Reconstructing the life-histories of buildings at Çatalhöyük: city or village?

* The architecture at Çatalhöyük (and the architecture of Central Anatolian Neolithic in general) gives the impression of a honeycomb of attached rooms. In the excavation terminology at Çatalhöyük these are "spaces"), like Pueblo architecture in the SW USA. James Mellaart suggested that the rooms that were excavated in a particular "building horizon" at Çatalhöyük were occupied simultaneously, implying a densely occupied settlement - even a "city". Many authors have accepted this claim. The BACH project in conjunction with the "Cambridge" team does not accept such simultaneous occupation as a given but makes it a topic to be investigated

How do they investigate this?

Reconstruction of Building Horizon VIb at Çatalhöyük according to J. Mellaart's interpretation