Eagle attached to two stags
Obeïd - IIIe front century J. - C. (bronzes)
Their culture, known as of Obeïd, the name of the site where she was discovered, is of Neolithic type. Obeïdiens practice hydroagriculture, cultivate the barley and the corn, know the date palm, raise bovids, the porcine ones, capridés and practice fishing. They produce a domestic ceramics consisting of vases and modelled and painted ustensils geometrical or figurative reasons. In clay, they also carve small anthropomorphic figurines measuring from 15 to 20 cm height and whose capped bitumen heads present a very marked reptilian aspect.
Not having metal resources, they use terra cotta sickles interfered quartz as well as stone hoes. Their contacts with the outside world are limited to a modest bitumen and obsidian importation.
Low Mésopotamie being deprived as much of timber than of stone of good quality, its inhabitants benefit from local materials: ground, reeds and probably wood of palm tree.
In the field of architecture, one allots the invention to them as of this time of the arc, the dome, the column and even of the barrel vault. In Eridou and Such el-Oueili, archeology revealed a uniform architecture, little differentiated tombs and funerary furniture.