Upcoming Events
Spring 2010
ARCHEM director Andrew Koh is team teaching Introduction to Archaeological Science at MIT's Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology. Check out the course syllabus.
Summer 2009
The ARCHEM team completed another successful season in Greece and Israel. Check us out in the Tel Kabri Preliminary Report.
Spring 2009
Dr. Koh wil be presenting "Riding the Wind Leuconotus: An Investigation of Creto-Cyrenean Trade" at the 2009 annual meeting of CAMWS.
Winter 2009
Dr. Koh presented "From A to B: Reconstructing the Supply Route of a Late Minoan Perfumed Oil Workshop" at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the AIA.
Fall 2008
Dr. Koh presented "The ARCHEM Project: A Five-Year Retrospective" at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Summer 2008
The ARCHEM team completed a successful summer season in Greece and made its way to Israel for the first time. Check the latest edition of the KENTRO newsletter for the report.
Spring 2008
Dr. Koh was the keynote speaker for the XIVth Annual Graduate Symposium on the Ancient Mediterranean World, sponsored by Florida State University's Department of Classics.
Dr. Koh presented a paper, "CSI Crete: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aegean Archaeology", at the Western Michigan Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
ARCHEM presented a paper, "Imports and Exports from an LMI Urban Manufacturing Center, Mochlos Building C.7," at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Fall 2007
Koh returned to Crete in October to initiate a collaboration with the Museum of Cretan Ethnology Research Centre.
Summer 2007
The ARCHEM team members (Andrew Koh, Jennifer Meyer and Thomas Harwood) completed a successful summer season in East Crete. View their blog and report.
Press
Read the April/May issue of in Chemistry, magazine of the American Chemical Society, where Andrew Koh provides an in-depth story about ARCHEM and the applications of science in archaeology.
Read "The Sweet Smell of Archaeology," a synopsis of The American Scholar article cited below. This is found in the Utne Reader, a digest of what Utne feels to be the most "compelling, delightfully written stories, interviews and cultural criticism" from the world's press.
The American Scholar, the magazine of Phi Beta Kappa, recently published an article on Koh's work entitled "On History's Scent."
Reviews
Read a review of the ARCHEM website by a subject specialist of Intute, an online service provided by a consortium of seven UK universities, led by the University of Oxford, to pinpoint the best web resources for education and research.
