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This article is about 13 tumults, 2 simple tombs and a terrace tomb, which is considered to be built in the Archaic and Early Classical Period, found in Muğla, Fethiye County, Patlangıç Mahallesi, Karapınar, which is one of the latest discoveries of the oldest known cemetery typology of the Western Lykia Region. In the framework of our reviews, the grave typology of the Karapınar Necropolis has been tried to be determined, the typological characteristics between the various derivatives of these graves have been examined, the analogy of the stone tumules of the Lykia region has been tried to be compared. There are three different types of tombs in the Karapınar Necropolis. 1 . Types of tombs are the totalities surrounded by a bordour of small, polygonal stones, where the monuments are kept in the forefront. 2nd Type tombs are simple tombs, which are partly opened to natural spaces on the main rocky floor or partly opened to the main rocky floor or partly covered with cutting stones, formed in a rotating shape, formed by the closure of defined places in different depths with stone sheets, with weaker indications for the living. and 3. The type of tombs are made up of tomb rooms with a rotating wall, rotated along the rotating curves of the palms where they are located. With our research in the Karapınar Necropolis, it aims to provide new data to the chronological development of the Lykia dead burial tradition, the construction technique and the settlement pattern, and to contribute to the information on the subject.