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 • Material Culture • Plantation • 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. Don’t Hold Your Breath – Initiating Community Projects and Public Engagement through an Invested Collaboration in Maritime Archaeology (2016)
  2. Don’t Hold Your Breath – Initiating Community Projects and Public Engagement through an Invested Collaboration in Maritime Archaeology (2016)
  3. Don’t Let it Die: Reinvestigating the 1948 Donora Smog Tragedy through an Archaeological Approach (2016)
  4. Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees: Considerations for the Conservation of Artifacts from Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site’s Waterfront (2016)
  5. Don’t put your village where the land grows : Early state presence in Eastern James Bay, Canada and the settlement history of the Wemindji Cree Nation (2014)
  6. A Door to Another World: Entering the Great Cabin on Vasa (2020)
  7. “’Double-Barreled Chimnies’”: Discovering an Irish Landscape in Central Virginia (2014)
  8. "Doubled with wood in every direction": The Hull Structure and Outfitting of a Royal Navy Ship of Polar Exploration (2013)
  9. "…down amongst the bears and dogs…": Investigations of an Animal Baiting Pit at the Calvert House Site, Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (2017)
  10. Down in the Dumps: An Introduction to Feature 7 at the Pierce Hichborn House (2020)
  11. Down in the Trenches: A New Chapter in the Exploration of Fort St. Joseph (2020)
  12. Down, Down, Down in the Depths: A Critical Look at Deepwater Archaeology and Public Outreach in the Gulf of Mexico (2014)
  13. A Downed Grumman F6F Hellcat in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (2023)
  14. DPAA's Efforts to Address Unresolved U.S. Military Overwater and In-water Loss Incidents and Underwater Sites (2017)
  15. Dr. Jayne’s Skyscraper: The Chestnut Street Building that Housed a Patent Medicine Empire (2016)
  16. Drake or Cermeño: The Riddle Of A 16th Century Pig At Pt. Reyes National Seashore. (2024)
  17. Drawing From The Well: The Life Of A Founding Family, Boise, Idaho, 1864-1907 (2015)
  18. Drayton Hall Reimagined: New Perspectives on the Commercial, Ornamental and Intellectual Landscapes of John Drayton (c.1715-1779) (2015)
  19. "A Dreadful Scene of Havock": Richard Mansergh St. George and the Battles of Brandywine, Paoli, and Germantown (2022)
  20. Dresden Porcelain Project (2018)
  21. Dress, Labor, and Choice: An Intersectional Analysis of Clothing and Adornment Artifacts (2020)
  22. Dried Fish Trade and the Social and Political Landscape of Viking Age Iceland (2023)
  23. Drinking Buddies: Wine Bottle Seals as a Window on Williamsburg’s Social Scene. (2022)
  24. Drinking, Laundry, and Haircuts: Framing Nikkei Material Culture in the Context of "Moral Reform" Politics at Barneston, WA (1907-1924) (2022)
  25. Drone-based Survey to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts on Scotland’s Eroding Coastal Heritage (2023)
  26. Dry Ice Blasting Research and Testing for the Conservation of Metal Objects (2018)
  27. Du Luth and Hennepin among the Dakota: The Archaeology of Initial French Exploration West of Lake Superior (2014)
  28. Du Luth and Hennepin among the Dakota: The Archaeology of Initial French Exploration West of Lake Superior (2014)
  29. Du port de Saint-Pierre à la Place Royale et du port de Tropeyte à la Promenade du Chapeau Rouge : Waterfront Archaeology à Bordeaux (France), XVIe - XVIIIe siècles (2014)
  30. Du Pratz's Dishes: Colonoware from Fort Rosalie, and the Paradox of Globalization (2015)
  31. Du sucre au cognac, l’évolution d’un îlot d’habitation rochelais de la fin du XVIIe siècle au XIXe siècle à travers le site du 23 rue du Duc (2014)
  32. The Duality of Maize: Lessons in a Contextual Archaeology of Foodways (2016)
  33. Dunkerhook: An African American Enclave In Paramus, New Jersey (2022)
  34. Dunkerhook: Transition, Acculturation, and Resilience (2022)
  35. Dust-Lined Boxes and Warehouses: A Re-Analysis of 17th Century Archaeological Collections from Fort Eustis, VA (2016)
  36. Dutch Artifacts in the NYC Archaeological Repository: The Nan A. Rothschild Repository Center (2022)
  37. Dutch fishing and trading in Iceland and the Northern Isles of Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries (2022)
  38. The Dutch in the Hudson Valley (2022)
  39. Dutch Treats: Archaeological Evidence of the Dutch Trade with Seventeenth-Century Virginians (2020)
  40. Dwelling in Space through Knowledge of Place: Building on Epistemological Understandings of the Seventeenth-Century British Atlantic (2014)
  41. Dwelling While Crossing: Migrant Mobility, Material Memory, and Religious Place-Making in the Sonoran Desert (2018)
  42. "Dying Like Sheep There": Racial Ideology and Concepts of Health at a Camp of Instruction for the U.S. Colored Troops in Charles County, Maryland (2019)
  43. Dynamic models for reconstructing ancient coastal landscapes: the use of the MAXENT algorithm (2013)
  44. Dynamics of a Post-Sugar Montserrat in the Era of Lime (2023)
  45. The Dynamics of Inuit/European Interactions as seen from Sandwich Bay, Labrador (2014)
  46. The Dynamics of Small Things Remembered: Giving Voice to A Silenced Past (2022)
  47. The Dynamite Bombings of African-American Homes in mid-20th Century Dallas: Anarchistic Perspectives and Resurrecting the Memory of Domestic Terrorism (2017)
  48. The Dyottville Glass Factory: Tracing the Evolution of the Dyottville Glass Works via Interactive 3D Reconstruction (2016)
  49. The Dyottville Glass Works, 1816 - 1901 (2016)
  50. E Ola Mau ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi: Pushing for more ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi-centered research in Hawaiian archaeology (2024)
  51. The Earliest Bioarchaeological Evidence of the African Diaspora in Renaissance Romania (2017)
  52. Earliest European Contact among the Neutral (2014)
  53. An Early "Treasure" – Reexamining the 1554 Spanish Plate Fleet Shipwrecks of Texas at 50 years (2020)
  54. Early 19th Century Mobility And Complexity On The Basque Rangelands In The Western Pyrenees (France) (2023)
  55. An Early 20th-Century Midden from Fort Davis, TX (2017)
  56. Early American Whiteware and the Emerging Middle-Class Market: Archaeology at the Lewis Pottery, Louisville, Kentucky (2022)
  57. Early Architecture at James Fort: The Transformation of a Traditional Architectural Form in a Colonial Context. (2013)
  58. Early Basque Presence In The Gulf Of Maine: First Results And Future Research Threads (2020)
  59. Early Colonial Livestock in the Northern Neck: A View from Coan Hall (2023)
  60. Early Colonial Material Entanglements at Tlaxcallan, Mexico: Insights from a Polychrome Ceramic Sherd Disk (2020)
  61. Early Colonial Meat Provisioning On Maryland’s Western Shore (2021)
  62. Early Colonial Meat Provisioning on Maryland’s Western Shore (2020)
  63. Early Encounters on a Western Frontier: The Search for Sv. Nikolai (2024)
  64. Early Historic Salt-making Sites in South Arkansas (2021)
  65. Early Industry and Environmental Change in New England: the Seventeenth-Century Doane Site on Cape Cod, MA (2023)
  66. Early Medieval Deviant Burials in the Czech Republic (2013)
  67. Early Medieval Slavic Industry: Na V’elách, a Great Moravian Craft Production Suburb (2014)
  68. Early Modern Nordic Glass Finds as Indicators of Poverty and Plenty (2023)
  69. Early Modern Shipwrecks Database (2018)
  70. Early New York Oyster Jars (2020)
  71. Early Norwegian Settlers on the Texas Frontier: Uncovering the Home of Cleng Peerson (2017)
  72. Early pottery manufacturing in Sydney, Australia, 1801-1830 (2013)
  73. Early Sixteenth-Century Shipbuilding in Mexico: Dimensions and Tonnages of the Vessels Designed for Pacific Ocean Navigation (2018)
  74. An Early Twentieth Century Ceramic Assemblage from a Burned House in Northern Georgia (2015)
  75. An Early Twentieth Century Ceramic Assemblage from a Burned House in Northern Georgia (2014)
  76. East Carolina University and Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Partnership Projects in Saipan, CNMI (2020)
  77. The East India Company on the Bandon River 1608 to 1620 (2013)
  78. East Meets West: An East Indian token in the Western Colonies (2014)
  79. East Meets West: Indigenous Use of Indo-Pacific Cowries on the Great Plains (2020)
  80. East Tennessee Earthenware: Continuing The Tradition (2016)
  81. Eat This In Remembrance: The Zooarchaeological Analysis of Secular and Religious Estancias in 17th- Century New Mexico (2020)
  82. The Ecclesiastical Economy. The Power of the Church in Post-Reformation Iceland (2023)
  83. Echoes of Memory: Ground-Truthing a Cemetery Geophysical Survey and Reclaiming a Forgotten Burial Ground of Mount Vernon’s Enslaved Community. (2019)
  84. Echoes of Rebellion: Cultural Reverberation of the 1790s St. Domingue Rebellion in the Delaware Valley (2022)
  85. Ecological Change at James Madison's Montpelier (2019)
  86. The Economic Contexts of Small Finds from Gullah Geechee Occupations (2022)
  87. Economic Landscapes at Arcadia (2020)
  88. Economic Opportunity and Community Building at Boston’s African Meeting House (2014)
  89. Economies of Duration in Urban Archaeology (2013)
  90. The Edge of the World: Settlement, Production, and Trade in Early American Southwest Arkansas (2013)
  91. Educating a Research Team. Experiences and Results from the Vasa Textiles Project (2018)
  92. Educating Margaritaville: Maritime Heritage Outreach in the Florida Keys (2017)
  93. Educating The Masses: The Role Of Volunteers And Interns In The Archaeological Process (2016)
  94. Educating The Public About Archeological Excavations (2019)
  95. Education as a form of la perruque at Emancipation on Barbados (2015)
  96. Education as Resistance: The African School and New Guinea Community on Nantucket (2018)
  97. Education in Maritime Archaeology: Universities, Capacity Building, and the Internet (2016)
  98. Education Where You Least Expect It: Expanding Access to Submerged Cultural Resources in the Time of a Global Pandemic (2021)
  99. Educational Benefits of Collaborative Youth Archaeological Programs  (2013)
  100. Edward Byrd’s Mass-Production of EB Tobacco Pipes for Sale to New Netherland Natives and the 17th Century Delaware River (2022)