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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  • Documents (6,639)
  1. A House, a Pistol, China, and a Clock: The Articulation of White Masculinity and the Cult of Sensibility in 18th-Century Montserrat, West Indies (2013)
  2. The House-Yard Revisited: Domestic Landscapes of Enslaved People in Plantation Jamaica (2016)
  3. Household Archaeology and Slavery in Tidewater Virginia (2020)
  4. Household Artifacts from the Storm Wreck (2016)
  5. Household Ceramics across communities of Labor, a study from central Appalachia (2017)
  6. Household Narratives From a Colonial Frontier: The Archaeology of The Maria Place Cottages, Whanganui, New Zealand (2017)
  7. Household Palimpsests: Combining Geophysical, Historical, and Oral Records of the Baranabas Pond Farmstead (2023)
  8. Household Spaces: 18th- and 19th-Century Spatial Practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation (2014)
  9. "Household Stuffe sufficient to furnish plentifully 2 large houses": The Material World of Jesuit Plantations in Colonial Maryland (2020)
  10. Households of the Overseas Chinese in Aurora, Nevada (2013)
  11. Houses and Households at Monticello’s Site 8 (2013)
  12. Housing for the metal trades in the industrial colony of Parkwood Springs, 1860-1970 (2017)
  13. How 2020 Changed the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project (2021)
  14. How about a cuppa? Archaeology outreach through the Tea & Trowels video series (2021)
  15. How Can Archaeological Spatial Structure Advance Our Understanding of the Social Dynamics of Slavery?: an Example from Monticello. (2019)
  16. How Colonization Created Food Inequality in the United States (and Why It Matters) (2020)
  17. How Did Charcoal Lands Promote Freedom? (2023)
  18. How did they land here? Survey of a 1942 Catalina OA-10 US military aircraft lost in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Québec, Canada (2014)
  19. How Did We Get Here?: An Examination of the Development of Florida’s Rule 1A-31 (2018)
  20. How Does Local Government Collaborate with Many Publics? (2016)
  21. How Far We Have Come: Advances in Bioarchaeology at Historic St. Mary’s City (2020)
  22. How Geomorphology Can Benefit Archaeology (2017)
  23. How Many Lead Balls Does It Take to Make a Battlefield? And Other Questions that Keep Conflict Archaeologists Up at Night (2016)
  24. How Revolutionary is Chinese Diaspora Archaeology? (2020)
  25. How the Chinese Built Yosemite (And Nobody Knows About It) (2016)
  26. How the Evolution of Side Scan Sonar and Marine Technology Influenced the Development of Maritime Archaeology (2022)
  27. How the North lost their memory of slavery and how archaeology can shed light on forgotten histories (2014)
  28. How These Pots Can Talk: Relevancy and Purpose of Archaeology in the Slave Wrecks Project. (2018)
  29. How to Reduce the Boxes in your Laboratory and Produce Good Research: Archaeobotanical Analyses and Rehabilitated Collections (2015)
  30. How Wild Was Nathan Harrison’s Old West: Unsolved Murders and Mayhem in late 19th and early 20th Century San Diego County (2020)
  31. Howell Mark I Torpedo No. 24: Discovery, History, Research and Conservation (2015)
  32. The Hoyo Negro Project: Recent Investigations of a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2014)
  33. Hoyo Negro: The Formation and Transformation of a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2018)
  34. Huguenot Heritage: Revisiting Curated Collections in NYC (2016)
  35. Hull Analysis of the Spring Break Wreck, a Nineteenth-Century Shipwreck Washed Ashore in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (2019)
  36. The Hull Recording in the 2014 Field Season at Gnalic. (2015)
  37. The Humachis of Huancavelica during the Late Colonial Period (AD 1780-1840) (2016)
  38. Human or Machine? An Analysis Of Saw Marks On Animal Bones From Two Sites In St. Charles, MO (2017)
  39. The Human-Altered Lithic Detection (HALD) Method: The Latest Innovation in Submerged Precontact Archaeology (2022)
  40. The Human-Altered Lithic Detection System (HALD) in Real-World Situations, Acoustically Mapping of Submerged Pre-contact Sites in the Gulf of Mexico (2023)
  41. Human-animal interactions at a seventeenth-century English fishery in Newfoundland (2013)
  42. Human-Environment Interaction in Colonial Queensland: Establishment, Use and Abandonment of the Port of St Lawrence and Implications for the Archaeological Record (2015)
  43. The Human-Environment relationship at Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg-08), Dog Island (Labrador): A dendrochronological approach (2014)
  44. Humanitarian Sites: A Contemporary Archaeological and Ethnographic Study of Clandestine Culture Contact among Undocumented Migrants, Humanitarian Aid Groups, and the U.S. Border Patrol (2015)
  45. A Hundred Bottles of Beer in the Ground: Excavating Detroit’s Historic Local Beer Industry from Artifacts of Working-Class Households in Roosevelt Park, Corktown Neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan. (2018)
  46. The Hunley Revealed: 3D Documentation, Deconcretion, and Recent Developments in the Investigation of the H.L. Hunley Submarine. (2016)
  47. The Hunt for the Forts of New Sweden (2013)
  48. The Hunting and Foraging Strategies of an Enslaved Population at the Belvoir Plantation (2020)
  49. Hurricane Harvey: One Story of the Houston Historical Archeology Network Perservering (2019)
  50. Hurricane Impact Modeling for Shipwreck Site Formation in the North Florida Keys and its Application to Resource Management (2020)
  51. Hurricane Sandy and the New Jersey Waterway Debris Removal Project: Archaeological Methodology During Sediment and Debris Removal Operations. (2015)
  52. Hurricanes and Spaniards: The Luna Settlement (2023)
  53. The Hutchinson House: Restoring a Freedman’s House to Serve as a Heritage Center on Edisto Island, SC (2022)
  54. "Huts Placed in a More Exact Order than Philadelphia" Reassessing the Camps of the Connecticut Line and Hand’s Brigade at Morristown National Historical Park, Applying a Conjunctive Approach to Investigating Revolutionary War Encampments (2022)
  55. Hybrid Objects, Mixed Assemblages, and the Centrality of Context: Colonoware and Creolization in Early New Orleans (2017)
  56. Hybridity and Community Formation in the Middle Savannah River Valley     (2013)
  57. Hybridized Ceramic Practice and Creolized Communities: the Apalachee After the Missions (2018)
  58. Hygiene, Masculinity, and Imprisonment: The Archaeology of Japanese Internees at Idaho's Kooskia Internment Camp (2015)
  59. I Can Handle It (2015)
  60. "I Don't Know Where I'm a-Gonna Go When the Volcano Blow": Resettlement, Diaspora, and the Landscapes of Montserrat’s Volcanic Exclusion Zone (2018)
  61. "I Feel Like Taking Their Heads Off": Children in Fort Boise (2018)
  62. I Forge On: Walkability and Experiencing Early 20th Century Urban Life Through Spokane's Expert Smithy (2018)
  63. "I Likewise Give To Indiana & Elizabeth The Following Slaves...": The Founding of Sweet Briar College and its Racially Charged History (2016)
  64. "I Swore I’d Never Step Foot in that House": Public Archaeology and the University as a Site of Former Enslavement (2019)
  65. I Tell My Heart to Go Ahead: The 369th Infantry Regiment as a Model for Black First World War Archaeology (2020)
  66. ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’ ‘ The Historical Archaeology of Nationalism and National Identity in Trans-Atlantic Context (2014)
  67. "I Wanna Go Home, They Need Me:" Archaeological Investigation of German POW Camp D-D, Fort Campbell, KY (2022)
  68. "I WAS born June 15, 1789, in Charles County, Maryland…" Archaeological Investigations at the Josiah Henson Birthplace Site (2018)
  69. I'm just testing your system to be ready for 2014! (2013)
  70. The I-95/Girard Avenue Improvement Project in Philadelphia: An Overview (2016)
  71. An Iberian ship for the Atlantic: a reassessment of Angra D, a probable 17th century Spanish shipwreck (Azores, Portugal) (2013)
  72. An Iberian Smuggler and His Ill-Fated Ship: 2013-2014 Field Surveys for the Navio of Pedro Díaz Carlos (2015)
  73. Iced Isolation: Opportunity and Desolation in America's Northern Frontier (2015)
  74. Iceland and the Colonial Project (2013)
  75. Iceland During the 16th Century - Proto-Globalization at the Fringe of Europe (2020)
  76. Icelanders, Germans and Danes – Triangulating colonial encounters in Iceland during the 15th to 17th centuries (2017)
  77. Icelandic Agricultural Heritage and Environmental Adaptation: Osteometrical and Genetic Markers of Livestock Improvement (2016)
  78. The Icelandic Cooperative Movement: Constitutive Practices and Localized Influences (2023)
  79. Icelandic Livestock Improvement on a Millennial Scale: Biometrical Analyses of Caprine Morphology (2015)
  80. Icelandic migration and nationality in the late 19th century (2014)
  81. The Icky Sticky: Foodways, Identity, and Isotopic Residue Analysis at La Soye, Dominica (2023)
  82. Iconography of colonialism as production and reproduction in early modern Sweden (2013)
  83. Idaho Gold: An Analysis of the Ophir Creek Brewery, a nineteenth century Chinese Community (2017)
  84. Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille Story (2017)
  85. The Idea of the Enlightenment and Environmental Relations in Early Modern Ostrobothnian Towns of Sweden: Macro- and Microfossil Studies of Local Plant Use (2016)
  86. Identification of Coarse Earthenware Potters on Production and Consumption Sites in Charlestown, Massachusetts Using Biometric Identification (2016)
  87. The Identification Of Historical Glasses By Silicon Isotope Ratios (2015)
  88. Identification of Metal Cultural Remains from the Luna Settlement Site (2020)
  89. Identification of the "Cape Hatteras Mystery Wreck" (2016)
  90. Identification of Vasco da Gama's Lost Ships Esmeralda and São Pedro (2018)
  91. Identifying "Missing" Slave Cabins On Low Country Georgia Plantations (2016)
  92. Identifying 17th Century Indigenous Community Formation within the Potomac River Valley (2022)
  93. Identifying a Luso-African Slaver in Cape Town: An Overview of the Archaeological and Archival Evidence for the São Josè Paquete d’Afrique (2016)
  94. Identifying Aircraft Artifacts Ex Situ: The Life History of an F4U Corsair (2019)
  95. Identifying an Aircraft Wreck From 370m Above (2018)
  96. Identifying and Delineating Building Locations on Low-Density Sites Using a Metal Detector (2014)
  97. Identifying and Interpreting Nineteenth Century Agricultural and Natural Resources Sites within the Cultural Landscape of the Waganakising Odawa of Northern Lower Michigan (2018)
  98. Identifying dog remains from protohistoric and post-contact Inuit archaeological sites in Labrador using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone collagen (2014)
  99. Identifying Enslaved Movement on the South End Plantation (1849-1861), Ossabaw Island, Georgia. (2019)
  100. Identifying Foodways In Early Modern Ireland Using A Multi-isotope Approach (2023)