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. Fauna and Frontiersmen: Environmental Change in Historic Maine (2017)
  2. Faunal Analysis of a Late Colonial Midden at Mission San Fransisco de la Espada, San Antonio, TX. (2018)
  3. Faunal Data from Calder Alley, San Antonio, Texas (2020)
  4. Fears, Frontiers, and Third Spaces: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in the Early Modern British Atlantic (2017)
  5. Feature 43: Re-examining Cultural Relationships and Trade in 17th Century Charlestown, MA (2018)
  6. Features of War: The Archaeology of Defense, Skirmish and Occupation at Captain Jack’s Stronghold, Lava Beds National Monument (2015)
  7. Feeding the Confined: Faunal Analysis of Hyde Park Barracks (2019)
  8. Feeding the Crew: Foodways and Faunal Remains at Reaume’s Trading Post Site, Central Minnesota (2013)
  9. Feeling Queer(ed) (2015)
  10. Felons, Paupers, Or Overflow Burials? Un(der)-documented Burials In One Of Philadelphia’s Public Squares. (2022)
  11. Females in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in 1910. (2018)
  12. A Feminist Intersectional Perspective On Symbolic Meanings Of Statues Of Women (2023)
  13. Feminist Post-colonial Theory and the Gendering and Sexing of Colonial landscapes in Western North America (2015)
  14. A Feudal Domain on the Virginia Frontier: The Germanna Plantation Landscape (2014)
  15. Field Methods for Excavation of a Culturally Modified Timber on Site 20UM723 in Lake Michigan (2014)
  16. Field of Dreams: Archaeology and Education Hermitage Style (2018)
  17. Fields and farms in Ireland, 1650-1850: landscape archaeologies of improvement (2013)
  18. Fieldwork and Footprints: Identifying Former Slave Villages on the Island of St. Eustatius (2014)
  19. Fifteen years downstream’ ...Reflections on the HMS Swift Archaeological Project (Argentina) (2014)
  20. Fifth Annual SHA Ethics Bowl (2018)
  21. Fight or Flight at Fort Fair Haven: A U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 Settlers' Fort and the Historical Imagination (2019)
  22. Filling In a Clean Slate: A Case Study of Urban Redevelopment after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (2022)
  23. Finding a Home in the Global Shtetl: The Archaeology of Jewish Placemaking in the Diaspora (2018)
  24. Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles: Using Experimental Archaeology to Find Shipwrecks of Hernan Cortés (2020)
  25. Finding a Path Through the Trees: Using Multiple Lines of Evidence to Understand the Association of Culturally Modified Trees and the Community in Steilacoom, Washington (2018)
  26. Finding Alcatrazes – the lost 15th century settlement on Cape Verde (2013)
  27. Finding And Interpreting Future Conflict Sites: The Williamson’s Plantation Battlefield Example (2018)
  28. Finding and Understanding the 17th-Century John Hollister Site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut (2020)
  29. Finding Bia Ogoi: The Application of Historic Documents and Geomorphology to the Understanding of 19th Century Landscape Change of the Bear River Valley, Franklin County, Idaho (2017)
  30. Finding Faces in the Yellow Brick Road: The Elusive Lives and Deaths of St. Croix’s Residents with Leprosy (2022)
  31. Finding Fort Shackelford: A lost U.S. Army Fort from the Seminole War Era. (2017)
  32. Finding Forts and Their Communities: CEO and His Two Cents (2019)
  33. Finding Foundations: Exploring an Early Stockade Residence in Schenectady, New York (2017)
  34. Finding HMS Amethyst; A 32-Gun Royal Navy Napoleonic Frigate (2018)
  35. Finding HMS Erebus: The Role of Terrestrial Archaeological Investigations (2016)
  36. Finding Little Egypt (2017)
  37. Finding Lulu and Annie: A Cold Case (2018)
  38. Finding Meemaw (2023)
  39. Finding New Netherland in New Jersey: Two or Three Dutch Needles in a Supersized Haystack (2022)
  40. Finding Nouvelle Acadie: Lost Colonies, Collective Memory, and Public Archaeology as an Expedition of Discovery (2017)
  41. Finding Our Place: Uncovering Queer Hidden Heritage in the U.S. with the National Park Service (2016)
  42. Finding Robert Cotton: an archaeological biography of the first English tobacco pipemaker in the New World (2014)
  43. Finding Sites in Urban Places: A 17th-Century Native American Fortified Settlement in Norwalk, Connecticut (2020)
  44. Finding Some Good in the Bad and the Ugly: Critical Views and Lessons-Learned from Public Archaeology and Outreach Programs (2019)
  45. Finding Successful Solutions for Environmental, Engineering, Cultural Resources, and Public Relations Challenges at the Presidio of San Francisco, California (2015)
  46. Finding Suckerville: Relocating Dene Sųłiné Sites in a Landscape of Erasure (2023)
  47. Finding The 1526 Flagship Of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (2020)
  48. Finding the Children: Searching for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential School Sites in Canada (2023)
  49. Finding the French in Fairfax County, Virginia (2018)
  50. Finding The Indigenous – A Study Of Locally Made Earthenware In Early Spanish Manila, The Philippines (2017)
  51. Finding the Mikveh: Using technology to confirm oral histories at an early 20th century site in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2015)
  52. Finding the Russian Village at Fort Ross: GPR and Magnetometer Survey (2015)
  53. Finding the “Best Clays”: A Geoarchaeological Approach toward Understanding Redware Production in Colonial Barbados (2014)
  54. Finding Thomas Green: Freedom Seekers in the Archaeological Record (2020)
  55. Finding Women in their Lost Possessions: Personal Artifacts at the Luna Settlement (2023)
  56. Finding Your Way Through the Years: Looking Back at Past Position Fixing Methods Used at Parks Canada (2014)
  57. Fine English ware from the 19th century at the Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal (2014)
  58. A Fine Wreck in Shallow Water: The Excavation and in situ Conservation of the Soldier Key Wreck (2014)
  59. "Finery and Small Comforts": The intersection of gender, consumerism, and slavery in nineteenth century Virginia (2015)
  60. Finest Fare: Faunal Analysis of the Glen Eyrie Midden Assemblages (2020)
  61. Finishes and Flourishes: Ceramic Encounters at the Edges of Empire in Spanish Colonial Central Mexico (2017)
  62. Finite Element Modelling of the Wreck of USS Arizona (2020)
  63. Finnish Private Chapels: Research Ethics And Preservation Of Cultural Heritage (2023)
  64. Fins and Scales: A Zooarchaeological Exploration of Nationality, Religion, and Foodways in the Port Richmond Neighborhood of Philadelphia (2022)
  65. Fire, Clay, and Microscopes: Micromorphology at the Little Bay Plantation Site in Montserrat, W.I. (2013)
  66. Firearm Identification and Cartridge Comparison using Three Dimensional Photogrammetry to Compare Firing Pin Impressions and Tool Marks. (2017)
  67. Fired Rifle Cartridges as an Archaeological Tool for Dating Later Historical Sites: Harrington Histograms and Measures of Central Tendency (2020)
  68. Fireplaces and Foundations: Architecture at Fort St. Joseph (2016)
  69. Fires in the Mountains: forest fires, charcoal, and lumber at Catoctin Furnace (2023)
  70. First a Burial Ground, then a Parade Ground, then a Park, then a Revelation (2018)
  71. The First Abbey in the New World – an Expression of Power and Ideology (2015)
  72. First Aid in the Field: Creating a Conservation Protocol for the Recovery of Brunswick Town Artifacts (2020)
  73. The First Emanuel Point Ship: Archaeological Investigation of a 16th-Century Spanish Colonization Vessel (2016)
  74. First evidences of colonial cultural contact in Northeast Argentina. Settlement and material culture at Sancti Spiritus Fort, 1527-1529 (Puerto Gaboto, Argentina) (2013)
  75. First Person Archaeology: Exploring Fort St. Joseph through Go-Pro Footage (2016)
  76. Fish and Fowl: An examination of changes in Wendat subsistence practices from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries (2014)
  77. Fish and Shellfish Exploitation During the Spanish Colonial Era in California at Mission Santa Clara deAsís. (2023)
  78. Fish or Flint? A Cursory Examination of a Method for Identifying Buried Lithic Artifacts Underwater (2020)
  79. Fishing and foraging strategies among enslaved children at Stewart Castle, Jamaica (2014)
  80. Fishing Gear in the North-western Part of the Iberian Peninsula at Roman Times: the Underwater Deposit of Clay Weights in the Moaña Marina (Galicia, Spain) (2023)
  81. Fishy Business: Investigations At The Fairchild Fish House, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (2018)
  82. Fitting Overseers Into The Plantation Picture: Spatial Analysis At The Oval Site (2015)
  83. Five Feet High and Rising: Flood Impacts to Archaeological Sites and Response Efforts at Death Valley National Park (2017)
  84. Five Pounds Beef, Five Pounds Poi, and One Gallon Milk: Archaeological and Social Implications of Employee Meat Allowances on Hawaiʻi's Parker Ranch (2017)
  85. Five Sites, Sixty Miles, and Nine Tons of Discovery: Spring 2016 Research On and In the Potomac River (2017)
  86. Flat Ontologies, Identity and Space at Carolina Forts (2016)
  87. Flats, Steamers, and Ironclads: The Impassable Confederate Defense of Mobile Bay (2015)
  88. Fleets of Cahuita: Recording and Interpreting the Costa Rica Fishing Boats (2016)
  89. "Flesh Wounds": Migrant Injuries and the Archaeological Traces of Pain (2015)
  90. Flexibility, Resilience, and Universal Design: Learning from the Experiences of Disabled Archaeologists (2021)
  91. Flint Ballast, Rocky Connections With Europe (2016)
  92. A Flood of Data: Site Resiliency in and Along Virginia’s Rivers (2023)
  93. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Historical Resources Management Update (2020)
  94. Florida Tales Through Ales: Archaeology Interpretation through Historically Inspired Ales (2020)
  95. A Flying Coffin Discovered in Midway Atoll Lagoon: The Archaeological Investigation of a Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (2014)
  96. Flying High In An Unfriendly Sky: The Aviation Cultural Landscape of Malta During The Second World War (2020)
  97. Foamy, Fermented and Fractionated: Does Beer Consumption Create Confusion for Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Humans? (2023)
  98. Folklore, Fishing Art, and Free Divers: The Cahuita Community (2016)
  99. Following the Drinking Gourd: Considering the Celestial Landscape (2018)
  100. Following the Pattern: Using Transferprints to Refine 19th Century Site Chronologies (2018)