The International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) advises ICOMOS and the World Heritage Committee on matters that pertain to all aspects of the management of archaeological sites and landscapes. These include formulating and propagating standards and best practices for both archaeological research and cultural resource management. Read more about ICAHM.

(ICAHM is an ICOMOS Scientific Committee. To visit the ICOMOS website, click here.)

Members of ICAHM and those who wish to join or continue as members should complete the membership form and send via email to Ian Lilley at i.lilley@uq. edu.au, or via mail to Douglas Comer, CSRM, 2113 St. Paul Street, 1st Floor, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA, or by fax at +1-410-244-6324.

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• Statement of Roles and
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12.12.11 - ICAHM Co-Presidents send an open letter of concern to the government of Hungary ICAHM views with the greatest alarm the proposed changes to Hungarian legislation... Click to download this complete message.

02.04.11 - A Message to ICAHM Members and Friends Regarding the Preservation of Sites and Antiquities in Egypt During This Time of Change ICAHM requests that members and friends of ICAHM relay our support to fellow archaeologists and preservationists in Egypt. We congratulate our Egyptian colleagues and all of the people in that proud country for the steps they have taken to safeguard their irreplaceable cultural treasures. We look forward to communicating with them directly as soon as possible, and hope that we can be of service to them in ways that they might suggest, now or in the future. Correspondence to ICAHM regarding this can be emailed to executive@icahm.icomos.org.
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08.23.09 - In the spirit of the international cooperation that is essential to our work, and in cognizance of the magnitude of work that lies before us, the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) now has two Presidents. We have been elected for a three-year term, during which our primary goal will be to reshape ICAHM along the lines set out by the Eger-Xi'an Principles. The Eger-Xi'an Principles enlarge the role that scientific committees play in ICOMOS. Read the complete message here.

02.04.2012 - ANNOUNCING ICAHM'S 2012 ANNUAL MEETING, NOVEMBER 27-30, 2012, CUZCO, PERU. CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR CUZCO CONFERENCE SITE.

11.16.2011 - Devastation of UNESCO World Heritage Site Vernazza, Italy

10.25.2011 - ICAHM Annual Meeting and First International Symposium, December 2, 2011, Institut national d'histoire de l'art In the Salle Fabri de Peiresc 6 rue des Petits-Champs 75002 Paris, France. Click here for info.

10.13.2011 - ICAHM is a co-sponsor for the First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage Archaeology. See the Call for Papers here.

08.10.2011 - NASA ROSES Space Archaeology Workshop on Research and World Heritage

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