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. The Historic Aircraft Archaeology Survey Project [HAASP]: Developing and Implementing Aerospace Archaeology Standardized Investigative Processes and Historic Preservation Best Practices (2020)
  2. Historic and Modern Amerindian Ceramic production in French Guiana : The Case of Eva 2 (2014)
  3. Historic Archaeology at Work: Rehabilitating Our Past and Present to Secure Our Future (2016)
  4. Historic Archaeology of Lincoln, Nebraska: Defining Urban Trade and Industry at the Turn of the 20th Century (2022)
  5. Historic Cemeteries of Wayne County, Ohio: Sources of Local Identity (2016)
  6. Historic Cemetery Preservation in the Digital World (2020)
  7. Historic Cherokee Settlements in the Arkansas River Valley (2013)
  8. Historic Dumps and Scatters: Trash or Sites? (2016)
  9. Historic Ethnography and the Early Colonial Delaware Valley (2017)
  10. Historic Mineral Industries of Georgia: Contexts and Prospects for Archaeology (2014)
  11. Historic Occupation Revealed: Exploring an Understudied Link in Gila River Farm’s Archaeological Record (2020)
  12. Historic Sites and Possible Worlds: Narrative-Building at Two Sites of African American History (2016)
  13. An historical (landscape) archaeology of the Alps: their rediscovery, their transformation during the period of Romantic nationalism, and their instrumentalization during Nazism (2014)
  14. Historical Aircraft Accidents Through the Lens of the New York Times Newspaper Archive (2023)
  15. Historical and Archaeological Investigations into late 19th and early 20th century bee keeping at San Diego County’s Nathan Harrison site and beyond (2022)
  16. Historical archaeological discoveries of the Lordship Petite-Nation (2014)
  17. An Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Indianola Prisoner of War Camp (2013)
  18. Historical archaeology and archaeological practice in Denmark (2013)
  19. Historical Archaeology and Archaeological Practice in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities (2013)
  20. Historical Archaeology And The Battle Of Cedar Creek (2016)
  21. Historical Archaeology as Ghost Hunting (2016)
  22. Historical archaeology as venue for the integration stable isotope and zooarchaeological analyses: A case study for Australian animal husbandry and meat trade (2014)
  23. Historical Archaeology at Emma and Joseph Smith, Jr’s Farm in Harmony, Pennsylvania (2014)
  24. Historical archaeology from a Latin American perspective (2014)
  25. Historical Archaeology in Detroit: Sixty Years and Counting (2021)
  26. Historical archaeology in eastern Baltic: some trends and problems (2013)
  27. Historical Archaeology In India: Issues And Changing Perspectives (2021)
  28. Historical Archaeology in the College Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Tool that Promotes Personal and Professional Development (2016)
  29. Historical Archaeology in Transportation Projects in Arizona (2015)
  30. Historical Archaeology of American Merchant Families in Ottoman Izmir (2018)
  31. An Historical Archaeology of Minstrelsy (2020)
  32. A Historical Archaeology of the Anthropocene (2014)
  33. Historical Archaeology of the Marsh Sugar Plantation, Avery Island, Louisiana (2016)
  34. An Historical Archaeology of ‘Ottomanism’: Reconsidering Nationalism in the Landscape of the Dispossessed (2014)
  35. Historical Archaeology: A Half Century Critique (2019)
  36. Historical Context and Documentation for La Salle’s Le Griffon (2014)
  37. Historical Ecology for Risk Management (2014)
  38. Historical Ecology for Risk Management (2014)
  39. Historical Glass and Tracer X-Ray Fluorescence: Compositional Analysis of Black Glass in Antigua, West Indies (2014)
  40. Historical Gold Mining and Environmental Impact in the Ocoña Valley of Southern Peru (2021)
  41. Historical Indigenous Landscapes in a Canadian Prairie City: The Case of the Métis (2023)
  42. Historical Infrastructure: Recording and Evaluating the Signficance of Linear Sites (2016)
  43. Historical Landscape Archaeology in Czech Republic within Central European Context: Approaches, Theories and Methods (2014)
  44. Historical Photography and its Impacts on the Life and Legend of Nate Harrison (2018)
  45. Historical Production and Materiality: The Mystery of the Zheng He’s Chinese Descendants on the Kenyan Coast. (2023)
  46. Historical Remembering and Forgetting: Black Men's Service (2020)
  47. Historical Research In Support of Maritime Archaeological Projects: A Case Study of the Sinking of the Ashkhabad by the U-402 (2014)
  48. Historical Sites as Cultural Resources in Lagos State: A typological analysis (2014)
  49. An Historical Survey of Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in California as Told by a 53-Year Old Collection (2022)
  50. Histories of Life: Biopolitical Sovereignty in Precolonial Madagascar (2021)
  51. The historiography of the archaeology of slavery in the French West Indies (2013)
  52. The History and Archaeological Investigations of Nineteenth Century Gunboat USS Castine (2016)
  53. History and Archaeology of Event and Process on Plantations in Grand Bay, Commonwealth of Dominica (2013)
  54. The History and Archaeology of Quack Medicine in Texas (2022)
  55. The History and Archaeology of the American Drive-In Theater (2015)
  56. The History and Archaeology of the Historic Creek Indians of the Ocmulgee River Valley, Georgia, USA (2013)
  57. History and Research Potential of the Hale Smith Collection from Castillo San Felipe del Morro, San Juan National Historic Site, National Park Service (2016)
  58. History Be Dammed: The Bridges of Bull Shoals Reservoir. Creative Mitigation Project by Louis Berger U.S., Inc. for the Missouri Department Of Transportation (MoDOT) Historic Preservation Division (2019)
  59. History English Railroad Rails Found at the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building Relocation Project in Salt Lake City, Utah (2013)
  60. A History of Archaeological Thought of Submerged Paleolandscapes, 1006-2023 (2023)
  61. The history of La Charité-sur-Loire bridges (France, Burgundy and Centre Regions), from the 18th to the 20th century (2014)
  62. History of Port Royal and the Digital Catalogue of Artifacts (2023)
  63. The History of the Slave Trade in the City of Lisbon: Spaces of Visibility and Invisibility (2023)
  64. History of the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) in Mozambique (2023)
  65. History of the Timber Industry in Sweden and Women Supplying the Swedish Navy (2018)
  66. A History We Can All See: Using Archaeology In The Secondary Classroom (2023)
  67. History, Archaeology, and the Legacy of Colonization and Slavery in a Freedom Village in Senegal: Sangane (Western Bawol). (2023)
  68. History, Capitalism and Identity: Archaeologies of the Future (2014)
  69. HM Sloop Boscawen: The Seven Years' War on Lake Champlain (2018)
  70. HMS Erebus Artifacts: In-Context finds and Future Potential (2016)
  71. HMS Erebus Material Culture: Reaching Out to Individuals in Shipwreck Historical Archaeology (2020)
  72. Ho-Hum Hoofwear or Meaningfully Magical? How to Identify and Interpret Apotropaic Horseshoes (2021)
  73. A "Hog in the Wall" and Other New Discoveries about the Construction of Drayton Hall, c. 1738 (2013)
  74. "Hold Avstand": The Archaeology of and in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tromsø, Norway (2021)
  75. Hold Fast to Your Timbers: The Documentation and Analysis of the Wood and Iron Fastenings From the Late 18th Century Alexandria Ship. (2017)
  76. Hold Your Horses: Systematic metal detection survey as a methodology to reveal horseshoe and animal shoe typologies across 18th and 19th Century cultural landscapes in Georgia including battlefield sites of the American Revolution (2014)
  77. Holiday at the Seaside. Archaeological Perspectives on a 20th-Century Summer Community on the St. Lawrence Estuary (Bic, Quebec) (2021)
  78. The Holland 5 Submarine Project (2013)
  79. "The Hollanders Have Built A Fortress With Four Bastions:" A Synopsis Of The Archaeological Investigations At The Site Of Fort Casimir/Nieuwer Amstel, City of New Castle, Delaware. (2022)
  80. Holly Bend Plantation: Early19th Century Blacksmith Forge and Dependencies (2017)
  81. Holy Ground: The 1608 Church and Chancel Excavations at James Fort (2017)
  82. Home Front Households: Patriotism in the Domestic Sphere During WWII (2019)
  83. Home Ground Advantage: Small Battles and Large Consequences in the Third Seminole War (2020)
  84. A "Home in the Country:" Material Life at the House of the Good Shepherd Orphanage, Tomkins Cove, New York (2016)
  85. Home Space: Mobility and Movement in the Creation of a Working-class Urban Landscape (2020)
  86. Homesick: the Irish in asylums in the North of England (2013)
  87. Homestake Aqueduct: Bringing Water to Mines and Mills in the Black Hills (2020)
  88. Homestead-Era (ca. 1887-1942) Subsistence on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico (2018)
  89. Homesteading on Salado Creek: A Case Study of Mexican-Anglo Settlement in San Antonio (2022)
  90. Homosocial Bonding in the Brothel: Analyzing Space and Material Culture through Documents (2016)
  91. "Honor To The Soldier And Sailor Everywhere, Who Bravely Bears His Country’s Cause:" Battlefield Preservation and Conflict Archaeology In The United States Federal Government, 1775-2018 (2021)
  92. Honoring America’s World War II Battlefield in a Virtual World (2021)
  93. "A Horrible Quantity of Stuff": The Untapped Potential of Northeast Region NPS Collections (2016)
  94. Horse Culture and English Customs: The Importance of the Saddle Horse in 18th-Century English Colonies (2013)
  95. Horse Warriors and Warrior Horses (2022)
  96. Hot Iron, Cold Winters: Unearthing Stories of the Fayette Historic Town Site (2021)
  97. Hot Sauce and Colonial Degeneracy (2018)
  98. House and Household: The Archaeology of Domestic Life at Burning Man (2013)
  99. The House of the Good Shepherd: A Late Nineteenth Century Orphanage on the Banks of the Hudson River (2016)
  100. A house transformed, culture and architecture in early modern Offaly (2013)