During 2007 archaeological survey of Little Zab River in Sardasht district in northwest Iran, six typical Uruk (Uruk-related) sites were brought to light. One of the important ones is Tepe Badamyar Rabat, with typical Bevelled Rim Bowls pottery that is considered as the first evidence of Uruk materials in northwest Iran. In addition to Rabat, the Uruk materials found in Tepe Baghi, Tepe Waliv, Tepe Molla Yousef, Tepe Lavin and Tepe Goman provide an opportunity for studying the one millennium gap between Hasanlu VIIIA (Pisdeli) and VIIC (Kura-Araxes) in the southern parts of Lake Urmia, which is seen as a key unknown period in the archaeology of NW Iran. The Uruk evidence found in the mentioned sites mainly belongs to the Middle and Late Uruk periods (3600/3500–3100 BC).Pri arheološkem pregledu na območju reke Malo Zab v okraju Sardasht v severozahodnem Iranu so leta 2007 odkrili šest tipičnih najdišč obdobja Uruk (oz. z Urukom povezanih najdišč). Izmed teh je najbolj pomembno najdišče Tepe Badamyar Rabat, kjer so odkrili lončene sklede s poševnim robom, ki so pomembna značilnost materiala obdobja Uruk v severozahodnem Iranu. Pomemben je tudi vpogled v najdbe obdobja Uruk z drugih najdišč Tepe Baghi, Tepe Walvin, Tepe Molla Yousef, Tepe Lavin in Tepe Goman; le-te namreč omogočajo raziskave tisočletne prekinitve med fazama Hasanlu VIIIA (Pisdeli) in VIIC (Kura-Araxes) na južnem delu jezera Urmia, ki je ključna neznanka pri preučevanju arheologije SZ Irana. Najdbe obdobja Uruk na teh najdiščih lahko datiramo v fazi srednjega do poznega obdobja Uruk (3600/3500–3100 BC)
