access, and no newsroom covered it.