Funding and Acknowledgements
In 2001, 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 and the Wainwright Trust. In America funding has been received from the Flora Foundation and Stanford University, the National Science Foundation, including the Research Experience for Undergraduates programme, the U.C. Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility and the University Research Apprentice programme. Generous private donations have been made by John Coker and Mary Settegast. In Poland thanks are due to the Highway Rescue Archaeology Project, Euro-Pol-Gaz S.A. 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 (Anıtlar ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü) and to our temsilciler from the Kültür Bakanlığı, Dursun Çaglar from Eskişehir Museum, Nejat Atar from Ankara Ethnographic Museum, Yaşar Bey and Ahmet Ekmekçioğlu from Konya Museum.
Much gratitude is also due to Erdoğan Erol, the Director of Konya Museums and the museum assistants. and as ever thanks to the Director of the Konya Museums, Erdoğan Erol and all the staff at the Konya Archae-ological Museum, Konya Ethnographical 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 Başkanı Zeki Türker and the Kaymakam Osman Bilgin.
We would like to thank the staff at the BIAA, both in London and in Ankara, 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 mangers, Melih and Tolga Pekperdahçı 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 thanks Aydın Kimyonşen, Manager of Koçbank, Konya branch and all the staff, our accountant in Konya Ahmet İçyar and his staff. Many, many thanks to Asim Kaplan from Karavan, a great friend and supporter of the project for organising another Dervish event in the site Visitor Centre, as well as an evening of Turkish music. 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 Zoroğlu from Selçuk University, Konya, and other Turkish universities. The project is of course as ever indebted to our site custodians Mustafa and Hasan Tokyağsun, Sadettin Kuşçuoğlu, Ibrahim Eken and all our local staff.