Figure 1

Investigation area. Orange dots represent surveyed sites in the Mesopotamian floodplain. The solid red rectangle is a selected test area in Maysan. All the displayed data fall under the condition of fair use utilization of geographical data for academic purposes. The list of all relevant data/software provider(s) is as follows: (i) original maps creation under the Section 5 of Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs’ terms of use (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/product/print-rights); (ii) maps display achieved with an open source software, under the GNU licenses of QGIS (https://qgis.org/en/site/) and QuickMapsServices (https://github.com/nextgis/quickmapservices); (iii) final maps elaboration achieved with a software developed by the authors and available at (https://bit.ly/NSR_floodplains).