This chapter describes aspects of the excavation, recording and sampling methodologies practised in the BACH project. We introduce issues that become the focus of later chapters, including the methodology of constructing the life-history of the buildings, using the evidence of stratigraphic and micro-stratigraphic analysis and detailed spatial analysis of residues, artifacts and features. Other issues include the development of digital recording techniques, extrapolation of data from the house to the neighborhood and beyond, and the planned destiny of the excavated area and its physical data. We discuss our acceptance of the standard practices of excavation, recording, and reflexive archaeology at Çatalhöyük, drawing attention at the same time to differences created by our backgrounds in the archaeology of Southeast Europe. Differences include organization of labor and a few deviations from strict single-context excavation. We describe in detail the process and personnel of excavation, recording, documentation, sampling, analysis, and interpretation used in the BACH Areas, and how these changed through time.

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Introduction

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