International Conference on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials

(ICOM-WOAM)




The 11th ICOM-CC conference on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials will take place at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, USA on 24th-29th of May 2010.

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Cheaper rate registration closes February 28.

WOAM 2010 will be hosted by East Carolina University, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. In addition to paper and poster sessions there will be lots of opportunity to meet with others and talk conservation - including at social events and tours. There wil be a pre-conference field trip to Pettigrew State Park, North Carolina, where dugout log canoes, ranging in date from 2400 B.C. to 1400 A.D. were discovered in 1985, in Lake Phelps. Tour options include a day trip to Beaufort, North Carolina (including visit to NC Maritime Museum, Fort Macon and the beach, and a longer tour to historic sites at Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg and then to the Mariners Museum and the Monitor Conservation Labs in Newport News, Virginia.

Updates:

Abstracts have been added to the Program page (05.14.10)
Information has been added to the Program page (02.09.10)
Information has been added to the Program page (11.26.09)
Information has been added to the Publications page (11.24.09)

Information has been added to the Registration page (11.12.09)

Information has been added to the Contact page (11.12.09)

Information has been added to the Time Table page (11.06.09)
Information has been added to the Time Table page (10.07.09)
Travel and Accomodation information has been added to the Practical Information page (09.18.09)



Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources


ICOM WOAM 2010