Internet Archaeology 10 Currie Acknowledgements

8.0 Acknowledgements

First and foremost my thanks go to the Leverhulme Trust who made this work possible through the funding of an Institutional Fellowship held at the Department of Archaeology, the University of York. Grateful thanks also go to the owner of Hacienda Zuleta: Galo Plaza and also to his nephew Fernando Polanco for their interest in the project and for facilitating the programme of work on their property. I should also like to thank Patricia Mothes and Minard Hall for assisting in the programme of research by analysing the volcanic ash samples from the study sites, and to Patricia Estévez de Romero working in the Depto. de Química of the Museo del Banco Central in Quito for undertaking the phosphate concentration analysis of sediments from the study sites. Thanks also to the many people who readily assisted me during my visits to the different museums and collections in Ibarra and Quito. From the Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural I should like to thank, as always, the Director Embajador Hernán Guarderas, and Dra Mónica Bolaños for their continued interest and enthusiasm for the work and for expediting the necessary bureaucratic procedures with the minimum complications and delays. Santiago Ontaneda L., also working at the Museo del Banco Central in Quito and in Ibarra was particularly helpful and supportive to my several requests for assistance. Gregory Knapp and Stephen Athens both kindly supplied me with helpful suggestions, comments and shared insights during the course of writing this paper and I would like to offer both my thanks. Kate and Howard Clark provided much-valued logistical and moral support in Ecuador and I thank Kate for her help at different stages of the project fieldwork. Last, but not least, the success of the fieldwork programme is largely owing to the hard work and ability of Ecuadorean archaeologist Freddy Acuña A., to whom I offer my sincerest thanks.