Rural Stock-breeding and land-use at Northwestern Anatolia (Coastal Troad): An Ethnoarchaeological View

In recent years, ethnographic research, which includes modern pastoral sites or recently abandoned, has become a curious field of archaeological research. The aim of this study was to investigate the modern material culture ethnographically as a source of archeological hypotheses about the past behaviors. Rural mixed economic activities at the coastal Troad region of ？anakkale are mainly dominated by stock-breeding. In the light of the ethnographic data such as the animal-related structures that still continue to be used today, in the same area and similar environmental factors, it is thought that the people of the region continue their similar economic exploitation of the rural land use habits like as prehistoric communities. Considering that the ethnographic data on rural land-use, rural economic factors and traditional agrarian practices of present-day behavior will contribute to our understanding of past mode of the rural economy of prehistoric societies