Figure 26: The dig house in the evening light in September, seen from the East Mound
Funding and Acknowledgements
In 2000, funding for the project and its associated Teams has come from Foundations and Research Councils in Britain and the United States of America as well as corporate sponsorship. In Britain we would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Board, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the Isaac Newton Trust, the University of Edinburgh Development Trust and the Wainwright Trust for their support of the Project. In America funding was received from the Flora Family Foundation and Stanford University, the National Science Foundation, including the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, the U.C. Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility and University Research Apprentice program. We would like to thank John Coker for his extremely generous donation to the project. The main corporate sponsors of the project in 2000 were KoçBank and Boeing. The co-sponsors are Shell, GlaxoWellcome and British Airways. The long-term sponsor is Merko, and the IT sponsor is Koçsistem. Other support has been provided by Arup, Meptur, the Friends of Çatalhöyük and the Turkish Friends of Çatalhöyük led by Resit Ergener. The project in particular wishes to thank Ömer Koç for his continued support of the project in many ways.
The project works under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and with a permit from the Ministry of Culture, General-Directorate of Monuments and Museums. We are particularly indebted to Alpay Pasinli and Roger Matthews for their help and support. Our government representatives this year were Enver Akgün, Vahap Kaya, Şengül Salman and Naci Bakırcı who all proved very helpful.
We would like to thank the staff at the BIAA, both in London and in Ankara, and Gina Coulthard and Gülgün Kazan in particular for their continual help and support. The project and all team members are hugely grateful to our camp mangers, Tolga Pekperdahçı and Hüsnü Tayanç for tackling the many, varied and demanding tasks in this often thankless role. We are as ever very grateful to the Konya Vali, Ahmet Kayhan. Invaluable support was given throughout the season from Osman Siviloğlu, Konya Minister of Culture, Ayhan Alp, Director of the Konya Koruma Kurulu, Konya Roleve Office, Çumra Belediye Başkan and the staff there, Çumra Kaymakam and Head of the Jandarma, Aydın Kimyonşen, Manager of Koçbank, Konya branch and all the staff, our accountant in Konya Ahmet İçyar and his staff and as ever thanks to the Director of the Konya Museums, Erdoğan Erol and all the staff at the Konya Archaeological Museum, Konya Ethnographical Museum and Konya Mevlana Museum. Many, many thanks to Asim Kaplan, from Karavan, a great friend and supporter of the project who aided us through the logistical problem of washing one of the site shelters in desperate need of maintenance, as well as always being on hand to entertain the team, the highlight of which was a Dervish event in the site Visitors Centre. The British Embassy in Ankara continues to provide support including the storage of material between seasons. In 2000 the project again benefited from the enthusiastic help provided by a number of students sent to us by Prof. Levent Zoroğlu from Selçuk University, Konya, and other Turkish universities. The project is of course as ever indebted to our site custodians Mustafa Tokyağsun and Sadettin Dural and all our local staff.