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. Guns on the Plantation: Situating the Use of Firearms by Enslaved Persons at Kingsley Plantation, Florida (2015)
  2. H.L. Hunley The Next Step: Inside The Side (2020)
  3. The H.L. Hunley Weapon System: Using 3D modeling to replicate the first submarine attack (2014)
  4. Habitation sucrerie et sources archéologiques : le Château Dubuc en Martinique (2014)
  5. Haida Perspectives On Authenticity And Ethnicity In Mid-Nineteenth Century Argillite Carving (2018)
  6. Hallowed Ground, Sacred Space: The African-American Cemetery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Plantation Landscapes of the Enslaved. (2015)
  7. The Hamtramck Historic Spatial Archaeology Project (2023)
  8. Hand to Mouth: Colonial Frontier Foodways at Fort Rosalie, Natchez, Mississippi (2014)
  9. Hands across the water: Exploring maritime networks in Pleistocene Wallacea (2023)
  10. Hands of Mercy: Methods of Healing Practice by Frontier Nuns (2019)
  11. Hands On: The Archaeological Process At Work At Strawbery Banke Museum (2020)
  12. Hands-On Experience; Reflections Upon Student-Led Research at Cremona Estate (2014)
  13. A Hands-on Past: 3D Replication as a Form of Archaeological Engagement (2018)
  14. "Hanging in shreds": HMS Investigator’s Copper Hull Sheathing (2013)
  15. Hanna’s Town: The Site, Its History, and Its Archaeology (2016)
  16. Happy Anniversary! We didn't get a card but we found a lot of ship: Revisiting the Anniversary Wreck. (2019)
  17. Happy Trails: The Archaeology of Backcountry Cowpens in Colonial South Carolina (2017)
  18. Harald Bluetooth’s Welfare State: The Archaeology of Danish Royalty and Democracy (2014)
  19. Harbingers of early globalization in a regional context: Shipwrecks of the North Frisian Wadden Sea (2023)
  20. Harbor Archaeology in Sergipe: Initial Results and Considerations (2016)
  21. Hard to Shop For: Surveying for a Birthday Present for the Nation’s Oldest Port (2017)
  22. Hard-Scrabble Living - Cattle, Horse, and Goats; Ranching on the Chihuahua Desert, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (2013)
  23. Hardly "Junk" in the Trunk: Exploring Participant Feedback from Archaeology Education Tool Testing (2015)
  24. Hardscrabble Life: The Change in the Use of Land From Exploratory Mining to Domestic Life on Quincy Mining Company Property. (2020)
  25. The Harlem African Burial Ground Project: Effective Collaboration Between an Archaeological Consulting Firm, a City Agency, and a Community Task Force (2018)
  26. Harnessing the Whirlwind: Cultural Influences on the American Revolution in Upstate New York (2014)
  27. Harriet Tubman Home Archaeology: Expressions of Spirituality, Community and Individuality (2017)
  28. Hatmarim Beach Wrecks: Historical Archaeology in Akko Harbor, Israel (2014)
  29. Haunted Landscapes and Historical Archaeology (2015)
  30. Haunted salt: how the saltpan of Venezuelan La Tortuga Fed the enslaved and powered the Sugar Revolution, 1638-1781 (2023)
  31. Haunting and the Politics of South Asian Archaeology: Stories of three Jinn-haunted ruins (2021)
  32. Haunting, Urban Restructuring, and the Spectropolitics of Consumptive Spaces in San Francisco (2019)
  33. Have Tools Will Travel: An Examination of Tools Found on the Storm Wreck, A Loyalist Evacuation Transport Wrecked on the St. Augustine Bar in 1782 (2016)
  34. Have you had rice today? The costs of consumption in Early Modern South India (2022)
  35. Having Our Cake…..and Sharing It - Access to Historic Shipwrecks in Malta (2019)
  36. Hawaiian Mormons in the Utah Desert: The Negotiation of Identity at Iosepa (2018)
  37. "He Himself Will Share in the Hardship, and Partake of Every Inconvenience": Finding George Washington at Valley Forge (2015)
  38. Head Tells Tales – The Life and Times of Rodney, a Convict Transport Vessel Wrecked at Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea (2018)
  39. Headstone Material and Cultural Expression: An Archaeological Examination of North Carolina Grave Markers (2016)
  40. Headstones without Heads: The Search for a Lost Cholera Cemetery through Oral Histories and Ground Penetrating Radar (2020)
  41. Healing Waters: Recreating and Contextualizing the Turn of the Century Site of Regent Spring in Excelsior Springs, Missouri (2018)
  42. Health and Hygiene in Lower Mid-City: An Example of Urbanization, Consumerism, and Americanization in Lower Mid-City during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2018)
  43. Health and Identity at a 19th Century Urban Site (2014)
  44. Health Conscious: A Look Inside the Privy at 71 Joy Street (2014)
  45. Health In Early Twentieth-Century Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
  46. Healthcare, Life, and Death on St. Croix, USVI from the Late 19th Century to Early 21st Century (2022)
  47. Heart Of The Ship: The Amidships Investigation Of The Emanuel Point II Shipwreck (2015)
  48. Heavy Metal: The Arrival of English Lead Glass in the Chesapeake (2013)
  49. Hedged Bets and Serious Games: Native Responses to Settler Colonialism and Indian Removal in the 19th-Century Middle West (2020)
  50. Heirloom Wisdom: Propagating Garden Archaeology Beyond Williamsburg (2015)
  51. "Hellish in Principle and Brutal in Practice": Preliminary Investigations of 19th Century Prison Labor in North Carolina (2023)
  52. The Henderson and Gaines Family of Ceramic Importers, New Orleans, Louisiana (2013)
  53. Henry Miller: Magister Humanitatis (2020)
  54. Henry Miller: The Archaeologist As Architectural Historian (2020)
  55. Herding Brick Bits: Ephemeral Historic Sites in the Chesapeake (2014)
  56. Here Comes Revenge: the Loss, Rediscovery, and Investigation of Oliver Hazzard Perry’s 14-gun Schooner (2018)
  57. Heritage Across Time and Space: A Transatlantic Conversation between Catoctin Furnace and Ironbridge Gorge (2016)
  58. Heritage and Memory in Ukraine, 2022 (2023)
  59. Heritage as Liberation? (2020)
  60. Heritage at Risk along the Delaware Bay’s Scenic Byways: Narrating Climate Threats, Legacy and Loss with StoryMaps (2022)
  61. Heritage at Risk Research as Part of the Archaeology Internship Program at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (2022)
  62. Heritage Conservation Matters During the Last Decades in Eastern Romania. A Case Study from Iasi County (2014)
  63. Heritage Crime: Focus on the rural (2023)
  64. The Heritage Education Network: From Individual Efforts to Professional Action (2018)
  65. Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS Florida): Engaging the Public to Monitor Heritage at Risk (2017)
  66. Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS) Florida: Using Shoreline Monitoring along Florida’s Coast to Engage the Public (2018)
  67. Heritage Monitoring Underwater: Launching the Submerged Heritage Monitoring Scouts Florida Program (2019)
  68. A Heritage of Health Disparities in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania. (2018)
  69. Heritage Tourism In Florida: A Choice Between The Beach And Cultural Heritage (2018)
  70. Heritagisation of a Former Fisheries-Dependent Community: Examining the Role of Heritage-Led Regeneration at North Shields Fish Quay (2023)
  71. Hermitage Archaeology, The Early Years (2018)
  72. Heroic Networks: Museum Objects and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (2023)
  73. Heroine and the Evolving Traits of Early Western River Steamboats (2014)
  74. Herring Run: A Community Based Archaeology Project in Northeast Baltimore (2016)
  75. The Hester Lake B-24 Crash: A Case Study For Small, Low-Cost ROVs (2017)
  76. The Heterogeneity of Early French Forts and Settlements. A Comparison with Fort St. Pierre (1719-1729) in French Colonial Louisiane (2014)
  77. Heterogeneous Racial Group Model and the African American Past (2014)
  78. Hey Girl, I See You: Identifying Women Within Household Assemblages (2017)
  79. Hidden Along the Waterfront: Overview of Site 44AX0229 (2017)
  80. Hidden Battlefields: Power, Memory, and Preservation of Sites of Armed Conflict (2021)
  81. Hidden Histories of an Island Village: an Ethnoarchaeological Exploration of Westquarter Village, Inishbofin (2013)
  82. Hidden Histories: Using Archaeology to Teach Slavery in the Secondary Classroom (2020)
  83. "Hidden In Plain Sight"- The Survival Of Domestic Architecture In Dublin (1660-1714) - Identification, Characteristics and Repair. (2020)
  84. Hidden in Plain Sight: The composite-hulled stern-wheel steamboats of Western Canada (2014)
  85. Hidden in Plain Sight: A Tornadic Discovery of Enslaved African American Life in Missouri’s Little Dixie (2014)
  86. Hidden in Plain Sight: Monitoring Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Waters of St. Augustine, Florida (2016)
  87. Hidden in Plain Sight: Remapping Spatial Networks and Social Complexity of the Chinese Immigrant Mining Diaspora in Southern Oregon (2016)
  88. Hidden Meaning: A Catholic Reliquary in an Anglican World (2017)
  89. Hidden Things Brought to Light: Richmond Archaeological Collections and the Importance of Curation as Research (2017)
  90. Hiding on Maroon Ridge: The Search for Maroon Settlements on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2023)
  91. High Frequency Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Jamestown Church: Mapping Structural Elements and Human Burial Orientation (2020)
  92. High Perspectives, Vertical Context, Drastic Change: A Case Study involving the Application of UAV/Drone Technologies for Documenting Historic Coastal Archaeological Sites Adversely Affected by the Impacts of Climate Change in Three Opposing Regions of the World. (2017)
  93. High Place at the Water’s Edge: A Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of the Kiskiak Landscape (2018)
  94. High Quality Artifact and Field Photography on a Budget (2017)
  95. High-Precision Chronology Building at Coastal Sites on California’s Channel Islands (2013)
  96. High-Resolution 2D and 3D Imaging of the USS Macon Wreck Site (2016)
  97. Highbourne Cay Shipwreck Excavations – Dendro-archaeology (2018)
  98. Highbourne Cay Shipwreck Revisited: 2015 Field Season and Preliminary Assessment (2016)
  99. The Highbourne Cay Shipwreck: Past, Present and Future (2020)
  100. The Hiking Interview: Engaging Communities in Emplaced Dialogue (2020)