FUNDING AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In 2002, 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. The main sponsors are Koçbank and Boeing. Other sponsors are Shell, British Airways, Thames Water, Koçsistem, and the long term sponsor is Merko. In Britain support has been provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. In America funding has been received from Stanford University, the National Science Foundation, including the Research Experience for Undergraduates programme, the U.C. Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility and MACTIA. Generous private donations have been made by John Coker. In Poland thanks are due to the University of Poznan, and the Polish Academy of Science. Other support is provided by the Friends of Çatalhöyük and the Turkish Friends of Çatalhöyük. Special thanks is extended to Ömer Koç for his continued support of the project.
The project works under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, with permission from the Turkish Ministry of culture. The project is grateful to Alpay Pasinli (Anitlar ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlügü) and to our temsilciler from the Kültür Bakanligi, Rahmi Asal from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum and Yasar Yilmaz from the Konya Ethnographic Museum.
Much gratitude is also due to Necip Mutlu, Konya Cultural Director, Erdogan Erol, the Director of Konya Museums and all the staff at the Konya Archaeological Museum, Konya Ethnographic Museum and Konya Mevlana Museum. Much support of the project is provided by politicians and officials in the local town of Çumra, especially the Belediye Baskani Zeki Türker and the Kaymakam Osman Taskan.
We would like to thank the staff at the BIAA, both in London and in Ankara; Hugh Elton, Gina Coulthard and Gülgün Kazan in particular for their continued help and support. The project and all team members are hugely grateful to our camp manger, Melih Pekperdahçi for tackling the many, varied and demanding tasks in this essential role. We are as ever very grateful to the Konya Vali, Ahmet Kayhan. We would like to thank Arif Kutluca, Manager of Koçbank, Konya branch and all the staff, our accountant in Konya Ahmet Içyar and his staff. Many, many thanks to Asim Kaplan from Karavan, a great friend and supporter of the project. The British Embassy in Ankara continues to provide support including the storage of material between seasons. In 2001 the project again benefited from the enthusiastic help provided by a number of students sent to us by Prof. Levent Zoroglu from Selçuk University, Konya, and other Turkish universities. The project is of course as ever indebted to our site custodians Mustafa and Hasan Tokyagsun, Ibrahim Eken, Sadet Kuscuoglu and all our local staff.