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. Excavating Emotion on a Maryland Plantation (2016)
  2. Excavating Experience: Exploring Delhi’s mid-century housing through literature and streetscape survey (2021)
  3. Excavating local myths in the St. Lawrence estuary (2014)
  4. Excavating Personhood in the 19th-Century Graveyard (2016)
  5. Excavating the Motor City: Structural Racism and the "Archaeological Record" in Detroit (2018)
  6. Excavating The ‘Green Redcoat’:Historical Archaeology And New Approaches To The Irish Military Tradition And Experience In The British Army, 1815-1919 (2020)
  7. Excavating WWII U.S. Military Underwater Losses: A Case Study of B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber excavated in Viterbo province, Italy (2023)
  8. 'Excavating' The 1916 Rising: Archaeology And The Resistance Of Popular Narrative. (2020)
  9. Excavation and Conservation of Waterlogged Archaeological Textile from the American Civil War Submarine H.L.Hunley (2020)
  10. An Excavation of Data from Dusty File Cabinets: Carolina Artifact Pattern Data of Colonial Period Households, Kitchens, and Public Structures from Brunswick Town (2016)
  11. The Excavation of the Wreck of the Lune; a Laboratory for the Archaeology of the Abyss (2014)
  12. Excavation to Exhibition: Archaeological Research and Stories of the African Diaspora (2013)
  13. Excavation to Exhibition: Archaeology and a New Narrative for Plantation Museums (2013)
  14. Excavations at Historic Jacksonport State Park (3JA53) (2015)
  15. Excavations at Historic Neelsville: life as a tenant blacksmith (2016)
  16. Excavations at the Howe Pottery: A Late Nineteenth-Century Kiln in Benton, Arkansas (2016)
  17. Excavations in the carriage house basement of the Sorrel-Weed House (2018)
  18. Excavations in the Rock Springs Chinatown, Wyoming1868-1932 (2022)
  19. An Exceptional 18th-Century Apothecary Furniture Set Found in Evreux Ditches: Ceramics, Glass and Masséot-Abaquesne Faïences (2014)
  20. Exchange, Entanglement, and ‘Freedom’: British Anti-Slavery and Nascent Colonialism in coastal Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution. (2020)
  21. An Exercise in Epistemic Disobedience: Implementing De-colonial Methods at the Site of Portobelo, Panamá (2014)
  22. Exhibitions of Gentility at George Washington’s Boyhood Home (2013)
  23. Exhumation And Reburial Of The War Dead By The Black Cross In Austria Between 1918 And 1938 From An Archaeological Perspective (2018)
  24. Exotic consumption: the character and changes in significance of Chinese porcelain used in 18th-century Copenhagen. (2013)
  25. Expanding KOCOA’s Potential: The Role of a West Point Military Academy Education on the Second Seminole War Florida (1835-1842) (2015)
  26. Expanding the Carceral State: The Early Penitentiaries of Louisiana and Arkansas (2021)
  27. Expanding the Dialogue: A Conversation Between Descendent and Archaeologist about Community, Collaboration, and Archaeology at Timbuctoo, NJ (2017)
  28. Expanding the Historical Archaeology of College Hill: Updates in Excavation, Digital Technologies, and Outreach in Providence, Rhode Island (2017)
  29. The expansion and influence of Catholicism within the development of the Oregon Territory: A case study of St. Joseph’s College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys in the region (2014)
  30. Expedition Costa Rica: Cahuita’s Brick and Cannon Shipwreck Sites (2016)
  31. Experience Counts: Solutions Historical Archaeologists Can Provide in Response to Climate Change (2016)
  32. Experiencing Fort Recovery, Ohio: Balancing Descendent Views in Historic Site Interpretation (2019)
  33. Experiencing place: an auto-ethnography on digging and belonging (2014)
  34. Experiencing Repression in a Gulag Camp: A Challenging Integration of Historical Archaeology, Pedagogy, and Virtual Reality (2023)
  35. Experimental Metal Detection in the Investigations of Illegal Slave Trade Sites in Nineteenth Century Guinea (2014)
  36. Experimental Treatment Conservation Report of Waterlogged Paper Artifacts from the Brother Jonathan Shipwreck (2023)
  37. Experiments on particle physics using underwater cultural heritage: the dilemma (2014)
  38. Expessing ethnic identity in a French town: study of the Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272) in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (2017)
  39. An Exploration of Newfoundland's Pre-Confederation Logging Industry: 1850-1949 (2023)
  40. An Exploration of the Moral Ecologies of Spanish and English Colonists in North America (2023)
  41. Exploring "Clocker’s Acre": The Architecture of a Colonial Period Building (2018)
  42. Exploring African American Life through Small Finds from Poplar Forest’s Wing of Offices (2019)
  43. Exploring Age in the Chinese Diaspora (2018)
  44. Exploring Anthropogenic Causes of St. Croix's Environmental Conditions (2023)
  45. Exploring Cultural Resource Management’s Contribution to Historical Archaeology, 1967–2014 (2016)
  46. Exploring Domestic Food Origins of the Chinese Community At Terrace (42bo547) Through Isotopic Studies (2021)
  47. Exploring Domestic Food Origins of The Chinese Community At Terrace (42BO547) Through Isotopic Studies (2022)
  48. Exploring Economic Priorities of Protohistoric Communities: Case studies from Northeastern North America and Roman Britannia (2020)
  49. Exploring Female and Male Ideals, Roles, and Activities at a Colonial through Civil War Landscape at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site, North Carolina (2016)
  50. Exploring Foodways at the Baltimore Aged Men and Women's Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870-1920. (2022)
  51. Exploring Healthcare Practices of Chinese Railroad Workers in North America (2015)
  52. Exploring Healthcare Practices of Chinese Railroad Workers in North America (2015)
  53. Exploring Infatigable (1855): First insights from Archaeology into the mid-Nineteenth Century Chilean Navy (2018)
  54. Exploring Landscapes of Political Violence through Collaborative Archaeology (2018)
  55. Exploring Material Change on Contemporary Pre- and Post-Emancipation Sites in the US and Caribbean. (2018)
  56. Exploring Molasses Reef: A Cultural Landscape Analysis (2020)
  57. Exploring Old Avenues in New Ways: Urban Archaeology and Public Outreach in Detroit (2015)
  58. Exploring Processes of Racialization in Nineteenth Century Nantucket, Massachusetts (2018)
  59. Exploring Racial Formation in Early 19th Century New York City (2016)
  60. Exploring the Archaeological Potential of Historic Ordnance Kept and Displayed in Ports and Colonial Maritime Fortifications of Mexico (2020)
  61. Exploring The Architecture Of "My Lord’s Gift": An Analysis Of A Ca. 1658 - Ca.1750 Archaeological Site In Queen Anne, County, Maryland (2017)
  62. Exploring the concept of «taskscape» and living landscapes in archaeology: a case study of the French fishing room Champ Paya (2014)
  63. Exploring the Environmental Conditions of 17th Century Spanish Ranches in New Mexico (2016)
  64. Exploring the Indigenous Experience of Saipan in World War II (2018)
  65. Exploring the Indigenous Roots of the Canary Islands’ Sugar Industry (Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Spain, 15th-16th Centuries) (2023)
  66. Exploring the Layers and Elements at the Center of Jefferson’s Retreat Landscape (2018)
  67. Exploring the Matter of Mary in Early Colonial Ecuador: Indigenous Appropriations and Material Substrates (2023)
  68. Exploring The Merchandise Of The Pon Yam Store In Idaho City: What Do We Tell The Public About Chinese Olives And Dracontomelon? (2015)
  69. Exploring the Pattern of Black and White Bead Use within African American Domestic Spaces (2020)
  70. Exploring the Perils and Promise of Community Engaged Archaeology at Xaltocan, Mexico (2021)
  71. Exploring the Social and Physical Landscapes of Colonial New Mexico (2015)
  72. Exploring Transatlantic Connections: Sustaining Irish Island Communities in Early 20th Century America (2013)
  73. Exploring Wellbeing at Great Lakes Lighthouses (2021)
  74. Explosion aboard Steamer USS Tulip: Site Investigations and Management of a Union Gunboat Wreck of the American Civil War (2017)
  75. Exposing Toxic Legacies: The Archaeology of Military Contamination in Labrador (2020)
  76. Expressions of Ethnicity in a Modern World, Archaeological and Historical Traces of Pre-WWII Japanese-American Culture (2017)
  77. Extracting Information from Concentrations of Desiccated Plant Remains (2022)
  78. Extreme Makeover: Transforming New York City’s Common (2014)
  79. Extreme Public Archaeology : Excavating the 1645 Boston Latin School Campus Along Boston's Freedom Trail (2016)
  80. The Eyreville Site (44NH0507), Northampton County, Virginia: The Dutch Connection in the Middle 17th-Century (2020)
  81. Faceted Finds: Lapidary Beads at Jamestown, Virginia (2023)
  82. Facilitated dialogue: A new emphasis, or pedagogical shift for the interpretation of cultural heritage sites? (2018)
  83. "Facilitating Frontier Trade: Supply Logistics at Fort San Marcos de Apalache, a Spanish Outpost in the Borderlands of La Florida, 1677-1796"  (2015)
  84. Facing a Mystery: An Anthropomorphic Clay Head (Re)Discovered at Nomini Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia (2020)
  85. Facing the Past: Forensic Facial Reconstruction at Catoctin Furnace and its Role in Public Outreach (2023)
  86. Factors Affecting the HALD Method: Implications for the Industry (2022)
  87. The Faith Adaptations in Colonial Mauritius (2020)
  88. The Fallacy of Whiteware (2016)
  89. Falling in the Deep End: Interpretation of Archaeological Sites in Deep Water (2014)
  90. A False Sense Of Status?: The Ceramic And Glass Wares Of Lower Working Class Irish In The City Of Detroit During Rapid Industrialization (2018)
  91. Families Inside and Out: Family Relationships and Institutional Healthcare at a Leper Hospital in St. Croix, USVI (2022)
  92. Families on the Frontier (2015)
  93. Family History from the Kitchen: A Household-Based Analysis of Ceramic Use in a Mult-Generational Homestead and Garrison Site (2023)
  94. Fanning the Flames: Responding to Covid-19 as an Endangered Public Site (2021)
  95. Far From Home: A Proposed Identification of the Winks Wreck, Kitty Hawk, N.C. as the Bristol-Built Steamship Mountaineer (2018)
  96. Farmer Priests: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Middle Atlantic Jesuit Mission (2019)
  97. Farmstead Archaeology in North America (2013)
  98. The Fast Track to Borrow Tool (2017)
  99. The Fate of Far West: Geophysical Investigations to Locate the Wreck of an Iconic Upper Missouri Mountain Packet Steamboat (2019)
  100. Fate of Our Fathers: An Assessment of Mental Health Among African American Archaeologists (2019)