ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The project works under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, with a permit from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The project is grateful to the Director General of Monuments and Museums, Orhan Düzgün and to our temsilci Kazim Mertok.

The main sponsors are Koçbank and Boeing. Our long term sponsors are Shell and Merko, and other sponsors are Thames Water and IBM. Our main institutional partner and sponsor is Selcuk University. In Britain support has been provided by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, and University College London. In America funding has been received from the Global Heritage Fund, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, MACTiA, and Lynn Meskell, Columbia University, has generously supported the project's database development. Private donations have been made by John Coker. In Poland thanks are due to the University of Poznan, and the Polish Heritage Council. Other support is provided by the Friends of Çatalhöyük and the Turkish Friends of Çatalhöyük, and we are grateful as ever to Jimmy and Arlette Mellaart. Special thanks are extended to Ömer Koç for his continued support of the project.

The other institutional partners of the project are Cambridge University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, University College London, The Museum of London, Poznan University, Istanbul University, Middle East Technical University (Ankara).

The team from Istanbul is sponsored by Coca Cola, Konya Ticaret Odasi, Kosiad Konya Sanayici ve Isadamlari Dernegi, Konya Valisi and Çumra Kaymakami.