Shahmardan N. Amirov^1,*, Rabadan G. Magomedov^2,**, Maksim Yu. Menshikov^1,***, Natalia Yu. Petrova^1,****, Lydia A. Gusak^3,*****, Murtada Hashim^4,******, Mahmud Mohsen^4,*******, and Rua Saad^4,********

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, DFSRC RAS, Makhachkala, Russia
³Novgorod State University, Russia
⁴State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Amara, Iraq

*E-mail: shahmardan@mail.ru
**E-mail: mag-rabadan@yandex.ru
***E-mail: maxim-menshikov@yandex.ru
****E-mail: petrovanatalya7@mail.ru
*****E-mail:lika.gusak@gmail.ru
******E-mail:murtadhaalaarajy@gmail.com
*******E-mail:mhmoodmohsin330@gmail.com
********E-mail:roaa1987saad@gmail.com

Keywords: Mesopotamian alluvium, Fertile Crescent, painted pottery, Ubaid II culture, periodization of the Deh Luran Plain culture, Hazine period, Mehmeh period, Bayat period.

The article considers frequent and individual finds collected during the 2024 field season at the Tell Wajef settlement located in Maysan Governorate of Southern Iraq, on the border with Iran. The ob­tained collection makes it possible to form a preliminary idea of the material culture of the settlement during the late Neolithic and recorded historical period. Due to the proximity of the site to the Zagros Mountains, with the absolute quantitative dominance of Southern Mesopotamian pottery of the Ubaid 2 period, numerous imports from the Deh Luran Plain were also found there mainly dated to the Me­hmeh period. The appearance of the material culture suggests a certain syncretism of the settlement’s culture, which distinguishes it to some extent from the synchronous settlements of the alluvial plain of Southern Mesopotamia.