Society for Historical Archaeology
This collection contains the abstracts and presentations from the Society for Historical Archaeology annual meetings. SHA has partnered with Digital Antiquity to archive their annual conference abstracts and make the presentations available. This collection contains meeting abstracts and presentations dating from 2013 to the present.
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Formed in 1967, the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (A.D. 1400-present). The main focus of the society is the era since the beginning of European exploration. SHA promotes scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledge concerning historical archaeology. The society is specifically concerned with the identification, excavation, interpretation, and conservation of sites and materials on land and underwater. Geographically the society emphasizes the New World, but also includes European exploration and settlement in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Ethical principles of the society are set forth in Article VII of SHA’s Bylaws and specified in a statement adopted on June 21 2003.
Site Name Keywords
20EM52 •
Michilimackinac •
41HR614 •
38GN3
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Archaeological Feature •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
Commercial or Industrial Structures •
Factory / Workshop •
Non-Domestic Structures •
Military Structure •
Fort
Other Keywords
Landscape •
Shipwreck •
Slavery •
Public Archaeology •
Colonialism •
Plantation •
Ceramics •
Identity •
Material Culture •
Shipwrecks
Culture Keywords
Historic •
African American •
Euroamerican •
Spanish •
French-Canadian •
18th century artillery
Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Archaeological Overview •
Collections Research •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Historic Background Research •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Environment Research •
Heritage Management
Material Types
Metal •
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Bone •
Flora •
coffin hardware •
jet •
moonshine still
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
18th Century •
20th Century •
17th Century •
Nineteenth Century •
Historic •
Colonial •
Early 19th Century •
Contemporary •
19th and 20th centuries
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
Michigan (State / Territory) •
Massachusetts (State / Territory) •
New York (State / Territory) •
New Hampshire (State / Territory) •
Idaho (State / Territory) •
Maine (State / Territory) •
Wisconsin (State / Territory) •
Washington (State / Territory) •
Minnesota (State / Territory)
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- African-American In-Ground Vaults: An Investigation Into Differential Burial Practices Identified Through A Public Archaeology Initiative (2016)
- Africans were not alone. A view over African experience and expression in relation to other ‘subaltern’ groups (2014)
- Afro-Brazilian Spaces of Worship: Late Nineteenth Century Archaeological Findings from Salvador, Bahia (2018)
- Afrodescendientes en el Ferrocarril del Norte: Memorias y Materialidad de Pueblos Fantasmas del Valle del Mira (Carchi - Ecuador) (2014)
- After the Gear is Gone: Perspectives from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology on How Archaeologists Implement Digital Instances of Past Peoples and Scientific Concepts (2018)
- After the Golden Spike: Over 150 years of Maintenance and Preservation along the Promontory Branch of the Central Pacific Railroad Grade (2020)
- After the Railroad: An examination of Chinese in Sandpoint, Idaho (2017)
- After They Drove Old Dixie Down: Identity and Isolation in a Southwestern Oregon Mountain Refuge (2014)
- Afterlives of Slavery on the Post-Emancipation Caribbean Plantation (2017)
- Against All Odds: The British Siege and the Spanish Defense of Cartagena in 1741 and the Interpretation of Spanish Shipwrecks (2014)
- The Age of Consumption: A Study of Consumer (and Producer) Behavior and the Household (2013)
- Agents, Africans and Agriculture: The Transplantation of British Nobility in Early Carolina (2014)
- Agricultural Practices in the Upper Casamance Region, Senegal, 7th-19th Centuries AD: Archaeobotanical Results from Payoungou and Korop (2018)
- Agriculture As Impetus For Culture Contact In Carolina During The 1670s (2016)
- Aiding Archaeological Site Interpretation through Soil Geochemistry (2016)
- Aircraft Recovery for Education: Lessons Learned by The National Naval Aviation Museum. (2019)
- The Alamo Underground: Recent Excavations at Mission San Antonio de Valero (2018)
- Albania Ancient Shipwreck Project (2020)
- Albert’s Corset? A Queer Approach to Middle-Range Theory (2020)
- Alcohol and Drinking in Historical Archaeological Perspective (2013)
- The Alexandria Archaeological Protection Code: Managing Archaeology within the Framework of City Development (2017)
- Alien invasions: modernization and the dispersal of insect pests in Iceland (2014)
- All change down on the allotment: York’s allotment gardens and urban transition (2013)
- All Inclusive: an Archaeological Investigation and Material Analysis of Tabby Remains at Middle Place Plantation (9CH158), Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia (2017)
- All of the Above: Public Archeology and Outreach at Independence National Historical Park (2016)
- All The Single Ladies: Queering Race In The 19th Century Through The Materiality of African-American Female-Headed Households (2015)
- All the Small Things: An Analysis of Small Finds at James Madison’s Montpelier Plantation (2015)
- "All the Usual Improvements": Rediscovering the Plantation Landscape at James Monroe’s Highland (2018)
- "All The Usual Improvements": Understanding The Plantation Landscape At Ash Lawn-Highland (2016)
- All the Vaults of the City Cemeteries are Piled High with Coffins: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (2020)
- All the Yards a Market: Bones of Dissent and the Seed of Reproduction (2015)
- All Them Ditches: The Spanish Colonial Water Management System of San Antonio de Bexar (2017)
- All was left in complete order: a first look at the wreck of HMS Erebus (2016)
- ‘Allah the Divider’ was Lost in the Public House: A Pocketknife with Arabic Inscriptions from Colonial Brunswick Town (2014)
- Allensworth: An Archaeological Exploration of Health Management (2020)
- Alles Vergeht, Alles Verweht: Orphaned Heritage of Denmark’s Atlantic Wall. (2020)
- All’s Well That Ends Well: The Re-Examination of Drayton Hall’s South Flanker Well (2015)
- Alone in the Deep Blue Sea: A comparison of Indonesian Colonial Period nutmeg plantations and New World plantations (2015)
- Alsatian Foodways in 19th Century Texas: A Faunal Analysis of Remains from the Biry House Excavations (2017)
- Alternative Methods To Using Sucrose In Wood Conservation (2020)
- AMEC E&I Archaeological Investigation Results: DhRr-74 "Kikayt Village Site" (2015)
- Amelia Earhart Versus Castaway Cobbler, The Notorious Bones Of Nikumaroro Island (2019)
- "America in Tears." The Revolutionary Foundations of National Identity Narratives. (2020)
- America Loses a Star and Stripe. The First Full-Scale Battle of the Southern Winter Campaign of 1778-1779, the Battle of Brier Creek, Georgia. (2016)
- An American Dilemma: The Archaeology of Race Riots Past, Present, and Future (2016)
- American Disruptive Archaeologies: The Theory and Practice of Punk (2015)
- American Forts and Dakota Burial Mounds: Landscapes of Mourning and Dominion at the Boundaries of Colonialist Expansion (2015)
- The American Fur Company's Industrial Fishing Experiment On Isle Royale (2019)
- American Made: The Development of Ethnic Identities, Racism, and Economic Growth of the Young American Republic (2016)
- American Stoneware, What it Looks Like from an 18th Century Point of View (2016)
- America’s Forgotten World War II Battlefield (2020)
- America’s ‘Haven of Health’: Health and Recreation at Turn of the Century Excelsior Springs, Missouri (2018)
- Analyses and Research: the Warwick, Bermuda 1619 (2014)
- Analysis and Interpretation of Cannon Assemblages Near Carysfort Reef, Florida Keys (2020)
- An Analysis of American and British Ordnance from the 1781 Siege of Star Fort at Ninety Six, South Carolina (2020)
- Analysis Of Amidships On The Emanuel Point II Shipwreck (2017)
- Analysis Of Artefacts From The Portuguese Nau Esmeralda (1503) (2018)
- Analysis of Ash and Slag Deposits at George Washington's Mount Vernon (2019)
- An Analysis of Barrel Components Excavated from the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck (2020)
- An Analysis of Cut Glass Collected from an Excavation of Lindenwood University’s Former Garbage Dump (2016)
- Analysis of Mollusks from the Slave Village at Betty’s Hope, Antigua, British West Indies (2016)
- Analysis of Pipe Stems Recovered from Excavations of the 17th Century Structures at Eyreville (44NH0507) on Virginia's Eastern Shore. (2020)
- Analysis of Pipe Stems Recovered from Excavations of the 17th Century Structures at Eyreville (44NH0507) on Virginia's Eastern Shore. (2020)
- Analysis of Québec shipwrecks: the necessity of integrating local divers to improve the management of maritime heritage (2018)
- Analysis Of The Building Floor Of A French Colonial Structure In St. Charles, Missouri (2018)
- Analysis of the faunal remains from a 19th century Aku property in Banjul, The Gambia (2016)
- An Analysis of the Reasons behind the Increase in Speed of Dutch and British Ships, 1750-1830 (2018)
- An Analysis of the Slave Village site at St. Nicholas Abbey (2015)
- An Analysis of Tools from Hanna's Town (2016)
- Analysis of Two Sherds Recovered from an Underwater Site along the Atlantic Coast of Terra del Fuego, Argentina (2020)
- Analysis of Unidentified Ceramics in Historic Saint Charles, Missouri (2018)
- Analytical Chemistry and Archaeological Collections: A Case Study on the Continuing Research Value of Previously Excavated Materials. (2017)
- Analyzing Color in Historic Refined Earthenwares Using Spectrophotometry (2013)
- Analyzing Nineteenth-Century Steamboat Rudders on Lake Champlain: Using Photogrammetric Modeling to Aid the Archaeological Process (2016)
- Analyzing personal narratives across disciplines: examples from nineteenth century Minnesota (2015)
- Anarchy in the New-Found-Land: Winter Houses and Decentralized Power in the Rural North Atlantic (2017)
- Anarchy in the UK (2015)
- Anatomy of a 16th-century Spanish galleon: The evolution of the hull design (2017)
- The Anatomy of a Standoff: Searching for Pearl Royal Hendrickson (2020)
- The Ancestors Speak: Community-Based Paleogenomics (2020)
- An Anchor in the Mesa Top: Reexamining Who Settled the West (2018)
- ANCHOR Program: Promoting Sustainable Diving on our Nation's Underwater Cultural Heritage (2016)
- Anchors Through History: The Case of Lagos, Portugal. (2016)
- The Ancient Mesambria Field School in Underwater Archaeology: Synergy Between Scientists, Students, and Managers in Benefit of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage (2020)
- "And Fill It Solidly With Brushwood and Earth or Such of Them As Would Suit Him Best": 18th and 19th Century Landmaking in Alexandria, VA (2019)
- "And the Land Is Not Well Populated": The End of Prehistory on Pensacola Bay (2017)
- And what about French Clay Pipes? (2014)
- And why would you want to study that? Reflections on Post-Conquest Archaeology (2017)
- The Angela Site (2018)
- The Angela Site: Exploring Race, Diversity, and Community in EarlyJamestown (2020)
- Anglo-American Ceramics As Social Medium (2018)
- Anglo-Native Interaction in Virginia’s Potomac River Valley (2018)
- Anglo-Native Interactions in Context: A Discussion of "Anglo-Native Zones" at the Country’s House Site (2019)
- Animal Husbandry, Hunting, and Fishing on the Lower Cape Fear: Analysis of Colonial and Civil War Era Animal Remains from Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson (2016)
- Animal Landscapes of the Lowcountry: Evidence from Drayton Hall (2014)
- Animals and Humans in Post-medieval York: A View From Hungate (2013)
- Animals, science and empire: London’s animals as scientific objects (2013)
- Anona: Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Re-Purposing of an Early 20th Century Steam Yacht. (2016)
- Another Brick in the Wall: A Pedagogical Approach to Excavations at a 19th -century Brickyard (2018)
- Another Look at Fort Ouiatenon: Native-European Creolization and the Frontier Meat Diet (2014)