Funding and Acknowledgements
Excavating for 6 months with a fully professional team is expensive. Well over half a million US dollars were raised for 1999. The sources include Foundations and Research Councils in Britain and the United States of America (Arts and Humanities Research Board, British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, McDonald Institute, Newton Trust, Kress Foundation, Dayton Foundation, National Geographic, Stanford University). But about half of the total has been raised from corporate sponsors. The main sponsors are KoçBank, Boeing, Fiat and Visa. The Co-sponsors are Shell, GlaxoWellcome and British Airways. The long-term sponsor is Merko, and the IT sponsor Koçsistem. Other support has been provided by Eczacıbaşı, Arup, Meptur and the Turkish Friends of Çatalhöyük. The project in particular wishes to thank Ömer Koç for his continued support of the project in many ways. Assistance in fund-raising has been provided by the World Bank.
The research of the BACH team has been carried out with funding from a National Science Foundation senior research grant (SBR-9805755) and assistance from the Archaeological Research Facility of UC Berkeley and the University Research Apprentice Program of the UC Berkeley.
The project works in Turkey with a permit from the Ministry of Culture, General-Directorate of Monuments and Museums, and under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to Dr Roger Matthews and Mrs Gülgün Kazan of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and Ms Gina Coulthard of their London office for all their help and support throughout the whole year. We wish to thank our government representatives - Osman Ermişler, Recep Okçu, Edip Özgür, Candan Nalbantoğlu, Sema Dayan, Lütfi Önel. Much local support has been provided by the Çumra belediye başkanı and kaymakam.