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The major Late Neolithic site of Domuztepe is located to the south of Kahramanmaraş. Covering 20 hectares, it is primarily a Halaf site of the 6th millennium BC and is the largest known settlement of that date. The site was investigated between 1995 and 2006 by a team led by Stuart Campbell of the University of Manchester and Elizabeth Carter of the University of California, Los Angeles. Since work resumed in 2008, the excavation team has been led by Stuart Campbell of the University of Manchester and Alexandra Fletcher of the British Museum.

The site was certainly founded early in the Ceramic Neolithic but earlier occupation may well be present. By the late Halaf almost all of the 20 hectare area of the site was probably occupied. Prehistoric occupation ended towards the end of the Halaf period (c. 5450 BC). The site was reoccupied during the Hellenistic period and was occupied by a significant settlement during the first millennium AD. There is evidence for a church at this time, and a small Christian cemetery has been excavated.

The excavated part of the prehistoric sequence starts at the transition between the Ceramic Neolithic and the Early Halaf (c. 6100 BC) and continues until c. 5450 BC. The Halaf occupation has been traced in a series of trenches across the site, providing rich evidence for both circular and rectangular buildings, ceramics, stone bowls, beads, figurines, chipped stone, bone tools and stamp seals, as well as a rich assemblage of animal bones and botanical remains. Excavation has, however, concentrated on Operation I, on the summit of the southern mound. In the Early Halaf an east-west terrace was built up from red clay, with a series of occupational deposits to the south, and maintained in subsequent phases. Adjacent to the terrace, there was a large burial pit (the "Death Pit"). This pit, excavated between 1997 and 2003, was more than 3 m in diameter and about 1.5 m deep, filled with layers of disarticulated human and animal bones, broken pottery and other artefacts. The human bones included skulls of at least forty individuals.