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 •
Non-Domestic Structures •
Archaeological Feature •
Fort •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
Commercial or Industrial Structures •
Factory / Workshop •
Military Structure •
Mound / Earthwork •
Military Earthwork
Other Keywords
Landscape •
Shipwreck •
Slavery •
Public Archaeology •
Colonialism •
Plantation •
Identity •
Ceramics •
Shipwrecks •
Material Culture
Culture Keywords
Historic •
African American •
Euroamerican •
Spanish •
French-Canadian •
18th century artillery
Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Archaeological Overview •
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Collections Research •
Historic Background Research •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Environment Research •
Remote Sensing
Material Types
Metal •
Ceramic •
Fauna •
Glass •
Wood •
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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- The Best and Worst of Times: Bridging Stakeholders, Archaeologists, and Students to Craft Community Archaeology at the Robert H. Jackson Farmstead, Spring Creek, PA. (2020)
- 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 Beta Test of the North American Gunflint Inventory by Volunteer Citizen Scientists at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (2020)
- "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 Slavery and Indenture: Spatial practices, Materiality, and the Memory of Coercion on Sugar Plantations in Mauritius (2020)
- 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)
- Between The Wars: The Peacetime Garrisons of Ticonderoga (2020)
- "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)
- Beyond Diet: A Plethora of Plant Evidence from Middens at the Glen Eyrie Estate (2020)
- Beyond Guns, Soldiers, and Palisades: The Archaeology of Fort St. Joseph on the Frontier of New France (2014)
- Beyond Identification: Aviation Archaeology in the U.S. Navy (2014)
- Beyond Jane: A Tightly Dated Context of the Early Seventeenth Century (2014)
- Beyond material culture: virtual ship reconstruction (2013)
- Beyond Sugar: Rethinking Caribbean Plantation Landscapes (2014)
- Beyond the Age of Destruction – Remembering an Alternative Future at an Anti-nuclear Protest Camp (2020)
- Beyond the Bar: The Consumption of Alcohol in Productive Spaces (2018)
- Beyond the Mansion: How the Archaeology Program at a Plantation Museum Changed so Many Lives (2018)
- Beyond the Overseer’s House: Centering the Stories of the Enslaved Community at White Hill Plantation (2020)
- Beyond the pale: Inuit resistance to the Moravian reconstruction of northern Labrador (2014)
- Beyond the Patriarchy: A Feminine Examination of Montpelier's Shifting Landscape (2016)
- Beyond the Technical Report: Building public Outreach into Compliance-Driven Projects, A Case Study from Sandpoint Idaho (2016)
- Beyond the Walls: An Examination of Michilimackinac's Extramural Settlement (2016)
- Beyond the Waters’ Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina. (2015)
- The Big Data History of Archaeology: How Site Definitions and Linked Open Data Practices are Transforming our Understanding of the Historical Past (2016)
- Big Data, Human Adaptation, and Historical Archaeology: Confronting Old Problems with New Solutions (2016)
- A Big Project for a Small Submarine: H.L. Hunley, Recovery, Conservation and Interpretation (2014)
- The bigger the cow the better she is’: new archaeological perspectives on livestock ‘improvement’ in late medieval and early modern England (2013)
- The Bimeler House Restoration: A Case Study in Historic Preservation and Research Archaeology, Zoar Village, Tuscarawas County, Ohio (2014)
- The bio-sedimentation as monitor element of underwater archaeological sites of Cascais Sea (Portugal). The case of Patrão Lopes military ship. (2016)
- Bioarchaeological and Archival Investigations of the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery Collection: A Progress Report (2013)
- Bioarchaeological Evidence of the African Diaspora in Renaissance Romania (2016)
- Bioarchaeology of Burials Associated with the Elkins Site (7NC-G-174) (2016)
- The Bioarchaeology of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery Collection (51NE049), Washington, D.C. (2016)
- Biographies of Things, People, and Space at Jesuit Missions: The St. Inigoes Manor Weaver’s House (2018)
- A Biography of Place: Thinking Between Texts and Objects at the Saint Joseph Mission (Senegal) (2018)
- The Biography of Spoliation As Insight Into the Role of Urban Fortification During the Levantine Crusader Era (2020)
- Biology of a Shipwreck: Dendrogyra Cylindrus on the 1724 Guadalupe Underwater Archaeological Preserve (2019)
- The Bird-Houston Site, 1775-1920: 145 Years of Rural Delaware (2016)
- A Birds Eye View of War: The Role of Historic Maps and Aerial-Based Imagery in the Archaeological investigation of Unaccounted-For U.S. military Personnel. (2017)
- The BISC 2 Cargo (Part I)--Contributions and Questions from Ceramics Analysis: Late 18th Century Sequencing and Colonial Trade patterns (2013)
- The BISC 2 Cargo Part II--Prestige Cargo or Evidence of Colonial Dumping? An Exploration of What Key Items in BISC 2's Cargo of Ceramics May say About center/periphery trade relations in the Late North American British Empire (2013)
- Black and White and Red All Over: The Goodrich Steamer Atlanta, 1891-1906 (2017)
- The Black and White of It: Rural Tenant and African American Enslaved and Free Worker Life at the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site (2016)
- Black and Yellow: Thoughts on Crossing a Different Color Line in the American Southeast (2014)
- Black Bodies Matter: Violence Against Black Women Across the Life Course (2021)
- A Black Doll in 19th-Century Toronto (2020)
- Black Experiences within the Field of Archaeology (2014)
- Black Female Slave in the Caribbean: An Archaeological Observation on Culture (2016)
- Black Lives Matter: The Fight Against Intersectional Operations of Oppression Within Historical Archaeology (2019)
- Black Marks on Boot – Locating Shipwreck Sites With Satellite Imagery (2020)
- Black Pioneers, Indigenous Turncoats, and Confederate Officers: A Microhistory of the Oregon Territory’s Rogue River War, 1855-56 (2020)
- Black Toys, White Children: The Socialization of Children into Race and Racism, 1865-1940. (2016)
- Black Women and Post-Emancipation Diaspora: A Community of Army Laundresses at Fort Davis, Texas (2018)
- Blackbeard's Beads: An Analysis And Comparison of Glass Trade Beads From The Shipwreck 31CR314 (BUI0003) Queen Anne's Revenge Site Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina (2017)
- Blackbeard’s Beads: Insights into the Queen Anne Revenge’s Former Life as a Slaver through the Presence of Glass Trade Beads (2018)
- Blacksmithing for Fun and Profit: Archaeological Investigations at 31NH755 (2017)
- Blackwater Maritime Heritage Trail: A Model for Site Interpretation (2014)
- Blazing Trails and Chasing Scoundrels: Kathleen K. Gilmore’s contribution to Spanish Colonial Archaeology in Texas and the Relentless Pursuit of Presidio Captain Felipe Rabago y Teran. (2017)
- Blood, Sweat and Queers: Roller Derby and Queer Heritage (2018)
- Blood-Residue Analysis of Musket Balls from Sackets Harbor Battlefield of the War of 1812: Results and Implications (2016)
- Blue and White Chinese porcelain with datable 16th-century mounts (2015)
- Blue Caribbean: A Possible Indigo Plantation, Great Camanoe Island, British Virgin Islands (2014)
- Blue Willow Vessels and Life’s Other Mysteries: Understanding high value ceramics and their role in identity formation within contexts of company town economic deprivation (2018)
- Blurred Boundaries: Internal and Illicit Plantation Economies (2015)
- Blurred Lines: Queering the divide between pre-historic and historic archaeology (2015)
- Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries: Historical Archaeological Investigations at St. Nicholas Abbey Sugar Plantation (2013)
- Boats and Captians of Cahuita: Recording Watercraft and Small Boats of Costa Rica (2016)
- Boca, California- House On The Hill Project: Results of 2016 Field Survey (2018)
- Bodies Lying in State: Nationalism, the Past, and Identity (2013)
- Boilers on the Shore: Piecing together the history and significance of the steamship site at Fort Gadsden (2014)
- Bold Rascals: The Archaeology of Blockade Running in the Western Gulf (2016)
- Bones and Barbeques: A Zooarchaeological Study of Alsatian Foodways at Castroville, Texas (2017)
- Bones of the Frontier: Subsistence Practices at Hanna's Town (2016)
- Bones Wearing Bow Ties: Differential Preservation in Funerary Taphonomy (2017)
- The Boom and Bust of Tungsten Mining: A View from the Johnson Lake Mine (2015)
- BOOM BABY!": engaging the public through social media in response to "American Digger (2013)
- BOOM BABY!: Archaeology and the ethics of edutainment (2013)
- The Boomerang: Archaeological and Historical Investigations of a Missouri CCC Camp (2019)
- "Boring" Archaeology Along the Buried Historic Seattle Waterfront: Challenges from the Alaska Way Viaduct Replacement Project in Washington State (2020)
- Boston Latin School: A Look At Ethnic And Engendered Spaces (2018)
- Boston Massacre Bullets: Using Live-Fire Validation Techniques to Refute a Myth (2020)
- Both local and lointain: Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoecology at the îlot des Palais site, Quebec City. (2018)
- Bottles at the Biry House: Consumption and Economic Choice in a Texas-Alsatian Household (2018)
- Bottles to Bankruptcy: The Failure of Eagle Glass Works, 1845–1849 (2019)