The excavations at Kurban Höyük were carried out by Dr. Leon Marfoe from 1980 till 1984. hree cultural layers were identified in this mound, 5000 - 3000 BC - Chalcolithic, 3000 - 2000 BC Early Bronze Age and 2000 - 1500 BC- MBA.
See:
- Kurban Höyük-http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=2015&html=ages_detail_t.html&layout=web
- Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia, Volume 2: The Stratigraphic Sequence at Kurban Höyük, Oriental Institute Publications (OIP), 1990
- L. Marfoe, “Kurban Höyük1982” Anatolian Studies33, 1983:pp. 253–254.