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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  • Documents (6,639)
  1. Deconcreting the Hunley: Revealing the Surface of the Submarine for the First Time (2016)
  2. Deconstructing a Marginalized Identity Formation: What the Built Environment of Dogtown Can Tell Us About Its Past and About Its Present (2014)
  3. Deconstructing Ubiquity: the Interpretive Value of Metal Drum Container Artifacts (2017)
  4. Deep History and Material Culture of the Spanish Invasion of Mesoamerica (2020)
  5. The Deep History of a Modern Phenomenon: An Archaeological Perspective on Corporate Agriculture in Northwest Ohio (2017)
  6. The Deep History of a Modern Phenomenon: An Archaeological Perspective on Corporate Agriculture in Northwest Ohio (2016)
  7. Deep Sea Mining and Underwater Cultural Heritage (2021)
  8. Deep Space: The Recovery of Saturn V Booster Engines From a Depth of 4000 Meters (2015)
  9. Deep Urban Reverberations: Exploring the Historical Trajectory of African Atlantic Cities (2014)
  10. Deep Wrecks in 3D: AUV and ROV Laser and Sonar Scans of Deepwater Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (2015)
  11. The Deep-water Ecology of the HMS Olympus: an Analysis of the Archaeological Impact of Marine Growth on Submerged Material Culture Beneath the Photic Zone. (2020)
  12. Deep-Water Shipwreck Site Distribution: The Equation of Site Formation (2013)
  13. Deepwater Shipwrecks and Oil Spill Impacts: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Shipwreck Impacts from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2015)
  14. Deepwater Shipwrecks and Oil Spill Impacts: An Innovative Multiscalar Approach from Microbial Ecology to 3D Scanning Systems (2017)
  15. A Deepwater World War II Battlefield: The German U-boat, U-166, and Passenger Freighter Robert E. Lee (2016)
  16. Deer, Shells and a Pony: Faunal Evidence from the Abraham Preble Garrison in York, Maine (2023)
  17. The Defence of Gagadama: Siege Warfare and Ethnographic Knowledge (2013)
  18. Defend Your Coast: GIS Network Analysis of Crusader Fortifications Within the Kyrenia Region of Cyprus (2018)
  19. Defend Your Coast: Network Analysis of Crusader Fortifications and Settlements in the Kyrenia Region of Cyprus (2020)
  20. "Defendiendo el Jardín de la Memoria Martina Carrillo": Beyond collaborative archaeology to recuperate an Afro-Ecuadorian Maroons' Cemetery (2023)
  21. Defending Acapulco. Weaponry from Fort San Diego as archaeological sources for the Port maritime history (2018)
  22. ‘Defending Jackson’s Ramparts’: The Political and Cultural Struggle of Preserving the Battle of New Orleans Historic Site (2017)
  23. Defending The East Coast: Adapting And Converting Commercial Ships For Military Operations (2015)
  24. Defense and Concealment of Migrant Chinese Homes: A Case Study of Surviving Racialized Violence in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century California. (2020)
  25. Defined by Place?: Setting the Homes of the Enslaved Community at Montpelier into a Regional Context (2015)
  26. Defining Blockaders: USS Westfield, USS Hatteras, and their Archaeological Context (2016)
  27. Defining Historical Archaeology in New York City: New Terms, New Archaeology (2016)
  28. Defining Historical Community Boundaries with GIS: Walla Walla’s Chinatown (2015)
  29. Defining Success in Public Archaeology Evaluation (2018)
  30. Defining the 1722 Presidio de Bexar: A Closer Look at the 2018 Calder Alley Data Recover Investigations, Military Plaza, San Antonio Bexar County, Texas. (2020)
  31. Defying Isolation: Pre-Civil War American Pottery Production and Marketing (2016)
  32. The Degradation of Wooden- and Steel-Hulled Shipwrecks in the Marine Environment (2015)
  33. Degrees of Freedom: Emancipated and Self-Emancipated People in Indiana and Kenya in the 19th Century (2015)
  34. The Delfosse-Allard Site: A Middle Historic Occupation in the Potawatomi Refuge on Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula (2019)
  35. "Delicious Fathers of Abiding Friendship and Fertile Reveries":  Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption at Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon, USA, 1856-1866. (2013)
  36. ‘Delicious Fathers of Abiding Friendship and Fertile Reveries’: Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption at the Fort Yamhill Company Kitchen, Oregon, 1856-1866 (2014)
  37. ‘A Delightful Odour to the Breath’: Toothpaste in Late Nineteenth Century Toronto (2014)
  38. Delineating Ancestral Tribal Territories in Western Washington Based on Flawed Interpretations of Historic Records and Archaeology: A Review of Contemporary Practices and Consequences (2015)
  39. Democracy, Diversity, and Race: Interpreting humanities to the public through context of place at Jamestown (2018)
  40. The Demolition Of Faith And Culture: The Brutalization Of Ancient Georgian Churches By The USSR (2022)
  41. Dendroarchaeological dating and authentication of historic Cherokee dwellings of the Northern Georgia Trail of Tears (2014)
  42. Dendroarchaeology of Eastern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) in the Greater Montreal area: local use and imports (2014)
  43. Dendrochronological Evaluation of Ship Timber from Charlestown Navy Yard (Boston, MA) (2014)
  44. Dendrochronology at Ash Lawn-Highland (2016)
  45. Dendrochronology in the Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming: How Ancient Wood Frames a High Montane Archaeological Landscape (2014)
  46. Dentistry as Social Discourse: Aspects of Oral Health and Consumer Choice using a Bioarchaeological Perspective (2016)
  47. Depicting the Slow Violence of Colonialism in Rural Yucatán, Mexico (2020)
  48. The Des Rivieres at House 7, a Michilimackinac Case Study (2014)
  49. Descendant Community and the Transcontinental Railroad: Intersection of Archaeology and Real Life (2021)
  50. Describing and Attributing Early Oyster Jars (2020)
  51. Desecration as Creation: Material Tracings of Vandalism and Witchcraft in a Northern California Pioneer Cemetery. (2023)
  52. The Design and Creation of «CSS David»: Memoirs of the Boats Builder (2014)
  53. Designing a Collaborative Website for Inter-Site Research: The Colonial Encounters Project (2016)
  54. Designing the 1717 Princess Carolina, a Colonial Merchant Ship (2014)
  55. Destruction & Wanton Waste: The Impact of War in a Peaceful Valley (2022)
  56. A Detailed Analysis of the Dentition of Jamestown’s First Settlers (2017)
  57. Detecting Dutchness: Global Identities in the 17th Century Dutch Atlantic (2018)
  58. Deterioration of Historic Structures on Barbuda, West Indies (2015)
  59. Determining Battle Lines: a pXRF study of lead shot from the Battle of Palo Alto. (2016)
  60. Determining German Ethnic Identity in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri: Study of the Janis-Ziegler Site (23G272) (2019)
  61. Determining NRHP Eligibility of Artificial Reefs: A Hypothetical Case Study of Intentionally Sunk Ships and Other Objects in Pensacola, Florida (2023)
  62. Detroit vs. Slow Archaeology: Blight Removal and its Obstacles to Local and Community-based Practices (2020)
  63. Detroit, City Beautiful: Excavations of a Displaced 19th-century Community in Corktown (2014)
  64. Deux dépotoirs de la fin du 18e-19e siècle trouvés en Haute-Normandie (Rouen et Neufchâtel-en-Bray) (2014)
  65. Developing a Geotrail: Utilizing Geocaching and Letterboxing in Public Archaeology (2013)
  66. Developing an Ecological Interpretation of Land Use in Virginia’s Piedmont: The Montpelier Example (2016)
  67. Developing and Maintaining Community Interest in Archaeology: The Role of Municipal Government and Public Archaeology Outreach in St. Augustine, Florida (2014)
  68. Developing Digital Identity and Student Opportunities in a Public Archaeology Degree Program (2018)
  69. Developing Long-Term Research Goals at Gloucester Point through Problem-Oriented Research (2018)
  70. Developing Personhood: The discourse, experience, and material culture of children’s play activities in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp (2016)
  71. The Development and Application of a High-Resolution Underwater Laser Scanning System for 3D Structural Recording (2014)
  72. Development and Refinement of the Argos Diver-Held Magnetic Gradiometer (2023)
  73. Development of a Learning Game for the Submerged Ice Age site of Hoyo Negro, Mexico (2022)
  74. Developments in Methodology in Aeronautical Archaeology (2020)
  75. The Devil Came to Georgia: LiDAR, KOCOA, and Identifying Ephemeral Sites of Conflict (2022)
  76. The Devil to Pay and No Pitch Hot (2022)
  77. The Devil’s Belt: Visualizing Nineteenth Century Shipping Losses off the Coast of Rhode Island (2019)
  78. Dialogues on the Experience of War: Difficult Heritage (2018)
  79. A Diamond Trowel: Minecrafting Archaeology at Fort St. Joseph (2016)
  80. Diaspora and Double Happiness: Tracking Rice Bowls Across the Pacific (2023)
  81. Diaspora and social networks in a WWII Japanese American Incarceration Center (2018)
  82. Diaspora in a Teacup: Materializations of Diaspora in the FS Louie Company of Berkeley, CA. (2022)
  83. Diasporic Flows and "Dwelling-in-Travel" in Southeastern North America (2013)
  84. Dichotomies and Dualities: exploring the landscape impacts of the Great Depression through an archaeological lens (2018)
  85. Dietary behaviors and identity through stables isotopes analysis in the protestant cemetery of St. Matthew, Quebec City (1771-1860) (2014)
  86. A Different Breed: Historical Archaeology in Arizona (2016)
  87. A Different Kind of Screen Time: Using Emerging Mobile Geospatial Technologies to Engage with Public and Professional Audiences. (2018)
  88. DIG! Goes to College: Experiential Learning in the College Classroom (2019)
  89. DIG! on Summer Vacation: Experiential Learning On-Site at Colonial Williamsburg (2019)
  90. Digging Beantown: Mary Beaudry's Boston (2022)
  91. Digging Beantown: Uncovering Community Identity Through Public Archaeology in Boston (2019)
  92. Digging Close to Home: An Archaeological Field School in the University’s Back Yard (2023)
  93. Digging Dartmouth: Community Archaeology at an 18th Century House Site on the Dartmouth Green (2020)
  94. Digging Deeper: Engaging High School Students with Working Class Heritage in Northeastern Pennsylvania (2019)
  95. Digging Down the Bay: Interdisciplinary Investigation at Mobile's Virginia Street Site (2023)
  96. Digging for the War of 1812 in Patterson Park, Baltimore (2016)
  97. Digging in Our Mothers’ Gardens: Unearthing Formations of Black Womanhood (2017)
  98. ‘Digging in the Dirt? I Can Do That!’ Archaeology in Middle Level Education (2015)
  99. Digging in the Wilderness: Uncovering George Washington’s Formal Mount Vernon Landscape. (2015)
  100. Digging In: Documenting, Preserving, and Accessing Fort Ticonderoga’s Archaeological Collection (2019)