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. Fusing Multiple Remote-Sensing Technologies to Identify the Elusive Barricade from the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (2016)
  2. A Future for Photogrammetry: The Application of the Multi-Camera "SeaArray" to Visualize the Underwater Realm of the National Park Service (2020)
  3. Future of Climate Change: A Discussion on the Importance of Protecting Historic Vessels. (2023)
  4. The Future of Collections Driven Research is Digital: Proper Care for Long Term Preservation and Access (2017)
  5. The Future of Maritime Archaeology (2016)
  6. Future of the Project and Collections (2023)
  7. Fuzziness of Autonomy and Vassality: Materiality of History in OrileKesi during the Oyo Imperial Age, ca. 1640-1827 (2013)
  8. Gainer Historical Cemetery: A Modern Reconnection to a "Lost" Cultural Landscape Not Actually Forgotten. (2013)
  9. Galeão Santíssimo Sacramento (1668): an Iberian galleon in the South Atlantic seas in the middle of the 17th century (2020)
  10. Galleons for a Transatlantic World (2013)
  11. Gallivanting Capitalism: Nineteenth-Century European Travelers in the Deserts of the Andean South (2019)
  12. The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast: A Cursory Site Assessment of WWII Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (2015)
  13. Galápagos Sugar Empire: The Mechanization of the El Progreso Plantation, 1880-1917 (2016)
  14. Games and Gamification as Transformative Pedagogy in the Archaeology and Art History Classroom (2021)
  15. Gaming in The Dalles: The Presence of Asian Coins and Glass Gaming Pieces in a Small Town Laundry (2017)
  16. Gamming Chairs and Gimballed Beds: Women aboard 19th-century Ships (2014)
  17. Garden and Landscape Archaeology at the Robert Carter House in Williamsburg, Virginia (2019)
  18. A Garden Inferior to Few: Landscape Archaeology at Custis Square, Williamsburg, Virginia (2020)
  19. Garden produce, mass market goods, and other plant remains from four features at an urban, residential site in Iowa City, 1830-1940 (2017)
  20. Garden Sacrifice: Making Sense of Changing Livelihoods In Late-19th Century Bogotá (2023)
  21. Garonne Valley coarse earthenware. Characterization of Cox productions, 16th - 18th centuries (2014)
  22. Gaspé Bay Shipwreck Survey (2020)
  23. Gathering Glass: Community Ideals and Identity in Black Boston (2020)
  24. Gaucho Mate, Chicharron, and Magnetometry in the "Land of Fire"; The Search for the Oldest Known Shipwreck in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. (2020)
  25. Gauging Latino Interest in Historic Places and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of the Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail, Tucson, Arizona. (2016)
  26. Gauging the Impact of Community Archaeology: A View from Boise, Idaho (2018)
  27. Gemstone Mining in the Mojave Desert: Francis Marion "Shady" Myrick. (2017)
  28. Gender And Adaptation On The Texas Frontier (2017)
  29. Gender and Health Consumerism among Enslaved Virginians (2016)
  30. Gender Differentiation in Jewish Memorials: An Ethnoarchaeological Examination of the Headstones in the B'nai Israel Cemetery (2015)
  31. Gender Ideals In 19th And 20th Century Easton, Maryland: An Analysis of Toys and Family Planning Material In Historically African-American Communities (2016)
  32. Gender, Conflict, and Weapons in the 17th Century North Atlantic World (2022)
  33. Gender, Gentility, and Revolution:  Detecting Women’s Influence on Household Consumption in Eighteenth Century Connecticut (2013)
  34. Gender, Power, and Color in the Life of a Creole Midwife (2018)
  35. Gendered Landscapes of Fishing Rooms in Northern Newfoundland (2014)
  36. A Gendered use of Space: Description and Spatial Analysis of Material Culture Recovered from the Chief Richardville House (12AL1887). (2013)
  37. Gendering Domestic Architecture  (2013)
  38. Gendering herding: an ethnoarchaeology of transhumant settlements in the west of Ireland (2017)
  39. Gendering the Post-Conflict City: Memory, Memorialisation and Commemoration in Belfast (2016)
  40. A Gene Cluster Walks into a Jar: Forensic Analysis 16th -Century Spanish Olive Jars (2020)
  41. Genealogical Approaches to Acadian Diaspora Ethnoarchaeology (2018)
  42. Generations of farming in Jim Crow's East Texas (2017)
  43. Gentleman Soldiers and Richard Mutton, Two New Exhibits in Jamestown's Archaearium Museum (2023)
  44. Genuinely Collaborative Archaeological Work Is ‘Slow’, Or It Is Nothing: Lessons From The ‘Migrant Materialities’ Project (2020)
  45. Geo-locating Community Memory and Archaeological Heritage Via an Adaptive App (2018)
  46. Geoarchaeological and Historical Research on theRedistribution of Beeswax Galleon Wreck Debris by the Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami (!A.D. 1700), Oregon, USA (2013)
  47. Geoarchaeological investigations at Los Buchillones, a Taino site on the north coast of central Cuba (2014)
  48. Geoarchaeology Underwater: Florida State’s Approach to Preparing Students to do Offshore CRM (2022)
  49. A geochemical approach to Inuit-European contact (2014)
  50. Geochemical Identification of the Extramural Activity of Laundry Washing at Cantonment Burgwin (LA 88145), Taos, New Mexico (2014)
  51. Geographic and Landscape Perspectives on Historical Burial Grounds in Montgomery County, MD. (2021)
  52. Geographic Connections- Tracing the History of the Free People of Color in Historic Paramus, New Jersey (2023)
  53. Geographically and Socially on the Periphery: People of Color and their Role in Social Life in Nantucket, Massachusetts (2015)
  54. A Geological Approach to a Historic Midden Site in Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
  55. Geomagnetic Storms are a Problem in the Gulf of Mexico, Too… (2017)
  56. Geomorphology and Site Formation Processes of Three 19th Century Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (2015)
  57. Geophysical Investigaitons at Fort Larned National Historic Site, 14PA305, Pawnee County, Kansas (2017)
  58. Geophysical Investigation at Fort Motte: Delineating the Fort and Searching for the Sap. (2016)
  59. Geophysical Investigations at the Hanna's Town Cemetery, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (2016)
  60. Geophysical mapping of submerged shorelines and anchorage sites at a Mycenaean (Late Bronze) harbour site, Korphos, Greece (2014)
  61. Geophysical Methods at the Hollister Site: Summary of Finds (2018)
  62. Geophysical Survey and Phase II Archaeological Evaluations of Site 46KA681, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia (2018)
  63. Geophysical survey of the old church yard (c. 1640-1890s) in Tyrnävä, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland (2018)
  64. Geophysics and Historical Archaeology: A Collaboration Between Two Departments (2016)
  65. George Dixon: Personal artifacts of H.L. Hunley’s enigmatic captain. (2020)
  66. George Toasts George? (It’s Complicated): 'G.R.' Mugs and the Changing Identity of the Washington Family from Loyal Brits to Revolutionaries (2018)
  67. Geospatial Analysis of the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck Maritime Landscape (2018)
  68. A Geospatial and Statistical Analysis of North Carolina’s First World War Naval Battlescape (2018)
  69. Geospatial Modeling of Regional Site Data (2021)
  70. German Gravemarkers and Cultural Retention (2020)
  71. German POWs in Colorado: The Archaeology of Confinement at Camp Trinidad (2015)
  72. Germanna Lives: Site Lives (2020)
  73. Germs Never Sleep! The Polluted Nature of Womanhood as Expressed Through Vaginal Douching (2013)
  74. Gershom Prince's Powderhorn, Battle of Wyoming, 1778 (2022)
  75. Get out and walk: A reflection on a walking survey conducted in the Fleet River Valley, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland. (2013)
  76. Getting Burned: Fire, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in the American West (2015)
  77. Getting Burned: Fire, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in the American West (2015)
  78. Getting By on East Fork of Indian Creek: Archaeology of Early Twentieth City Life in Eastern Kentucky (2017)
  79. Getting Them Home: Crossing the Borders, From Field to Lab (2017)
  80. Getting to Know Your Neighbours: Critically Thinking Through an 19th Cenutry Irish Family in Ontario (2018)
  81. Getting to the Bottom of the Barrel: A Fresh Look at Some Old Features from Albany’s Big Digs (2020)
  82. Getting Your ‘Kicks’?: An Investigation of Historic Route 66 in Petrified Forest National Park (2018)
  83. Ghana Maritime Archaeology Project: 2013 Field Season in Review (2014)
  84. Ghost Road: Tracing El Camino Viejo Through Southern California (2020)
  85. Ghostly Narratives: Haunted Tourism at Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia (2016)
  86. Ghosts in the Archives: Using Archaeology to Return Life to Historical Prostitutes (2016)
  87. Ghosts in the Walls: Materiality, Temporality, and Identity at a Distributed Site (2020)
  88. Giant Sloths, Ancient Maya Jars, and the Cave of the Black Mirror: Underwater Cenote Research at the Cara Blanca Pools, Belize (2018)
  89. Gifting Vessels Maintain The Friendship – Thoughts About Pictorial Messages On Rhenish Bartmann Jugs (2023)
  90. Gifts for the Indians: French and Spanish Trade Goods on the Texas Coast in the 1680s (2014)
  91. The Gila River Japanese American Incarceration Camp: Thinking With The Past (2017)
  92. The Gilchrist Fleet Survey Report: Identifying the Archaeological Significance of Abandoned Vessels in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. (2016)
  93. Gimballed Beds and Gamming Chairs: Seafaring Wives aboard Nineteenth-Century Sailing Ships (2015)
  94. GIS and the CSS Georgia Recovery Project (2016)
  95. GIS-Based Predictive Modeling and Urban Industrial Archaeology: A Case Study In London, Ontario (2016)
  96. Giving Archaeology It’s Space - Digital Public Interpretation at the Josiah Henson Site (2018)
  97. Giving Voice to Legacy: A Successful Case Study of Descendant and Professional Collaboration in Warren County, NC (2022)
  98. Giving Voice to the Forgotten Victims of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot: The Bessie Black Story (2022)
  99. A Gizmo, A Swamp, Some Artifacts: Portable X-Ray Fluorescence as a Tool for Understanding a Landscape (2014)
  100. Glass and Lapidary Beads at Jamestown, Virginia: An Updated Assessment After 25 Years of Excavation (2020)