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. Cross-mends that Cross Lines: A study of inter-structure cross-mended objects from Monticello’s Mulberry Row (2014)
  2. Crossing Borders and Crossing Subdisciplines: Blurring the Lines Between Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections Within Museums for International Repatriation (2023)
  3. Crossing the battlefield: Archaeology, nationalism, and practice in Irish historical archaeology (2014)
  4. Crossing the Line: Disciplinary Boundaries, Decolonization and Museum Collections (2023)
  5. Crossroads on the Coast: A Preliminary Examination of Bridgetown, Antigua (2018)
  6. CSS Georgia And Research That Preceded Mitigation (2016)
  7. Cuales cuentos cuentan? Opportunities to question the semioses of historicity in Historical Archaeology through investigation of the Andean past (2014)
  8. Cuban "Chug" Boat Project: Documenting Hope and Resolve (2023)
  9. Cufflinks, Quarters, and Consumption: An Examination of Adolescent Burials at Dubuque’s Third Street Cemetery (2018)
  10. Culinary Worlds Colliding: Using Biography to Understand the Alimentary Experience of Migration and ‘Modernization’ in Gilded Age & Progressive Era Chicago  (2013)
  11. CULTCOAST – North Norwegian Heritage at Risk (2023)
  12. Cultivated Historical Landscapes: Theoretical Aspect for the Archaeology of Andean Colonial Gardens and Fields (2014)
  13. Cultivating the American Wilderness: Macrobotanical Evidence from Bartram’s Garden (2022)
  14. Cultivating the Next Generation of Maritime Archaeologists: An Anglo/American Approach (2013)
  15. Cultural Brokerage and Pluralism on the Silver Bluff Plantation and Trading Post on the Carolina Frontier (2015)
  16. Cultural Continuity of Enslaved Peoples Foodways on James Island (2013)
  17. Cultural heritage, history and memory in the context of Madagascar (2013)
  18. Cultural Identity and Materiality at French Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan (2018)
  19. The Cultural Interaction Between Reverend Peter Dougherty And The Ottawa And Chippewa Indians Of Old Mission Peninsula: 1839-1852. (2018)
  20. The Cultural Landscape at Mount Plantation, Barbados: preliminary findings and future directions (2013)
  21. Cultural Landscapes in Exodus: The Natchez Fort in Central Louisiana (2018)
  22. The Cultural Pluralism of Indigenous and African American Households in Colonial New England (2018)
  23. Cultural Resources Toolkit for Marine Protected Area Managers (2017)
  24. Cultural Resources Toolkit for Marine Protected Area Managers (2014)
  25. The Cultural Significance of Historic Bone Tools (2023)
  26. Culture Embossed: A Study of Wine Bottle Seals (2018)
  27. Culture, Class & Consumption: Ireland in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2018)
  28. Culture, Community, and a Cruise Ship: Black Feminist Archaeology in a Caribbean Context (2014)
  29. Culture, Ship Construction, and Ecological Change: The Sailing Vessels of Pensacola’s Fishing Industry (2013)
  30. Curating Rhode Island’s History: Lessons in Accountability and the Rehabilitation of State-owned Collections (2016)
  31. Curbed Boundaries: An Analysis of Home Front Material Culture within the Context of Individual vs. Municipal Investments in Contemporary Oakland, CA (2015)
  32. "Cures after Doctors Fail": A Four-Field Approach to Medicated Pain Relief in Early 20th Century America (2019)
  33. The Curious Case of Steamer City of Rockland: How Citizen Scientists are Helping Investigate Possible 100-year Old Misidentification (2020)
  34. Curles Neck: a collections reassessment. (2017)
  35. Current Interpretations at the "Cemetery" Site at Old Colchester Park and Preserve (2016)
  36. Current NHHC Studies in US Naval Archaeology (2016)
  37. Current Projects at the Conservation Research Laboratory (2022)
  38. Current Research on the 1969 Yreka Chinatown Archaeological Excavation and Collection (2018)
  39. Current Trends in Aviation Archaeology (2014)
  40. The 'Curse of the Caribbean'? The Effects of Agency on the Efficiency of Sugar Plantations in St Vincent and the Grenadines, 1801-30 (2013)
  41. "Cursed Be He that Moves My Bones:"The Archaeologist’s Role in Protecting Burial Sites in Urban Areas (2020)
  42. Cut and Fill-adelphia: Measuring Topographic Change since the 19th Century in Philadelphia (2020)
  43. A Cutt of the Catt’s Ears: The State of Physic in Early 18th Century Williamsburg. (2020)
  44. Cuáles son las preguntas que cuentan en la arqueología histórica? Respuestas de El Salvador (2014)
  45. The Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House Archaeology Project: Reflections of class, gender, and domesticity in the material culture of the Jacobs family (2014)
  46. Céramiques de Midi-Pyrénées (France) à l’époque moderne (2014)
  47. The Côte du Chapeau Rouge: Preliminary Investigation of the French cultural landscape on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula (2023)
  48. Daily Practices in Private and Communal Spaces: Preliminary Results of Excavation at a Nikkei Residence and Communal Bathhouse at Barneston, WA (1907-1924) (2020)
  49. The Dalles to Sandy River Wagon Road: Overland through the Columbia River Gorge (2015)
  50. Damages, Depredations, Sufferings And Destruction: The Landscape Of Conflict And The "Late War With Great Britain" (2022)
  51. Danalaig a yabu kaipai pa kulai a inab thonar no koi ngapa wagel (Our way of life from a long time ago to the next generation coming): Archaeological and Mualaig biographies of missions. (2018)
  52. Daniel Gookin's Atlantic World: An ESRI GIS Storymap for Archaeology (2016)
  53. Daniel Gookin’s Atlantic World: Comparative Archaeological Landscapes in Ireland and Virginia. (2013)
  54. Daniel Gookin’s Chesapeake: The Intercolonial Plantation Landscape (2014)
  55. Danish Colonial Healthcare Policy and Enslaved Healing Practices on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. (2015)
  56. A Danish Colonial Merchant's Residence in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas:  Material expressions of colonialism and the intersection of local and global trade at the Bankhus (2013)
  57. Danish Defense of St. Croix (2020)
  58. The Dardenne Presbyterian Church Archaeological Project (2016)
  59. Dark Knights and Dimout Lights : Archaeological Analysis of Two World War II Merchant Vessels in the Gulf of Mexico (2014)
  60. Dark Places: Archaeological Investigations of Historic Underground Mines (2015)
  61. Dark Shadows of the Homefront: Crystal City and Internment During World War II (2015)
  62. The Dark Side of Gentility: Race and Masculine Becoming at 18th-century Harvard College (2018)
  63. Data and metadata definition of underwater 3D archaeological features (2013)
  64. Data Recovery at the Elkins A & B Site [7NC-G-174] A unique look at two adjacent single-occupation 18th century farmsteads (2016)
  65. Data Recovery of the CSS Georgia (2018)
  66. Database Creation for the Legacy Collection of Hannastown (2016)
  67. A database for the underwater cultural heritage of Portugal (2019)
  68. Databases and GIS tools : Analysis of Archeological Remains (2014)
  69. Dating the Custis Teabowls (2021)
  70. Dating the Sparrow-Hawk (2020)
  71. Dating ‘aboiteaux’ with the use of dendroarchaeology : examples for Acadia (2014)
  72. Dauntless Protection: Managing the U.S. Navy Aircraft Wrecks of Lake Michigan (2020)
  73. A Day in the Life: Artifacts from Pipestone Indian Boarding School, Pipestone, Minnesota (2015)
  74. Day of Archaeology: Large-scale Collaborative Digital Archaeology (2013)
  75. The Days After Colorado’s Darkest Day: Initial Work at Julesburg Station and Camp Rankin, Colorado (2020)
  76. Days of Ore: Underwater Archaeological Investigations of Freedom Iron Mine, Captain C.T. Roberts' Wet Prospect (2019)
  77. De la Guyane à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, en passant par Terre-Neuve (2020)
  78. De la Sartén al Fuego - Connecting The Documentary And Material Records of Kitchens In Alta California (2023)
  79. De-Centering Expertise in Public Archaeology: Promises and Perils from the Great Bay Archaeological Survey (2020)
  80. De-Polarizing Archaeology’s Views on Cultural Pride: The Case of Houses and Plants in Castroville (2017)
  81. Dead Bodies & the Politics of Memory: Bioarchaeology at the UWI Mona and the Decolonization of Heritage (2019)
  82. A Deadly Device: New Insights into the Weapon System of the Submarine H.L. Hunley (2022)
  83. The Dead’s Vitality: Maintaining Souls in Virginia Communities (2016)
  84. Dealing in Metaphors: Exploring the Materiality of Trade on the Seventeenth-Century Eastern Siouan Frontier (2014)
  85. Death at the Edge of Empire and Beyond: The Divergent Histories of Coffin Furniture and Coffin Hardware (2013)
  86. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Souveniring, Salvage and the Long, Sad Demise of HMAS Perth (I) (2018)
  87. Death in Texas: Burials Patterns Within the Campo Santo of San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio (2018)
  88. Death, Race, and Childhood: An Examination of Toys as Grave Inclusions (2014)
  89. DEBS: Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording (2020)
  90. Decadal Drought and Wetness Reconstructed for Subtropical North America in the Mexican Drought Atlas (2016)
  91. The Decaen faïencerie in Harfleur (1802-1821). The rediscovery of a lost production (2014)
  92. Deciphering Ornamental Landscapes at Monticello (2016)
  93. The Decisive Moment in Archaeology: Photography and the Loss, Recovery, and Repatriation of America’s Missing in Action (2017)
  94. THE DECLINE OF THE TRADITIONAL IRON WORKING INDUSTRY IN THE ABUJA AREA OF CENTRAL NIGERIA: THE ROLE OF BRITISH COLONIAL POLICIES. c. 1800-1960 (2016)
  95. Decoding the Midden: How DAACS Helped Reveal the Secrets of the Most Complicated Context at Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Virginia (2015)
  96. Decolonizing a Metropolis: the materialization of the late Portuguese empire through Lisbon’s commercial spaces (2013)
  97. Decolonizing Landscapes: Documenting culturally important areas collaboratively with tribes (2017)
  98. Decolonizing the Persuasive Power of Paradigms and Discourse (2016)
  99. Decolonizing the Practice of Archaeology through Collaboration and Community Engagement: Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned (2018)
  100. Decomposing Capital: The Two Sides of Industrial Decay in Mill Creek Ravine (2020)