FIELD RESEARCH OF THE IRAQI-RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION AT THE SETTLEMENT OF TELL WADJEF IN SOUTHERN IRAQ (General characteristics of the settlement, its stratigraphy and elements of planigraphy)

Cover Page

Cite item

Full Text

Open Access Open Access
Restricted Access Access granted
Restricted Access Subscription or Fee Access

Abstract

The article discusses some results of the research of the 2024 field season at Tell Wajef settlement in Maysan Governorate, southern Iraq, on the border of the Fertile Crescent zone and the alluvial plain of Mesopotamia. The excavations were focused primarily on the study of the settlement stratigraphy. The trench made across the northern slope of the tell revealed deposits of the Sumerian period and of the late period of the ceramic Neolithic. The syncretism of the material culture of the site is its unique feature resulting from its geographical proximity, on the one hand, to the alluvial plain of Southern Mesopotamia, and on the other hand, to the Zagros Mountains. While the material culture of the site is dominated by Ubaid features, there are significant traces of influences from the Zagros region.

About the authors

Shahmardan N. Amirov

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: shahmardan@mail.ru
Moscow, Russia

Alexei I. Jankowski-Diakonoff

Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Email: jankowski-diakonoff@yandex.ru
Moscow, Russia

Rabadan G. Magomedov

Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography DFRC RAS

Email: mag-rabadan@yandex.ru
Makhachkala, Russia

Maksim Yu. Menshikov

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: maxim-menshikov@yandex.ru
Moscow, Russia

Natalia Yu. Petrova

Institute of Archaeology RAS

Email: petrovanatalya7@mail.ru
Moscow, Russia

Lydia A. Gusak

Novgorod State University

Email: lika.gusak@gmail.ru
Russia

Murtada Hashim

State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities

Email: murtadhadiaraty@gmail.com
Amara, Iraq

Mahmud Mohsen

State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities

Email: mhmoodmoisin330@gmail.com
Amara, Iraq

Rua Saad

State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities

Email: roaa1987sada@gmail.com
Amara, Iraq

References

  1. Амиров Ш.Н. Хабурская степь Северной Месопотамии в IV – первой половине III тыс. до н.э. М.: Таус, 2010. 412 с.
  2. Амиров Ш.Н. Месопотамско-Кавказские связи в IV– III тыс. до н.э. в свете климатических флуктуаций // Краткие сообщения Института археологии. 2014. Вып. 233. С. 3–17.
  3. Амиров Ш.Н. Культурный процесс и климатические флуктуации эпохи раннего и среднего голоцена на Переднем Востоке, на примере Южного Леванта и Северной Месопотамии // Краткие сообщения Института археологии. 2018. Вып. 250. С. 173–193.
  4. Данциг Б.М. Ирак: Краткий географический очерк. М.: Географгиз, 1955. 135 с.
  5. Данциг Б.М. Ирак в прошлом и настоящем. М.: Восточная литература, 1960. 256 с.
  6. Хмиш В.Х., Синиченко Е.К. Проблемы и препятствия, с которыми сталкиваются водные ресурсы в Ираке // Инновации и инвестиции. 2021. № 12. C. 113–120.
  7. Хмиш В.Х., Синиченко Е.К., Ветрова Н.М. Особенности экологических параметров коротких рек Ирака // Строительство и техногенная безопасность. 2023. № 29 (81). C. 135–143.
  8. Al-Abadi A.M.A. Hydrological and hydrogeological analysis of northeastern Maysan governorate in southern Iraq using a geographic information system: PhD thesis / Department of Geology, College of Sciences, University of Baghdad. 2011.
  9. Day J., Goodman R., Chen Zh., Hunter R., Giosan L., Wang Y. Deltas in Arid Environments // Water. 2021. 13. 1677. https://doi.org/0.3390/w13121677
  10. Hole F., Flannery K.V., Neely J.A. Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain, an Early Village Sequence from Khuzistan, Iran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, 1969. 440 p.

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML
Download

Copyright (c) 2025 Russian Academy of Sciences