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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- 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)
- 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)
- Bound for America：An archaeological investigation to Yuegang (crescent) seaport as a main origin of Galleon cargo (2018)
- Boundaries In Greensboro's 19th-Century Landscape: Households, Estate Lots, And Urbanization (2015)
- Boys and Their Toys: Masculine spaces in eighteenth-century York (2013)
- "The Brandywine Creek has two branches which are very good for crossing" : The search for Trimble’s Ford (2016)
- Breaking Boundaries on the Periphery: The Demise of Fort St. Pierre, 1719-1729, Vicksburg, Mississippi. (2015)
- Breaking News: Mended Ceramics in Historical Context (2016)
- Breaking the Law? A Serious Discussion over Maritime Conveyance over What, Why, and How Archaeological Laws are Interpreted Offshore. (2020)
- Breaking the Surface: 2018 Recovery of the Wooden Schooner Barge Adriatic (2019)
- Bretons, Basques and Inuit in Southern Labrador and Northern Newfoundland: the Struggle over Maritime Resources in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2014)
- Bricks as Ballast: An Archaeological Analysis of a Shipwreck in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica (2016)
- Bricks On Black Water: A Comparative Landscape Analysis of an 1830s Brickyard (2018)
- Bricks on Black Water: Excavations and Public Education at an 1830s Gulf Coast Brickyard (2017)
- The Brickyard in Chilmark – Once a Busy Vineyard Industry and Now One of the Island’s Hidden Industrial Wonders (2020)
- A Bridge of Ships: The Emergency Fleet Corporation and Texas' WWI Shipbuilding Legacy (2020)
- Bridges and Booze: Understanding the Development of the "Saloon Row" Along the Red River (2020)
- Bridging the Boundary Between Archeological Site Protection and Natural Resources Invasive Species Management in the National Park Service: A Case Study of Robinia pseudoacacia Management at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (2015)
- Bridging the Gap Between CRM and Academia: A Potential Model (2018)
- Bridging the Three Cultures: Commercial Archaeology, Academia and Government in the Study of the Past (2014)
- A Brief History of Battle and Preservation of the Mill Springs Battlefield (2018)
- Brimstone, Sea and Sand: The Historical Military Archaeology of the Port of Sandy Point and its Anchorage (2020)
- Bring Back The Ghosts: Hauntings, Authenticity, and Ruins (2016)
- Bring History Alive: Creating a Replica Worthington Steam Pump from USS Monitor (2016)
- Bringing 50 Years of Underwater Archaeology from Parks Canada to the Public (2014)
- Bringing Black Chefs into the Lab: A Call for an Interdisciplinary Public Approach to Zooarchaeology (2020)
- Bringing Down The Asylum Walls: understanding freedom and control in an Irish institutional building (2020)
- Bringing It All Back Home: The Archaeology of Diasporic Homelands (2015)
- Bringing Public Archeology HOME: Reflections on Citizen Science at Homestead National Monument of America (2020)
- Bringing the Neighborhood Back to Life: Working-Class Consumption and Immigrant Identity in 19th-Century Roxbury, Massachusetts (2015)
- Bringing the Public into the Process: the Montpelier Digital Collections Project and Mere Distinction of Colour Virtual Exhibit (2020)
- Bringing Traditional Knowledge into Citizen Science Systems (2020)
- Bringing Water to the Desert: the Civilian Conservation Corps at Petrified Forest National Park (2018)
- Bristol Houses: the Order of Merchant Capitalism in England's Second City (2013)
- A British (?) Shipwreck Site in the Natuna Islands of Indonesia: The Presence and The Need to Preserve (2013)
- British Capital, Mercury Miners, and Transfer Print Ceramics in 19th Century Peru (2018)