On the northern slopes of the Euphrates, a large cemetery was found between Pulur-Sakyol and Yeniköy Mounds, where the 3rd millennium BC settlements are located, and the area covered by it could have not been calculated yet. In this gigantic cemetery, which was unearthed due to the recession of dam waters, besides the stone cist, simple soil and pithos type tombs, the practice of burying pithos into stone cist is observed as well. As a result of the first research conducted, no findings have been found other than Kura- Araxes type terracotta pots, bone objects and a few ornaments, giving the impression that these tombs belong to the common use of the non-elite people of both mounds.

The terracotta pots exhibiting the Kura-Araxes influence show that the people of both mounds were in some way in contact with people from distant geographies. Considering also the graves of elites, which can be located in a different place of the cemetery or of the settlements in the two mounds, it can be predicted that there might be a social status difference within the society. This cemetery not only plays a key role in enlightening the burial customs of the Eastern Anatolia Region during the Kura-Araxes period but also has the potential to provide important information about the social, economic and international organizations of the peoples. This article puts forth the preliminary report of the first researches on the Kura-Araxes graves of Körkuyular between Pulur-Sakyol and Yeniköy.