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. Digging into Digital: Using Technology to Interpret Archaeological Sites (2020)
  2. Digging Into French Colonial St. Louis (2019)
  3. Digging into the Collections: Mining Repositories for New Research Potential (2019)
  4. Digging Our Past: Student-Led Excavation as Experiential Learning and Active Engagement with Campus History (2020)
  5. Digging Out after Decades of Fast Capitalism: Addressing Richmond’s Incomplete Archaeological Legacy Through Community-Based Projects and Advocacy (2020)
  6. Digging the (Texas) Revolution: Archeology at San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site (2020)
  7. Digging the Bureaucracy: Government Compliance Archaeology as Public Archaeology (2020)
  8. Digging the Kitchen at Roanoke College (2015)
  9. Digging up Whiskey Row: An Archaeological Investigation of the Historic Townsite of Agate Bay (2014)
  10. The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery: A Case Study in Slow Archaeology (2020)
  11. Digital Archaeological Data: An Examination Of Different Publishing Models (2015)
  12. Digital Archaeology and its impact on America’s Last Remaining CCC Watermill in the Ocala National Forest (2023)
  13. Digital Archaeology in Pandemic Times: Pedestrian Survey in The Elder Scrolls Online (2023)
  14. Digital Archaeology in the Finger Lakes: 3D Photogrammetry in Skaneateles Lake, NY (2023)
  15. Digital Archaeology: Telling the Stories of the Past Using Technology of the Future (2017)
  16. The Digital Crunch of COVID-19: The Results of a Small Museum Producing Digital Content for a Potential New Digital Audience (2021)
  17. Digital Curation In The Age of Covid: Using the FAIR Principles to Foster Preservation, Access, and Reuse (2021)
  18. Digital Data Access at Archaeological Repositories (2021)
  19. Digital Documentation and Assessment of the Remote Colonial Church at Ecab, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2015)
  20. Digital documentation for many purposes. The Barcode 6 boat as a case study. (2013)
  21. Digital Exhibits without the Developer: Technological Tools for Museum Outreach (2019)
  22. Digital Historic Preservation: Recording and Interpreting the Patterson-Altman’s Mill with 3-D Scanning (2016)
  23. Digital Libraries in 3D for Maritime Archaeology: Dutch Merchant Ships 1595–1800 (2021)
  24. Digital Photogrammetric Recording of HMS Erebus (2020)
  25. Digital Public Outreach and Education in Underwater Archaeology (2021)
  26. Digitizing Archaeological Research: Embracing the Virtual Accessibility of Knowledge Amid a Global Pandemic (2021)
  27. Digitizing Betty’s Hope Plantation, Antigua, West Indies (2013)
  28. Dining And Resistance In Chinese Diaspora Archaeology: A Case Study Of Food Practices From The Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California (2020)
  29. Dining in Detroit: A critical look at urban food consumption patterns through 19th Century Faunal Remains Analysis. (2018)
  30. Dining in Detroit: Revisiting 19th Century Faunal Remains from the Renaissance Center Excavations (2015)
  31. Dining with M. — How Mary C. Beaudry Brought Seeds, Bones and Sherds Back to Life (2022)
  32. Dinner Parties and Hospitality at the Betty’s Hope Plantation (Antigua), 1783-1904 (2015)
  33. Dipt, Painted, and Printed Wares: Ceramic Assemblages from Enslaved Homes as Evidence of Personal Choice at James Madison's Montpelier (2015)
  34. Directions in Deepwater Marine Archaeology: Using Technology to Grow and Synthesize Knowledge on the Deep Frontier. (2016)
  35. The Disappearing Artifacts: Where are the 17th and 18th-century artifacts on rural New England farmstead sites? (2014)
  36. The Disappearing Legacy of the CCC: Spike Camps and missing material culture at Mount Rainier (2014)
  37. Discipline Contra Autonomy in the Landscape of Emancipation of Colonial Saint-Louis, North-Western Senegal (2023)
  38. Discourse and Narrative Production at Historic Sites: The Role of Documentary Archaeology in Addressing Structural and Symbolic Violence (2016)
  39. Discourse, Dumpsites, and New Directions in the ‘Land of Trump’: Archaeology and Representations at Appalachian Company Coal Mining Towns (2018)
  40. Discovered Repeatedly: A "Newcomers" Archeological Evaluation of Pacific Reef Wreck (2017)
  41. Discoveries of Nautical Chart Making: NOAA Ship Fairweather - 2012 Arctic Region Expedition (2013)
  42. Discovering Archaeology Through Video Games: A Non-Archeologist’s Enlightenment (2017)
  43. Discovering Leetown: A Small Hamlet’s Role in the Battle of Pea Ridge and Beyond. (2018)
  44. Discovering San Antón de Carlos: the Sixteenth Century Spanish Buildings and Fortifications of Mound Key, Capital of the Calusa (2018)
  45. Discovering the Blue Ridge Exploradores: Celebrating Thirty Years of Public Engagement at the Berry Site (2017)
  46. The Discovery and Excavations of the 17th Century Structures at Eyreville (44NH0507) on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. (2020)
  47. Discovery and future of the lost fleet of the Mongol Empire (2016)
  48. Discovery and Investigation of the Luna Settlement (2017)
  49. Discovery of Barry’s Wharf on the Southeast Waterfront, Washington, DC (2020)
  50. The Discovery of the Monterrey Shipwrecks: A Find by Design (2015)
  51. Discovery Through Rehabilitation: The Betty Veatch Potomac Creek Collection (2020)
  52. The "Discovery" of the Spanish Sea: First Encounters and Early Impressions (2016)
  53. Discussant for "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" (2020)
  54. Discussant: (2020)
  55. Discussion (2013)
  56. Diseaster Archaeology - Adapting Archaeological Methods to Recover Human Cremated Remains from Catastrophic Wiildfire Areas (2022)
  57. Disgusting Things: How Disgust Shapes Contemporary Homeless Materialities (2023)
  58. The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon: Revisiting Unprovenienced Food Ways Artifacts from the Spanish Fleet Wrecks of Eighteenth Century Florida (2017)
  59. Dishes in the Privy: Ceramic Use at St. Michael’s Mission on the Navajo Nation (2020)
  60. Dismantling Disaster Capitalism: What Does the New Green Deal Look Like for Archaeology? (2021)
  61. The Disparate and Unexpected Impacts of Climate Change and Other Crises on Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Three Continents (2023)
  62. Displacement and Adjustment among the Piscataway in Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1680-1743 (2018)
  63. Displacement, Memory, and Community Heritage Work in the Old City of Acre (Israel) (2018)
  64. The Display of Human Skeletal Remains at Jamestown (2014)
  65. Disrupted Identities and Frontier Forts: Enlisted men and officers at Fort Lane, Oregon Territory, 1853-1855. (2016)
  66. Disrupting Pedagogies: Queer Theory in the Classroom, Field School, and Mentoring (2020)
  67. Dissent and Disruption: Uncovering an Archaeology of Political Friction in New York City (2021)
  68. Dissonant material memory of enduring civil conflict: snapshots from Belfast, Northern Ireland (2021)
  69. A Distant Diaspora: Comparative Perspectives on the Archaeology of Roman Slavery. (2013)
  70. Distributed Remains, Distributed Minds: The Materiality of Autopsy and Dissection (2018)
  71. The Distribution of Cowrie Shells in Colonial Virginia (2013)
  72. Disturbed by Treasure Salvage Yet Still Significant: Exploring Manila Galleons Santa Margarita and Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in the Northern Mariana Islands (2021)
  73. Diver-Archaeological Reconnaissance Cooperative (DivARC): Veterans working with Nautical Archaeological Society-New England (2020)
  74. Divergent Heritages: Two Case of Labor Conflict (2018)
  75. Divergent Paths: Reflections on Section 106 and the Archaeology of Nostalgia (2018)
  76. Diverse Dining: Post-Emancipation Foodways in Antigua, West Indies (2017)
  77. Diverse Threats to MAST And Its Heritage in Africa : Confronting Historical Amnesia And Salvors; Securing Slim Resources And Social Relevance (2016)
  78. Diverse Threats to MAST and its Heritage in Africa : Confronting Historical Amnesia and Salvors; Securing Slim Resources and Social Relevance (2016)
  79. Diversity and Strong(er) Objectivity in Historical Archaeology (2020)
  80. Diversity in Adversity: French Immigrant Identity in Early Modern London (2013)
  81. Diversity in Decor: Fireplace Tiles and Murals from the Overhills Estate on Fort Bragg (2014)
  82. Divided: Material Landscapes of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore City and County, Maryland (2016)
  83. Dividing Lines: Understanding the Social Spaces of Boundaries at James Madison’s Montpelier (2019)
  84. Diving in the Dark: Underwater Excavation Methods in Jefferson County, FL (2014)
  85. Diving In The Desert: A First Look At The Underwater Archaeology Of Walker Lake (2016)
  86. Diving Into History: Professional and Avocational Archaeologists Partner to Document Historical Shipwrecks Around North Carolina’s Outer Banks (2014)
  87. Diving into the PAST: Developing a Public Engagement Program for Pensacola’s Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2016)
  88. Diving into the Past: The Corsair at Crystal Cove State Marine Conservation Area (2016)
  89. Divulging Protected Wrecks in the Solent. (2013)
  90. DNA from Hagley Plantation cemetery reveals ancestral origins of South Carolina slaves (2018)
  91. Do Archaeologist Make Terrible Parents? Reflections from Finnish Children Books and from Real Life (2020)
  92. Documentary Archaeology and African American Heritage in Central Florida (2022)
  93. Documentation Of Conserved Timbers: Experiences From Western Norway. (2023)
  94. The Documentation, Interpretation, and Partial Restoration of Civil War Era Forts on the Lower Cape Fear River: Common Archaeological Threads from 50 Years of Investigations (2015)
  95. Documenting America’s Last Remaining CCC Watermill in the Ocala National Forest (2022)
  96. Documenting and Reconstructing the Hull Remains of Queen Anne's Revenge (2017)
  97. Documenting Historic Land Use of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery on the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (2019)
  98. Documenting Historic Shipwrecks in the 21st Century: Using New and Old Data to Support Monitoring of the 1733 San Pedro and San Felipe (2019)
  99. Documenting Subfloor Pits in a Slave Cabin at the Bulow Plantation (1821-1836), Flagler County, Florida (2016)
  100. Documenting the Seneca Stonecutter’s Cemetery (2022)