We thank the General Director, Murat Süslü, and the staff at the General Directorate of Cultural Resources and Museums for their support. Help and good advice has, as usual, been provided by Melik Ayar. Thanks are also due to three successive representatives, Özge Yurdakul, Kenan Sürül and Resul İbiş as well as to the Yozgat Museum Director Hasan Şenyurt and his staff. Mehmet Erciyas, the Kerkenes Guard, has gone beyond the call of duty to assume his responsibilities in guarding the site and taking care of the project's premises. We are most grateful to the Yozgat Governor Necati Şentürk, the Yozgat Director of Culture and Tourism, Bahri Akbulut, and his successor Lutfi İbiş, Sorgun District Governor Levent Kılıç, Yozgat Mayor Yusuf Başer and Sorgun Mayor Ahmet Şimşek, who, with their staff, continue to provide every possible encouragement to the project. We are grateful for assistance from local organisations, namely the Yozgat Provincial Administration (İl Özel İdaresi), TEDAŞ and Türk Telekom. Provision of heavy equipment from the municipalities of Sorgun, Karakız, Dedefakılı, Çekerek and Belencumafakılı greatly facilitated restoration work at the Cappadocia Gate. We are deeply indebted to the village of Şahmuratlı, and to Headman Turan Baştürk, for extending traditional Anatolian hospitality. ŞAHDER, the Kerkenes and Şahmuratlı Village Association, is involved in various project activities and Osman Muratdağı assures the team mobility with his minibus.
     Based in office space provided by the Middle East Technical University, the Kerkenes Project collaborates with the Faculty of Architecture, the Faculty of Engineering, METU Museum, TAÇDAM and the Materials Conservation Laboratory and Photogrammetry Center. Research and publication of results, which progress all year round at METU, are made possible by generous donations channelled through the METU Development Foundation. The METU Computer Center provides technical assistance. Colleagues and students from the departments of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Geological Engineering as well as from graduate programs in Settlement Archaeology, Archaeometry and GGIT contribute to research and publication. Work is also in progress with colleagues from the Departments of Hydrogeology and Anthropology at Hacettepe University. The Kerkenes Project comes under the auspices of the British Institute at Ankara and we thank the director, Lutgarde Vandeput, for her continuing support. Unfortunately the project no longer qualifies for BIAA funding but we are thankful to the BIAA for facilitating fieldwork and making equipment available. There is a formal agreement with the Oriental Institute of Chicago University represented by Co-director Scott Branting. International cooperation also includes the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory of Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology at Cornell University, UC Berkeley, the University of Buffalo SUNY, Laboratoire de Géographie Physique - CNRS and the Anatolian Iron Age Ceramics Project. While conducting a survey at the nearby site of Kuşaklı, an Italian team, led by Stefania Mazzoni from the University of Florence, shared the Kerkenes Project facilities as well as information related to the region.
     Sponsors in 2010 were Andrea Dudek, an anonymous US donor, the AICC, the Anglo- Turkish Society - Bernard and Innes Burrows Memorial Award, the Archaeocommunity Foundation, the Binks Trust, the Charlotte Bonham-Carter Trust, Çimpor Yibitaş Yozgat Çimento, the Erdoğan M. Akdağ Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, MESA, METU - BAP Grant, the Oriental Institute and the Women's Board of the University of Chicago, Peter Sommer Travels, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the US Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation and Yenigün. GEOSCAN and İşlem GIS assist with software. Contributions from Andante Travel and other visitors include a donation in memory of the late C. T. Ingold for the production of the Kerkenes News 2010.
     Finally to all the team, the house staff and workers from the village of Şahmuratlı, our heartfelt thanks. Little would have been achieved without their dedication, enthusiasm and hard work.