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. Glass Beads and Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: A Social Network Approach to Exploring Identity in the Colonial Southeast (2020)
  2. Glass Beads at San Luis de Talimali: The Social Context and Spatial Distribution of Color (2020)
  3. Glass Beads from the Gagliana Grossa : a Reference Collection for the Venitian Production at the End of the 16th Century (2023)
  4. The Glass of New Spain: Exploring Early Modern Networks through Material Culture (2018)
  5. Glass Trade Beads and Amazonia’s African Diaspora (2021)
  6. Glass, Floods, and "Gov'ment Work": Exploring Industrial Heritage in Blairsville, Southwestern Pennsylvania (2016)
  7. Glassware analysis from a segregated, multi-racial community of labor - A case study from the Coal Heritage Archaeology Project. (2017)
  8. The Glassworks of Gunner’s Run: Excavation of Dyottville and Henry Benner’s Glass Factory, Kensington, Philadelphia (2016)
  9. The Glen Eyrie Estate Time Capsule: The Curation of Artifacts from Excavations along Camp Creek. (2020)
  10. Global Capitalism Is Modern Colonialism  (2013)
  11. Global Capitalist Symbolic Violence at Small Scale on Providence Island (2016)
  12. A Global Consumption: Chinese Porcelain In Lisbon In The First Half Of The 16th Century (2023)
  13. Global Currents and Local Currents in Northern La Florida: Recent Finds at the Berry Site in Western North Carolina (2018)
  14. The Global Effort to Train Diving Archaeologists: the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology (2017)
  15. The Global Entanglements of a Central Texas Mission: Archaeology at Mission Espada (2023)
  16. A Global Exchange: NPS Collaborations with the Slave Wrecks Project in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Mozambique (2018)
  17. Global Ghosts: Labor, Consumption, and Globalization at Carbon City, Wyoming (2023)
  18. The Global Legacy of Sugar Planting in Australia: Historical Archaeological Excavations of a South Sea Islander Dwelling in Ayr, Queensland (2023)
  19. Global Network, Native Node: The Social Geography of a New York Whaling Port (2014)
  20. Global Networks of Trade, Migration and Consumption: Evidence from the Gold Rush-Era Fauna at Thompson’s Cove (CA-SFR-186H), San Francisco, California (2015)
  21. Global Offshore Wind: Consideration of Cumulative Effects for Archaeological Resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (2023)
  22. The Global, the Local, and the Personal: Searching for Meaning and Relevancy Through Baltimore’s Past (2019)
  23. The Globalized World of a French Canadian in Spanish and Indian Territory:  The Life of Louis Blanchette, Founder of St. Charles, Missouri.  (2013)
  24. Globalizing Lifeways: An Analysis of Local and Imported Ceramics at an Aku Site in Banjul, The Gambia. (2016)
  25. Globalizing Poverty:  The Materiality of International Inequality and Marginalization (2013)
  26. Glowing Glass: Using Ultra-Violet Radiation on Glass to Identify the International Trade Networks of a 17th to 19th North American Fishing Site (2013)
  27. The Gnali’ Shipwreck (2014)
  28. Go West Young Man...Woman and Child?: Investigating Shasta County's population during the Californian Gold Rush (2013)
  29. Go-Betweens, Transculturation, and the Notion of the Frontier in the Potomac River Valley (2017)
  30. Godawaya - the earliest shipwreck found in the Asia-Pacific region (2013)
  31. Going Ballistic: A Firearms Analysis of Florida’s Natural Bridge (2018)
  32. Going Downhill: the Evolution of a Sheffield Neighbourhood from the 17th to the 20th Century (2013)
  33. Going Full Circle: ECU’s 2018 Archaeological Investigations into the Battle of Saipan (2020)
  34. Going Green: Using Environmental Protections to Safeguard the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2013)
  35. Going Over Old Ground: developing effective geophysical survey methodologies for Maryland’s archaeological sites (2016)
  36. Going paperless in Calabria: an open-source digital data collection workflow. (2018)
  37. Going Paperless: The Digital Age of Archaeology (2018)
  38. Going to the Dogs: Forensic Canine Surveys at Mission San Antonio de Padua, California (2015)
  39. Going to Virginia: Chicacoans and the Early Northern Neck (2023)
  40. Going Up the Country: A Comparison of Elite Ceramic Consumption Patterns in Charleston and the Carolina Frontier (2014)
  41. Gold and Glass: African Expressions of Creation aboard the Slave Ship La Concorde (2020)
  42. A Gold And Rock Crystal Jar From The Viking-Age 'Galloway' Hoard (2023)
  43. Golden Glass Beads in New Spain and Local Productions (2023)
  44. "Gone But Not Forgotten": Two Hundred Years of Epitaph Memorialization in Northwestern Pennsylvania (2015)
  45. Gone for a Soldier: An Archaeological Signature of a Military Presence aboard the Storm Wreck (2016)
  46. Good Digital Curation: Sharing and Preserving Archaeological Data as Part of Your Regular Workflow (2016)
  47. Good Practice in Digital Commemoration of the Holocaust: An Analysis of COVID-Era Digital Programming at the Time of the 75th Anniversary of Liberation in Europe (2023)
  48. The Goodwin Sands: Patterns of Burial and Updating the Wreck Record (2017)
  49. The Gorman House Project: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Historical Archaeology (2014)
  50. Got meat?: Old World Animal Domesticates in Early Historic New Mexican Contexts (2014)
  51. Got Microbes? A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Microbial Response to the Deepwater Horizon Spill and Its Impact on Gulf of Mexico Shipwrecks (2014)
  52. Governing in the Early Modern Sapmi (2016)
  53. Government Maritime Managers Forum XXVI: "The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea" (2018)
  54. Government Maritime Mangers Forum: Adjust The Sails! (2021)
  55. Governmental Opportunities for Preserving Heritage Resources (2018)
  56. Governmentality and the Subtle Quality of Colonial Violence in an Evolving New England Frontier (2017)
  57. GPR, Metal Detection and Archaeological Investigation at the Denton Homesite, Greenfield, NY (2022)
  58. Grabbing the Brass Ring: Assessing the Evidence of the Lost Colony (2019)
  59. Graffiti revelations and the changing meanings of Kilmainham Gaol, Ireland (2014)
  60. Grand Principessa Di Toscana – Story And Archaeology Of A 17th Century Shipwreck In Cabo Raso (Cascais) (2023)
  61. The Grande Ballroom, Detroit: Four Decades of Music History in Ruins (2018)
  62. Granny’s Panties and Great-Grandpa’s Jock Strap: Reconstructing 200 Years of Middle-Class Clothing (2016)
  63. Grave Anatomy: Dissecting Bodies of Meaning in Historical North American Burials (2023)
  64. The Grave Diggers’ Lament: Early 20 th Century Solutions to a Loose Sediment Predicament (2017)
  65. Grave markers as Artifact and Document: Using a Family Cemetery to Teach Archaeology (2014)
  66. Great Balls of Fire: Phantoms of Ontario’s Past (2016)
  67. Great Dismal Swamp Land Study (2013)
  68. The Great House and the Old Plate (2018)
  69. The Greek House that America Built: Remittance Archaeology in the Global South (2020)
  70. Green Fields of Americay: The Irish Diaspora in Rural Massachusetts (2023)
  71. Gribshunden (1495), a Royal Medieval Danish Flagship in the Baltic Sea (2023)
  72. A Grim Tale: Nutrition and Childhood Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (2022)
  73. Ground Truthing the Future: Using Contact Era Archaeological Information to Test and Communicate Sea Level Change (2015)
  74. Ground-Penetrating Radar and Rapid Site Identification and Characterization: Examples from the Theodore Turley Home Site, Nauvoo, Illinois (2016)
  75. Ground-Penetrating Radar Prospection for 17th Century Archaeological Sites (2020)
  76. Ground-truthing a Historic Database: Chequamegon Bay Archaeological Survey 2016 (2017)
  77. Ground-Truthing False Earthworks at Fort Eustis, Virginia (2021)
  78. Ground-Truthing GRP Results at A New Hampshire Burial Ground: Narrowing the Divide Between "Anomaly" and Graveshaft. (2020)
  79. A group of late 16th century Chinese porcelains with datable English mounts (2014)
  80. The Growing Pains and Resulting Benefits in our Transition to Mobile Data Collection (2018)
  81. Growing Resilience: Allotments For The Unemployed In 1930s Britain (2018)
  82. Growing the Scorched Ground Green: Confronting the Past and Looking Towards the Future of California’s Ecology (2018)
  83. Growing up at Coalwood: An Analysis of Children's Material Culture at Coalwood Lumber Camp (2017)
  84. Guarding the Past: 20th Century Archaeology on Military Lands (2019)
  85. Guerrero and Beyond: New Collaborations in the Study of the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Upper Florida Keys (2018)
  86. Guerrilla Foursquare: The appropriation of commercial location-based social networking for archaeological engagement and education (2013)
  87. Guidelines for Creating a Typology for Mass-Produced 19th and 20th Century Burial Container Hardware (2016)
  88. Gulag camps and uranium mines in Kodar mountains (Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation) - field documentation and low altitude aerial photographs in extremely remote locations (2017)
  89. Gulag Online virtual museum (2017)
  90. Gulf of Mexico SCHEMA: Studying the Effects of a Major Oil Spill on Submerged Cultural Resources. Where Do We Go From Here? (2015)
  91. Gulf of Mexico Shipwrecks, Corrosion, Hydrocarbon Exposure, Microbiology, and Archaeology (GOM-SCHEMA): Studying the Effects of a Major Oil Spill on Submerged Cultural Resources (2015)
  92. Gulfoil: Ghost in the Gulf  (2013)
  93. The Gullah Community at Harris Neck, Georgia: Contested Landscape, Contested History (2017)
  94. Gullah Geechee Fishermen in the New South: An Archaeological Perspective (2023)
  95. Gullah Place-making & Racial Landscapes on Hilton Head Island, SC. (2022)
  96. Gullah-Geechee Landscapes on Ossabaw Island, Georgia (2013)
  97. Gun Carriage Components from the Queen Anne’s Revenge: A Preliminary Review (2018)
  98. Gun Ignition Systems: Evolution and Adoption by "the Military" 1570-1870 (2023)
  99. The Gunflints of St. Charles: A General Analysis of Their Characteristics (2018)
  100. "Guns and ships, and so the balance shifts":A Material Culture Analysis of Betsy and the British Naval Strategy of Scuttling during the Battle of Yorktown, 1781 (2022)