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. Following the Patterns: A Paper Trail Leading to Domestic Production at Catoctin Furnace (2018)
  2. Food Aboard! Eating & Drinking on French Frigates of the Early 18th century, according to La Natière Shipwrecks (2014)
  3. Food and a Frontier Community: History and Faunal Analysis on Samuel H. Smith Site in Nauvoo, Illinois (2019)
  4. Food at the Furnace: Piecing Together the Working Class Foodways at Catoctin Furnace (2018)
  5. Food for Thought: Comparing Diets of Enslaved People on Southern Plantations through Preliminary Faunal Analysis (2015)
  6. Food on the Frontier: Faunal Analysis from a Texas-Alsatian Homestead in Castroville, Texas (2018)
  7. Food Practices during the Late 18th Century in Northern Labrador (2014)
  8. Foodways at a Colonial Military Frontier Outpost in Northern New Spain:The Faunal Assemblage from Presidio San Sabá,1757-1772 (2018)
  9. Foodways at the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class at Hollywood Plantation (2018)
  10. Foodways in a Third Space (2018)
  11. Foodways in the 18th Century Mississippi Valley (2018)
  12. Foodways of La Concord/ Queen Anne’s Revenge (2022)
  13. Footprints on the Past: Preliminary Observations of the Footwear from Vasa (2020)
  14. Footwear on the Queen Anne’s Revenge, North Carolina Shipwreck 31CR314. (2018)
  15. "For I am tired of Cecesia": History and Archaeology of Confederate Guards and Union Prisoners of War at Camp Lawton (2020)
  16. "For Me, the Camera is a Sketchbook": a Quick and Low Cost Procedure for 3D Recording in situ Underwater Cultural Heritage. (2015)
  17. "For Sale By All Druggists": A Historical and Archaeological Look at Healthcare and Consumerism in Lincoln's Springfield (2018)
  18. "For the Convenience of its Guests": Archaeological Perspectives on the 18th-century Tavern Porch. (2022)
  19. "For the instruction of Negro Children in the Principles of the Christian religion": The Bray School Archaeological Project at the College of William and Mary. (2016)
  20. Force Analysis of Ancient Greco-Roman Rams and Warships (2017)
  21. Forces of Change: The 19th Century U.S. Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri River (and its Mid-20th Century Archaeological Investigations) (2018)
  22. Foreign Archaeology As An Extractive Practice (2023)
  23. Forensic Archaeological Approaches to Addressing Aircraft Wreck Sites in Underwater Contexts: The JPAC Perspective (2014)
  24. Forensic Archaeological Investigation and Recovery of Underwater U.S. Naval Aircraft Wreck Sites: Two Case Studies from Palau and Papua New Guinea (2016)
  25. Foreseeing Freedom: Discovery of an Enslaved Family’s Subfloor Storage Pit and Religious/Magical Shrine at the South Dependency Slave Quarters of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (44AR0017) (2021)
  26. Foresight, threat analysis and risk assessment of the marine historic environment of England: English Heritage’s development of new approaches and tools to aid heritage management (2013)
  27. A Forest for the Trees: Remote sensing applications and historic production at Cunningham Falls State Park (2016)
  28. Forestalling Liberation: Enslaved Refugees in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina, 1861-1865. (2018)
  29. Forged Forests: Landscapes of Iron in Salisbury, Connecticut (2023)
  30. Forged in Bone: Facial Reconstructions of Catoctin Furnace’s Enslaved Workers (2019)
  31. Forget Me Not: Charles Orser’s Unearthing of Hidden Ireland (2019)
  32. Forget We Not: Continuity and Change in Saba's Unique Burial Practices, Dutch Caribbean (2017)
  33. Forgetting (2016)
  34. Forgetting and Remembering "Poverty Row": A Case Study of the Pullman National Monument (2020)
  35. Forgetting, Hybridity, Revitalization, and Persistence: A Model for Understanding the Archaeology of Enslaved African Ritual Practice in the Early Chesapeake (2016)
  36. Forging a New Frontier for the Old: The Great Lakes’ Fox Wars of New France (2017)
  37. Forging Ahead: A Preliminary Analysis of the Buffalo Forge Iron Complex in Southwestern Virginia (2017)
  38. Forging the Way: An Analysis of Metallurgical Waste at Fort Ouiatenon (2023)
  39. Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo’s Old Cemeteries (2019)
  40. Forgotten Families of the Furnace: Ancestral Origins and Genetic Relationships Reflected in Death (2023)
  41. Forgotten Populations and Found Objects: Insight into the Remains of the Daily Life of the Overlooked Overseas Chinese (2019)
  42. "Forgotten" Labor in Northwest Florida: Investigating the 19th- and 20th-Century Maritime Workforce of Apalachicola (2023)
  43. Forks, Knives, and Spoons: Analyzing Unprovenienced Tablewares from Eighteenth Century Spanish Shipwrecks (2018)
  44. Formalizing Marginality: Comparative Perspectives On The 19th Century Irish Home (2016)
  45. The Formation of a West African Maritime Seascape: Atlantic Trade, Shipwrecks, and Formation Processes on the Coast of Ghana (2013)
  46. Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Sites in the French West Indies Through the Example of Guadeloupe: A First Approach  (2013)
  47. "A Formidable Looking Pile of Iron Boilers and Machinery": The Conservation and Reconstruction of USS Westfield. (2017)
  48. Forming The Footprint Of A City: 19th Century Consumerism And Material Identity In Christchurch, New Zealand (2016)
  49. Formulaic and Ad Hoc: Variability Among Society Of Jesus Missions in North America’s Middle Atlantic Region (2019)
  50. Fort Madison and Fort Severn: Jefferson's Second Seacoast Defense System as Employed in Annapolis, Maryland (2013)
  51. Fort Mose: Marginality in Spanish Florida (2023)
  52. Fort Ouiatenon and the Indian and French Fur Trade on the Wabash River (2023)
  53. Fort Ross, A Russian American Company Settlement On The California Coast (1812-1841) (2023)
  54. Fort San José, a Remote Spanish Outpost in Northwest Florida, 1700-1721 (2013)
  55. Fort San Juan: Lost (1568) and Found (2013) (2014)
  56. Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project: 2015 Field Season (2016)
  57. Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project: Public Outreach in the 2016 Field Season (2017)
  58. Fort Ticonderoga's 18th Century Tool Collection: Condition Assessment (2019)
  59. Fortifications among the Tikars in Cameroon. Temporal security borders and indicators of an autarchic economic and social life. (2015)
  60. A "Fortified Citadel": The Archaeology of an English Civil Wars Fortification in St. Mary's City, Maryland (2020)
  61. Forts on Burial Mounds: Strategies of Colonization in the Dakota Homeland (2016)
  62. Forts, Firebases and Art: ways of seeing the conflict landscape of Africa’s last colony – Western Sahara (2013)
  63. The Foundation of Fransciscan Missions: Trial and Error and Implications for Archaeological Research and Resource Management (2020)
  64. The Foundation of Meaning (2013)
  65. Foundations of a Community: The Synagogue Compound in Early Modern Barbados (2014)
  66. Four Ships, Three Years, Two Blocks: Managing Alexandria’s Derelict Merchant Fleet (2020)
  67. Four Years of Passport in Time: Public Archaeology and Professional Collaboration in a Nevada Ghost Town (2016)
  68. Fourth Annual SHA Ethics Bowl (2017)
  69. Fragile Narratives: Rewriting Ceramic History (2013)
  70. Fragments of Student Life: An Archaeometric Approach to Life on College Hill, Brown University, Providence, RI (2016)
  71. 'Frail cabins' and 'princely mansions': architecture and social hierarchy in early modern Munster (2013)
  72. Frames, Futtocks, and a Fistful of Coins: the Final Report of the Corolla Wreck, North Carolina's Oldest Known Ship Remains (2015)
  73. Framing Pattern and Shipwright Agency: Understanding the Uniformization of the French Navy in the Late 17th century (2020)
  74. Framing the questions that matter: the relationship between archaeology and conservation (2014)
  75. Framing the View: The Transformation of Land Use along the California Coast during the World War Eras (2020)
  76. François Janis, Jean Ribault, and Clarisse, a Free Woman of Color: A Discussion of Exclusion, Structural Violence, and Privilege in Ste. Genevieve (2016)
  77. The Fredericksburg Slave Auction Block: A Material Reminder of Race Relations in Virginia (2020)
  78. Free Black Perspectives in Easton, Maryland (2014)
  79. Free, Black, And Traveling: An Analysis Of The Passports Issued To New Orleans Gens De Couleur Libre, 1818-1831 (2022)
  80. Freedom and Community in Urban New England (2014)
  81. Freedom and/or Sovereignty in Black Mobile (2023)
  82. Freedom Come: The Archaeology of Postemancipation Life in Dominica (2017)
  83. Freedom From Worry: Douching as a Material Culture Case Study in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Women’s Health (2014)
  84. Freedom in Florida: Maroons Making Do in the Colonial Borderland (2018)
  85. Freedom Narratives: Illegal Slavery, Liminal Spaces, and Nascent Colonialism on the Freetown Peninsula. (2023)
  86. Freedom on the Frontier: The Archaeology of the Black Regulars of Fort Davis (2017)
  87. The Freeman Family Of Black Governors: Agency And Resistance Through Three Generations (2019)
  88. French Colonial Pottery recovered from Recent Excavations in NW Louisiana and Deep East Texas (2014)
  89. "The French Engineer Burst A 24-Pounder In The Fort At Red Banks": Contextualizing An Accidental Artifact (2022)
  90. The French Fleet of 1565 (2014)
  91. French Fort St. Joseph in Global Context (2023)
  92. French Hegemony in Spanish Louisiana and the Collapse of Mercantilism (2014)
  93. French Migrations to Acadia:An Old Lifestyle in a New Setting (2014)
  94. French Military Arms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Flintlock Fusils from the 17th-Century Wreck of La Belle (2014)
  95. French military lunettes at Ft. Bridger, WY (2016)
  96. The French or the British: Who Built "Better" Ships? (2020)
  97. The Fresh Air Association House of St. John the Divine Historic and Archaeological District (the Fresh Air District), Tomkins Cove, New York (2018)
  98. Fresh Light on Drake and Company’s Sojourn on the West Coast of America in 1579 (2014)
  99. Friend or Foe: Constructing the National Identity of Japanese American Children in Amache, a WWII Internment Center (2015)
  100. From "Patch[es] of Nowhere" to Somewhere: Placing Sites of Racial Violence on the Dallas Landscape (2023)