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 • Hüti glassworks • Old sector of San Victorino in Bogota • MS2

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Water-Related • Non-Domestic Structures • Archaeological Feature • Shipping-Related Structure • Shipwreck • Fort • Settlements • Domestic Structures • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features

Other Keywords
Landscape • Shipwreck • Slavery • Colonialism • Public Archaeology • Ceramics • Identity • Plantation • Material Culture • Shipwrecks

Culture Keywords
Historic • Euroamerican • African American • Spanish • French-Canadian • 18th century artillery • contemporany

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Archaeological Overview • Historic Background Research • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Reconnaissance / Survey • Heritage Management • Remote Sensing • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

Material Types
Metal • Ceramic • Glass • Fauna • Wood • Building Materials • Human Remains • Mineral • Bone • Flora

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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  1. Consumerism As A Strategy For Negotiating Racism: A Comparative Study Of African Americans In Jim Crow Era Annapolis, MD (2015)
  2. Consumerism on the Margins: Shop Ledgers and Materialized Social Status in Coastal Co. Galway, Ireland. (2016)
  3. Consumerism, Market Access, and Mobility at St. Barbara's Freehold, St. Mary's City, Maryland (2018)
  4. Consuming Conquest: Changing Foodways in Historic New Mexico (2022)
  5. Consuming Contagion: Taki Onqoy and the Ideological Rejection of European Foodstuffs (16th-Century, Ayacucho, Peru) (2023)
  6. Consuming Diaspora: 21st-Century Archaeologies of Finnish Transnationalism (2014)
  7. Consuming Marginality: Archaeologies of Identity and Post-Segregation Authenticity (2014)
  8. Consuming the French New World (2017)
  9. Consumption, Survival, and Personhood in Native North America (2013)
  10. Contaminated: Archaeological Perspectives on Adulterated Alcohol Products in Turn-of-the-Century America (2021)
  11. Contemporary Archeology And Urban Ruins: Urban Development Of The Western Sector Of The City of Bogota Between The 19th And 20th Centuries (2023)
  12. Contemporary Experiences of a Past Process; Improvement and Clearing of Farmers in the 21st Century (2014)
  13. Contemporary Research of Ceramic Children's Toys in Urban mid-18th to early 1920s Knoxville, TN (2022)
  14. The Contents and Distribution of Middens at Mission Concepción, San Antonio, TX (2020)
  15. Contesting Identities on an Emancipation Era Barbadian Plantation (2014)
  16. Context is Everything: From Florida Back to Europe, a Personal Nautical History (2023)
  17. Contexts and Consequences of Racialized Labor Relations between Japanese American Workers and Sawmill Town Management in the Pacific Northwest (1890 to 1930) (2017)
  18. Contextualizing Confederate Monuments in the South: How to Talk About Scary Things (2019)
  19. Contextualizing Consumption: Examining the Benefits of Multi-Site Discussion at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site (2020)
  20. Contextualizing Drayton Hall in the British Atlantic World: an Examination of the Elite Status of an 18th Century Lowcountry Home Seat (2014)
  21. Contextualizing European Copper Distribution Across the Seventeenth-Century American Southeast: A Geoarchaeological Approach (2015)
  22. Contextualizing Historical Avocational Reports: A Comprehensive Database of South Carolina Hobby Licensee Reports Over Five Decades (2022)
  23. Contextualizing Petroglyphs: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and Public Archaeology (2018)
  24. Contextualizing the Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida’s Ocala National Forest (2022)
  25. Contextualizing the Exceptional: Understanding "Small Find" Abundance at The Hermitage (2018)
  26. Contextualizing “Jane”: The Robert Cotton Tobacco Pipe (2014)
  27. The Continental Gunboat Philadelphia (1776): Update (2023)
  28. Continuity of Nipmuc Lithic Practice and Identity in a Colonial Landscape (2014)
  29. Contradictory Food: Dining in a New York Brothel c. 1840s (2016)
  30. Contributing Historical Archaeology to Global Efforts to Address Climate Change (2016)
  31. Contributions Brazilian Navy's in the protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2020)
  32. Control, Accommodation and Allegiance in the Munster Plantation: a New Perspective on Colonialism in the Munster Estates of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, 1602-1643 (2020)
  33. Converging Concepts of Landscape: Space and Place in 19th-century Northwest Lower Michigan (2018)
  34. Convict Housing at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia: a study in the context of British workers’ and American slave accommodation (2017)
  35. Convicts, Cargo, and Calamity: The Wreck of the Enchantress (2016)
  36. Cookbooks and Collective Action: An Examination of Cooking Traditions from The Coal Region Of North Eastern Pennsylvania (2014)
  37. Cooking Matters: Questions for the Next Generation (2014)
  38. The cooking pots of Canadian Basque sites: new arguments for old problems (2014)
  39. Cooking up Authenticity in an Afro-Brazilian pot: Nationalism, Racism, Tourism, and Consumption of low-fired earthenware ceramics in Pernambuco, Brazil. (2018)
  40. Cooking with Mary: How Household Archaeology, Sensory Engagement, and Food Come Together (2022)
  41. "Coon, possum, rabbit, squirrel en aw dat": A zooarchaeological investigation of foodways at Witherspoon Plantation, South Carolina (2015)
  42. Coopers, Peddlers, and Bricklayers: Stories of a Working-Class Property through Public Archaeology in Washington, DC (2018)
  43. Cope Hook and a Slate Pencil: Understanding Skidaway Island’s Benedictine Monks and Freedmen School Students (2018)
  44. Copper And Copper-Alloy Artifacts On The Borderlands Of New Spain- The COTBONS Project At 5 (2022)
  45. Copper On The Borderlands Of New Spain...It's Complicated (2019)
  46. Copper-Clad Ghost: The "Monterrey A Shipwreck" (2015)
  47. Copper-The Overlooked Artifact Of The Borderlands Of New Spain (2018)
  48. Corduroy Roads as a Feature of the American Landscape: Historical Reports from the Trenches (2015)
  49. Cores and Peripheries: Betty’s Hope, A Synergy of Approaches to the Archaeology of a Caribbean Sugar Plantation (2015)
  50. Corkonians And Fardowners: Irish Activity And Identity In The Rural American South, 1850-1860 (2018)
  51. The Cornplanter Grant: Listing Pennsylvania’s First Native American Traditional Cultural Property (2019)
  52. Corography, territory and cultural policies in Santafe de Bogota (16th-17th Centuries) (2013)
  53. Coronado and Spanish Colonial and American Indian Trade at Pecos National Historical Park, New Mexico: Archaeological Evidence (2013)
  54. Coronation Wreck Visitor Trail - A New Approach to Outreach and Protected Wrecks in the UK (2013)
  55. Correcting History: 18th Century Elliot Plantation, African -Built Landscapes, Volunteers and Partners in the National Park Service (2016)
  56. The "Correio d’ Ázia" – an early 19th century Portuguese "galera" wrecked in Australia. Preliminary findings. (2013)
  57. Corrosion and Microbiological Evaluation of a Recovered Experimental Platform from the site of DKM U166 (2015)
  58. Corrosion Monitoring and Preservation in Situ of Large Iron Artifacts at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck site (2016)
  59. Cosmic Context, Emancipated Persons, Germantown Parsonage (2020)
  60. Cosmopolitanism In South Carolina: Examining John Drayton’s Country Estate (2018)
  61. Cottage Clusters and Community Engagement: Collaborative Investigations of Multiscalar Social Relations in 19th Century Clachans, Co. Mayo, Ireland (2016)
  62. Cottages for the Proletariat: Life and Labor on Blue Row in the Graniteville Textile Mill Village, 1845-1870 (2013)
  63. The Cotton King(dom): Reevaluating the Economic Capital of Cedar Grove Plantation in Western Tennessee (2021)
  64. Cotton to the Doorstep: Gardening and Food Storage in the Early 20th-Century Southeast (2016)
  65. Counter-Archaeology: Blending Critical Race Theory and Community-Based Participatory Research (2015)
  66. The Country’s House: The Evolution of Public Space in St. Mary’s City’s 17th-Century Town Center (2014)
  67. Covert Cooking: Food Acquisition, Preparation and Consumption outside of the Granada Relocation Center Mess Halls (2018)
  68. Cows, Genes, and African Cowboys: How Paleogenetics Could Support the Role of Afro-descending Workers in the Emergence of Cattle Ranching in Early Spanish America (2023)
  69. Crack Method: Community, Mutual Aid, and Appropriation in Washington D.C.’s Homeless Encampments (2020)
  70. Craft and Commerce: Identifying Trade networks and Aesthetic Connections Using Local Pipes (2022)
  71. Crafting the Nomination for the Cornplanter Grant TCP, Warren County, Pennsylvania (2019)
  72. Crafting Tradition: Historical Archaeology and the Persistence of the Patawomeck Eel Pot (2021)
  73. Crafty Thinking: Measuring Skill Across Time and Space (2020)
  74. Craters, Coral Heads, and Capitol Ships: The Submarine Landscape of Bikini Atoll (2020)
  75. «The Cream of Goods» An Analysis of Creamware from the Narbonne House in Salem, Massachusetts (2014)
  76. Creating a Digital Landscape: GIS Analysis of the Front Yard at James Madison’s Montpelier (2014)
  77. Creating a Militarized Landscape at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts (2020)
  78. Creating a Research Community at Mission San Jose in Fremont, California (2018)
  79. Creating A Unified Database Of New York City Artifacts (2016)
  80. Creating a Virtual 3D Reconstruction of the St. Croix Leper Hospital (2022)
  81. Creating and Contesting Male Personhood on the Last Spanish Colonial Frontier (2021)
  82. Creating Space for a Place: The River Street Public Archaeology Project (2016)
  83. The Creation of an In-House, Interactive, Bottle Identification Guide for Students (2017)
  84. The Creation of the New York City Archaeological Repository (2016)
  85. Creative Continuity:Tradition and Community Reproduction on the Margins of Western Ireland (2016)
  86. Creativity and Resistance to Slavery in Northern Ecuador: The archeology of the Afro-Andino in the Chota-Mira Valley (17th to 20th century) (2014)
  87. A Creole Synthesis: An Archaeology of the Mixed Heritage Silas Tobias Site in Setauket, New York (2018)
  88. The Creole Village: Trans-Mississippi French Culture in the 19th Century (2021)
  89. Creolization in the Frontiers: Apalachee Identity and Culture Change in the 18th Century (2015)
  90. Crewman "Miller" - Man of Mystery (2020)
  91. Crime and Criminality in 18th Century Virginia (2016)
  92. Criminal Boys in a Remote Landscape: The Archaeology of Point Puer (1834-1849), an Experimental Reform Institution in Colonial Australia (2021)
  93. A Crisis of Unpublished Cities: An Epoch of Incredulous Belief (2023)
  94. Critical Public Archaeology as Social Change: Five Years of Public Outreach at the Anthracite Heritage Program (2020)
  95. A Critical Race Theory and Archaeological Approach to Enslavement at the Dinsmore Plantation (2023)
  96. A Critical Review of Shoreline Modeling Strategies to Identify Known and Unrecorded Cultural Heritage Sites (2023)
  97. CRM and Public Engagement in the Northwest United States (2013)
  98. CRM And The Significance Of Identifying And Mapping Historic Extant Trail Remnants: A Study In Mapping The Santa Fe Trail Through The State Of Kansas Utilizing Available LiDAR Data And GIS Mapping. (2020)
  99. The CRM Mother: Case Studies in Working in the Industry as a Mother (2020)
  100. The Crofters’ Strategies And Adaptations In Times Of Expansion And Crisis (2023)