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This paper analyses the glass vessels and mosaic beads with face masks from sites of the Sântana de Mureş-Chernyakhov culture in Eastern Romania, i. e. Vaslui County. 84 glass vessels of different types are listed in the database (developed according to the project Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum), dating from the end of the 3rd to the beginning of the 5th century AD (especially the Kowalk and conical faceted beakers). In the cemetery of Bârlad-Valea Seacă was found the largest number of glass vessels (50 %). Only by continuing with such complete catalogues for all the neighbouring regions we can get an overview of the socio-economic relations, the technologies and the area's trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes archaeological excavations in the Bandkeramik settlement of Olteni in Transylvania. Remains of early Neolithic longhouses were discovered, which are the first evidence of such structures in Romania. The ceramic finds allow dating the site to the later Notenkopf phase of the Linearbandkeramik. In addition, Olteni yielded the most extensive collection of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculptures in the entire Eastern Bandkeramik milieu. The excavations also included traces of the Boian and Precucuteni I cultures, as well as an Iron Age cemetery. [Extracted from the article]