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.
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Michilimackinac
Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Culture Keywords
Historic •
African American •
Euroamerican •
Spanish •
French-Canadian
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Collections Research •
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Environment Research
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Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
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19th and 20th centuries •
Contemporary
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- Assessing Environmental Impacts on Shipwreck Sites: Results & Lessons Learned from the 2009-2012 Gulf of Mexico Shipwreck Study (2013)
- Assessing Healthcare amid World War II Incarceration (2019)
- Assessing the Damage and Remaining Archeological Potential of Commercially Salvaged Sites Mozambique Island: the case of São Sebastião fortress wrecks. (2017)
- Assessing the Long Term Stability of Underwater Archaeological Conservation Techniques (2014)
- Assessing the Value and Potential of Labor Archaeology: A Description of the Labor Archaeology of the Industrial Era National Historic Landmark Theme Study (2015)
- Assigning Site Function: An Archaeological Investigation of the Fickling Settlement at Dixie Plantation in Hollywood, SC (2014)
- At Home in the City: reflections on theoretical and methodological approaches to contemporary homeless heritage (2016)
- "At Rest," the Pima Lodge 10, Improved Order of Red Men Cemetery Plot in Tucson, Arizona. (2016)
- At Risk in Delaware: Nature and Culture in Conflict (2019)
- At the Crossroads of Consumption: 19th Century Slave Life in Western Tennessee (2015)
- At the Crossroads: Intersections of Colonization (2018)
- At the limits of the colonial world: a brief analysis of missionary springs and water sources (2014)
- At the Margins of the Plantation: An Archaeology of the ‘Poor Whites’ of Barbados (2014)
- "At this point there was terrible firing, and half of the Englishmen...were slain": The Rearguard Action at the Battle of Brandywine, 11 September 1777 - A comparative dialogic of Captain Ewald's battlefield experience as a function of terrain analysis in battlefield study bridging the semantic and the semiotic of a battlespace. (2016)
- "Athens of the Ozarks": The Archaeology of Cane Hill College, Arkansas's First University (2019)
- Atlanta's Legacy: The MARTA Collection (2018)
- Atlantic Traverses, Contrastive Illuminations (2015)
- Attempting to Reconstruct a French Colonial Settlement on the Alabama Frontier: Geophysical Investigations at Fort Toulouse (2014)
- Augmented, Hyper-mediated and IRL (2018)
- The Aura of Things: Locating Authenticity and the Power of Objects (2016)
- The Australian Historic Shipwreck Preservation Project: in-situ preservation techniques for wooden shipwrecks (2015)
- "The Awakening Came with the Railroad": The history and archaeology of Southern Oregon’s Chinese Railroad Workers (2018)
- B-24 Liberator Aircraft: Survey Results and Partnerships for Upcoming Recovery Project (2017)
- Back in Black Bottom: The Changing Form of African American Burial Practices in a North Carolina Cemetery (2013)
- Background For Luna: Archaeology At The University Of West Florida (2017)
- The Backyard Shipwreck: The 2017 Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Field School Exploration Of A Shipwreck in Basin Harbor (2018)
- Bajo Hornos Reef, Veracruz: a depositional trap for ships and related cultural material (2013)
- Balancing Acts: Public Access and Archaeology in the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District (2015)
- Balancing with Guns: Establishing an Integrated Conservation Priority for Artillery from Site 31CR314, Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (2016)
- Ballast or Just Another Rock? Using XRF to Source Basalt Cobbles from Bridgetown, Antigua (2019)
- Balls, Cocks, and Coquettes: The Dissonance of Washington’s Youth (2018)
- Bang Bang! Cannons, Carronades, and the Gun Carriage from the Storm Wreck (2016)
- Bark in the Fosse? The Implications of Birch Bark Remains at an 18th Century Fort Site. (2013)
- Barriers to Access, or the Ways Racism Continues (2015)
- Basin Harbor Wreck Field School 2018 (2019)
- Basques and Iroquoians in the St. Lawrence Basin: recent documentary data (2014)
- The Basques in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1530-1760: An archaeological overview (2014)
- Battle for the Castle: A Post-Medieval Approach to Castle Studies (2013)
- The Battle of Caulk’s Field, Kent County, Maryland (2014)
- The Battle of KS-520: Results from a survey of a WWII battlefield off North Carolina's coast. (2018)
- The Battle of La Hougue, 1692: A portrait of the early French Navy of Colbert (2019)
- Battle of Midway: 2017's Exploration for Sunken Aircraft (2018)
- The Battle of the Atlantic, Torpedo Junction, and the Archaeological Record: The Battle of the Atlantic Research and Expedition Group’s Campaign 2021 (2017)
- Battle of the Gulf: Archaeological Investigations in the other American Theater of World War II U-boat Operations (2015)
- Battle of the Wabash 1791 - Using Archaeological results to support GIS Data Modeling and further Historical Research (2014)
- The Battle of the Wabash and The Battle of Fort Recovery: GIS Data Modeling and Landscape Analysis (2016)
- The Battle of the Wabash and The Battle of Fort Recovery: Public Interpretation and Education (2017)
- Battlefield Topography: An analysis of Lt. General Ewald’s first hand account of his observations of the action on Washington’s right flank at the Battle of Brandywine - An ethnographic view of command decision on an eighteenth century battlefield (2014)
- The Battlefields Are the Only Thing We Have: Archaeology, Race, and Thanatourism in the Trans-Mississippi South (2017)
- Battlespace: Battlefield Archaeological Applications of Modern Strategic Training Models (2016)
- Baudrillard in Castroville, Texas: Traces of Contemporary America in the Biry/Tschirhart Families’ Home (2017)
- The Bay of Storms and Tavern of the Seas: Risk and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Harbour at Cape Town (2015)
- Be Polite, Be Professional, But Have A Plan To Not Kill Every Shipwreck You Meet: Fusing Traditional Methods, and Cutting-Edge Geospatial Modeling to Adaptively Manage a Maritime Cultural Landscape Under Siege. (2018)
- Bead Biographies: Exploring the Movement of Glass Beads in Colonial California (2018)
- Bead trade in the latter Atlantic world: A case study of 19th century sites in The Gambia, West Africa (2015)
- Beads, Burials, and African Diaspora Archaeology: Documenting a Pattern of Black and White Bead Use within African-American Mortuary Contexts (2018)
- Bear’s Oil, Hair Dye, and Chemicals: Bottles from a Civil War Photograph Gallery, Camp Nelson, KY (2019)
- Beating the Bounds (2013)
- The Beauty of Artifacts: A Study of Gendered Artifacts on a Student Led Campus Excavation (2015)
- Becoming Brooklyn (2014)
- Becoming the ‘other’?: Exploring mimetic practice in the Ulster Plantation (2013)
- Becoming Urban – Emerging Urban Food Culture in Early Modern Tornio, Northern Finland (2013)
- Bed Load: An Archaeological Investigation of the Sediment Matrix at the H.L. Hunley Site (2016)
- Bed, Breakfast, and Alcohol: An examination of the Pend d’Oreille Hotel in Sandpoint, Idaho (2016)
- Beech Grove Soldiers Said They Were "Living Fat," And Archaeological Evidence Elaborates (2018)
- The Beeswax Wreck Project: The First 10 Years. (2017)
- Before the Emergence of the Modern World (2018)
- Before The War: A Japanese Family in Downtown San Luis Obispo, California (2018)
- Beginning a Career in Public Archaeology. (2019)
- The Beginning of the End - An Economic Impact Analysis on Late 19th-Century Charcoal Production in the Roberts Mountains of Eureka County, Nevada (2018)
- Behind Closed Doors: An Introduction and Case Study from a 19th-century Boston brothel (2014)
- Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: The Intersectionality of Gender, Whiteness, and Reproductive Health (2017)
- Being A 'Good' Girl: Crafting Gender in Indian Residential Schools (2015)
- Being A ‘Good’ Girl: Crafting Gender in Indian Residential Schools (2014)
- Being Intendant in New France, a Step Forward in a Cursus Honorum? (2015)
- Below sea-level. Combining Palaeolithic and Underwater Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. (2013)
- Beneath the Dome: An Archaeological Investigation of Falmouth, Jamaica’s “Phoenix Foundry” (2014)
- Beneath the Parking Lot: Centuries of History at Gloucester Point (2018)
- The Benefits of Educating Young Professionals about Archaeological Conservation (2013)
- Bermuda in Microcosm: The Smiths Island Archaeology Project, 1610-2014 (2015)
- The Best Kept Secrets in Archaeology: The numbers no one knows, but everyone talks about. (2015)
- Best Practices for 3D Recordation and Visualization of Historical Archaeological Sites (2018)
- Best Practices for Managing UCH on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (2015)
- "A Better and Surer Food Supply": Promoting Foodways in the US Federal Education System for Alaska Natives, ca. 1884-1960 (2018)
- The "Better sort" and the "Poorer Sort": Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1807 (2013)
- Between City and Country: New 'Urban' Landscapes of the Industrial Period (2013)
- Between consumption and extermination: archaeologies of modern imperialism (2013)
- Between Continents, Between Cities: Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in Stanford, California (2018)
- Between Desert and Oasis: Historic Irrigation Systems in the Western United States (2015)
- Between Dirt and Digital: Finding New Ways to Record Old Stuff! (2015)
- Between Ideals and Reality: The Modernization of Southern Agriculture - 1830 to 1865 (2016)
- Between the Devil and the Deep Red Tape (2018)
- Between the dream and the conquest: settlement and daily life of the Portuguese in North Africa (15th-16th centuries) (2013)
- Between the Mythic and the Material: Texas Exceptionalism and Early Austin History (2017)
- Between the South Sea and the Mountainous Ridges: Coerced Assemblages and Biopolitical Ecologies in the Spanish Colonial Americas (2016)
- "Beware of All Houses Not Recommended": Sensory Experience and Commercial Success of a Nineteenth-Century Boston Brothel (2015)
- "A Bewildering Variety" : A Material Culture Approach to Pearlware Hollow Forms (2015)
- Beyond Battlefields: Incorporating Social Contexts into Military Sites (2017)
- Beyond Change and Continuity, Beyond Historical Archaeology (2014)
- Beyond Data Collection and Hands-On Experience: The Importance and Effects of Engaging Students in Archaeological Research (2019)