The Elbistan Karahöyük site was inhabited as early as Early Breonze Age. It flourished during the MBA and was an important site through LBA and Iron Age,
See:
- Ali Çifçi, 2015–2020 Excavations at Elbistan Karahöyük and Hamzatepe: A Hittite Settlement and its Cemetery in the Elbistan Plain, in: The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume IV: Recent Discoveries (2018–2020) 2021
- idem: “Archaeological. Journeys. in. the. Plain. of. Elbistan. and. the Excavation of Karahöyük”, Belleten, 12 (1948), 232-237 . https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin-pdf/871/eng