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Acknowledgements We thank the Archaeological Survey of India, and the Department of Archaeology, State Government of Tamil Nadu, for granting us the required permits to continue this work. We are very grateful to Dr. R. Kannan, IAS, Mr. A.V.K. Shetty, IAS, (former Commissioners) and Mr. T.S. Sridhar, I.A.S, Commissioner, Department of Archaeology, Tamil Nadu for supporting us in this work. We thank the staff, Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu for their support. We are grateful to their student trainees who participated in the excavations. We thank the District Collectors of the Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu for encouraging us in our project. Accommodation was provided by the Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology, Poondi. We are deeply grateful to Prof. N.C. Ghosh who has guided us in every aspect of this work.
Institutional and financial aid was provided by the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education. The project has also been funded at various points in time by the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council, the Leakey Foundation and the Earthwatch Institute, for which we are very grateful. We extend special thanks to our field staff, Mr. Vilvanathan, Mr. Arumugam, Mr. Babu, Mrs. Vijaya, Mrs. Bharati and Mrs. Rosamma, and to our photographers, Mr. Dhanraj and Mr. Ramesh.
We thank the French Institute, Pondicherry, who has helped us through the years. Students and volunteers have greatly aided us in the project, and we extend our thanks to all of them. In particular we thank Ms. Rhea Mitra, Mr. Saleem Sheikh, Dr. Parth Randhir Chauhan, Dr. Manoj Kumar Singh, Mr. Abdul Munaaf, Ms. Neelima Lavana, Mr. Nitin Hadap, Mrs. Shilpa Hadap, Ms. Neetu Agarwal, Ms. S.M. Sujatha, Ms. K. Madhavi, who worked at the site; and Ms. Bina Gandi Deori and Ms. Aokumla who along with Mr. Saleem Sheikh helped in artefact measurements, documentation and data entry. We thank students from the Deccan College, Pune, S.V. University, Tirupati, University of Madras, and Delhi University who participated at various times in the excavation.
We are also very grateful to Mr. V.R. Pappu, and Mrs. R. Pappu for their help and continuous advise during this project. We are grateful to the feedback provided by numerous scholars who visited the excavations. The villagers of Poondi and Krishnaveram were an indispensable part of this project.
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