Özet:

In the present study, the patterns of usage and development, their role in the settlement arrangement and, sphere of influence/ catchment area in regard to size of the farmstead settlements, which were recorded in the territoria of the two demoi- Phoinix and Tymnos, respectively lying in the south and middle sector of the Bozburun Peninsula are queried, for the time period between the Late Classical era and Late Antiquity. The farmsteads, which were run by the natives in the Classical period and continued in the shade of the Rhodian State during the Hellenistic age, formed the backbone of the Karian elite economy It seems that the majority of the sites bound up with the terrace economy were designed according to the geographical and climatological critera. Large scale individual samples of the early period were situated in order to supervise the production and surplus in the immediate environment and audit the revenues while smaller constructions, which used the flexibility offered by the khora on the other hand, later period structures, that changed pursuant to the conditions of the political economy, were positioned sporadically, nonetheless at regular intervals, in analogy to the satellite settlements, also with intend to steer for seasonal agriculture.