Reconstructing the life-histories of buildings at Çatalhöyük: building horizons

James Mellaart, in keeping with traditional methodology of excavating and interpreting archaeological architecture, grouped the individual events of building construction and abandonment into "building horizons". We think that these individual events are significant in the lives of people as well as houses. In the BACH project, we treat each "space" as a separate entity, with a life-history (excavated as a sequence of depositional events) and spatial configuration that is unique. We assume that each house will provide significantly different evidence on location, construction, occupation, modification, destruction and abandonment, "replacement" or "rebirth".

How does the BACH team investigate this?