Strategy:

In the framework of the strategy of IMA-CAM commission, the sub-commission CAM-CHAM aims to co-ordinate and organize conferences, seminars, workshops and short-courses devoted to Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Materials, in particular ceramics and ceramic coating, glass, metals, pigments, plasters and other building materials. The scope is to emphasize the role that mineralogy plays and could play in studying these materials and to encourage interaction between mineralogist and other people working in the Cultural Heritage field, archaeologist, physicians, chemists and art historians.

37th International Symposium on Archaeometry to be held in Siena, Italy, 12-16 May 2008. Invitation letter from Isabella Memmi (1st February 2007).
Complementary information on the Symposium from the following website: http://www.unisi.it/eventi/isa2008/

In prep. IMA-CAM-CHAM short courses by Isabella Memmi:
Non-conventional analytical techniques in archaeological material characterization
Roman and late-antique productive sites in Mediterranean area".