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. Identifying Historic Ceramics: Applications of X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Archaeology (2018)
  2. Identifying Japanese Ceramic Forms and their Use in the American West (2016)
  3. Identifying Landscape Modifications at the South End Plantation (1849-1861), Ossabaw Island, Georgia (2018)
  4. Identifying Nineteenth Century Odawa Farms and Settlements within the Cultural Landscape at Waganakising in Emmet County, Michigan. (2021)
  5. Identifying Status and Identity Through Material Remains: A Preliminary Report from the Hollister Site (2018)
  6. Identifying Submerged Sites in Ohio’s Far Northeast Corner, or, Where’s Ashtabula? (2019)
  7. Identifying the Landscape Impact of Enclosure using GIS-Aided Map Regression (2013)
  8. Identifying the South Yard: Interrogating Landscapes of Home and Work Yards Enslaved African Americans at Montpelier (2018)
  9. Identifying The  Visible: A Look at How Economic Class and Ethnicity Influence Women's Visibility Within a  Household (2015)
  10. Identifying Transient Sites in the Archaeological Record (2018)
  11. Identifying with the Help: an Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Gender in a Post-Colonial German Houselot (2015)
  12. Identifying with the Help: an Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Gender on a Post-Colonial French Houselot (2014)
  13. Identities in Flux at an American Frontier Fort: A Study of 19th Century Army Laundresses at Fort Davis, Texas (2016)
  14. Identity and Isolation: The Material Realities of an (almost) Isolated Household in Sandpoint, Idaho (2015)
  15. Identity Formation and Consumption During At The End Of The Colonial Era in El Salvador (2018)
  16. The Identity Question: What Can Archaeology Contribute to the Study of Acadian Ethnogenesis? (2014)
  17. Identity, Place and Memorialization: A Linguistic Study of Union Monuments at the Gettysburg Battlefield (2021)
  18. Ideologies In Tension And Moments of Change: The Slave Jail At 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia (2021)
  19. Ideology, Colonialism and Domestic Architecture (2020)
  20. If a Picture is Worth a 1,000 words, How Much are GIS Coordinates Worth? The Use of Visual History, Oral History, and GIS Data to Define the McAdoo Plantation Home (2013)
  21. If Cain Had Been a Fisherman...’ - Historical and Archaeological Dimensions of a Whaling and Cod-Fishing Site on the ‘»Other»’ Labrador Coast (2014)
  22. If This Mountain Could Talk: African-American Landscape, Culture and Memory on Sourland Mountain, New Jersey. (2022)
  23. If You Are Not At the Table You Are On The Menu: How To Be An Advocate For Historical Archaeology In Today’s Political Environment (2018)
  24. If You Are Not at the Table You Are on the Menu: How to Be an Advocate for Historical Archaeology in Today’s Political Environment – Second Round (2019)
  25. If You Can’t Take The Heat: Archaeology Of A 1760s-1800 New Jersey Out Kitchen (2020)
  26. If You Didn't Know Better...: The Enigma of Jamestown's "Spanish" Beads (2023)
  27. Iglosuat and sea ice hunting grounds: the contributions of environmental archaeology to the reconstruction of winter cultural landscape of Dog Island, Nunatsiavut (2014)
  28. Illegitimate Children, Single Parents, and Methodism in an African American Enclave in the Dominican Republic (2015)
  29. Illicit Trade and the Rise of a Capitalistic Culture in the 17th-century Potomac River Valley: An Analysis of Imported Clay Tobacco Pipes. (2016)
  30. (Illuminating the Lighthouse: An Historical and Archaeological Examination of the Causes and Consequences of Economic and Social Change at the Currituck Beach Light Station. (2017)
  31. Illustrating The Components That Form Part Of International Training Courses (2013)
  32. (Im)Mobility in the Anthracite Fields: Friction of Distance Among Working Women at the Turn of the 20th Century (2023)
  33. Imagined Forts in Imagined (Colonial) Landscapes (2023)
  34. Imagining and Analyzing Paths: Using Modern GIS Techniques to Identify Historical Trails (2020)
  35. Imagining Conformity: Consumption and Sameness in the Postwar African American Suburbs (2015)
  36. Imagining the Black Landscape: The Materiality of Gentrification and African American Heritage (2019)
  37. Imitation and Ostentation: Paint Analysis of Garden Urns from Custis Square (2021)
  38. Imitation, Counterfeiting And Cultural Appropriation. Chinese Influences on European Ceramics (1560-1780) (2023)
  39. Immersive Technology as Meaningful Interpretation and Public Discourse for Archaeology and History (2018)
  40. The Immigrant Experience in an Urban Archaeological Context: Challenges and Opportunities in the Nation’s Capital (2023)
  41. Immigration and Economics in Newton and Huxley Cemeteries in southwestern Wisconsin (2021)
  42. Immigration and Transformation in Central California: A Case Study from the Samuel Adams Limekiln Complex, Santa Cruz County, California (2018)
  43. Immigration Service Records and the Archaeology of Chinatown, The Dalles, Oregon (2015)
  44. The Impact of Coastal Erosion on a Maine Shipwreck: Tools for the Long-Term Study, Management, and Protection of Shipwrecks from Coastal Erosion, Storm Surge, and Sea Level Rise (2020)
  45. The Impact of Cod Fishing and Trade on Coastal Development Strategies in Saint Pierre and Miquelon Archipelago (France, 17th-19th centuries) (2023)
  46. The Impact of Humans on Shipwrecks in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire (2019)
  47. The Impact of Preservation on the Determination of Sex from Human Remains in Archaeology (2014)
  48. The Impact of Spanish Colonialism on Florida’s Aboriginal Burials (2013)
  49. The Impact of the First Spanish Conquest on the Indigenous population in the Philippines (16th-18th centuries) (2014)
  50. Impact on food provisioning in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles, during the American Independence War (2014)
  51. Impacts of Atlantic Trade on Ceramic Manufacture in Berefet, The Gambia (2014)
  52. Impacts of Climate Change on Marginal Communities in the Archaeological Record (2022)
  53. Impacts to Sites Along the Santa Fe River, FL (2022)
  54. Imperial Education – Schools on Plantation Landscapes in the U.S. Virgin Islands (2023)
  55. Imperial Fortifications, Native Lifestyle: Indigenising Colonial Chile (2023)
  56. "The implementation of the 2001 Convention on the Underwater Cultural Heritage in sub-Saharan Africa: case study in Senegal and Gambia". (2023)
  57. The Implements of Colonialism: Excavation of a Cellared Structure in St. Mary’s Fort (2022)
  58. The Importance Of Place: Results Of Viewshed Analysis of Fort Spokane, Washington And Its Environs (2021)
  59. Imposed and Home-Grown Colonial Institutions: The Jesuit Chapels of St. Mary’s City and St. Francis Xavier, Maryland (2014)
  60. Impressions, Itineraries And Perceptions of a Coastscape: The Case of Medieval Paphos (12th-16th Century CE) (2018)
  61. Improved Accessibility of Submerged Cultural Materials through ArcGIS StoryMapping (2019)
  62. Improving Their Lot: Cultivating Communities & Landscape Change in Maine, 1760-1820 (2020)
  63. Improvise and Make Do: Virtual Archaeology Programs in Prince George’s County, Maryland (2021)
  64. "…in a few years by death and removes they were all gone…": Forced Relocation as Racial Violence (2016)
  65. In a Land of “Abundance”, Why did the Jamestown Colonists Starve During the Winter of 1609-1610? (2014)
  66. "In a New York State of Mind: Developing Stoneware Traditions in Virginia from Richmond to the Upper Shenandoah Valley" by Kurt C. Russ (2016)
  67. "…in a shanty I have constructed of planks, logs, and sand:" Final Interpretations for the "Peace-ful" Investigations of Temporary Civil War Barracks at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (2016)
  68. In Aguayo's Steps: From Thatched Jacals to Adobe Walls and Beyond--Archaeological Investigations at the 1722 site of the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar (2018)
  69. In Appreciation Of Marley Brown (2015)
  70. In Awe Of Death: A Comparative Analysis Of Glass Viewing Windows In American Caskets and Coffins (2017)
  71. In Every Grain of Sand, There is a Story: The story of Ada K. Damon as a Case Study in Fostering Maritime Archaeological Heritage and Education in Massachusetts. (2017)
  72. In Hot Water: Climate Change and Underwater Archaeology (2016)
  73. In Memoriam: Challenges in Historic Burial Ground Conservation (2020)
  74. In Pursuit of Eighteenth-Century Urban Landscapes in the "Old North State:" A Summary and Common Themes of 50+ Years of Urban Archaeology in North Carolina’s Colonial Country-politan Port Towns (2018)
  75. In Pursuit of the Mythical Master List: The Efforts to Make 90 years of Cemetery Surveys Useful in North Carolina, U.S.A. (2023)
  76. In Search of a 17th-Century Iberian Work Horse (2013)
  77. In Search of Agrarian Women in the Material Culture of the Post-bellum Sandhills (2020)
  78. In Search of Bonaparte: "Napoleon’s Hill" and the 1799 Siege of Acre/Akko, Israel (2023)
  79. In Search of Freedom: Investigating 19th Century African American Settlement Development in Southern Indiana (2019)
  80. In Search of La Garita: The Archaeological Discovery of the Spanish Colonial Watch Tower and Powder House (2018)
  81. In Search of Mineral Resources (2014)
  82. In Search Of....The Lost Kilns Of St. Elizabeths Hospital (2016)
  83. In Sickness And In Health: Well-being Of Enslaved Laborers At The Hermitage Plantation (2018)
  84. In Situ Digital Documentation of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks (2019)
  85. In situ Site Stabilization of HMS Fowey (2015)
  86. In Small Things Eroding: Mitigating Climate Crisis Impacts on Collections through 3D Digital Heritage (2023)
  87. In small things remembered; the sponge decorated ceramics from Inishark, Galway. (2013)
  88. In Southern Waters: Archaeological Manifestations of the War of 1812 along the seacoast of South Carolina (2014)
  89. In the Crossfire of Canons: A Study of Status, Space, and Interaction at Mid-19th Century Vancouver Barracks, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Washington (2016)
  90. In the Land of Milk and Honey? Non-Urban Jewish Spaces in Late Nineteenth Century Staunton, Virginia. (2017)
  91. In the Margins of History: The Hungate Neighbourhood of York, 1530-1930 (2013)
  92. In the Most Unlikely of Places: Marley R. Brown III, the College of William & Mary, and Foundational Moments in African Diaspora Archaeology (2015)
  93. In the Name of Development: Defense, Memory, and Land Use Surrounding Fort Lernoult in Nineteenth-Century Detroit, Michigan (2023)
  94. In the Name of Progress": Urban Renewal and Baltimore’s "Highway to Nowhere (2019)
  95. In the Shadow of Roots: History, Memory and Archaeology in The Gambia (2013)
  96. In the Shadow of Sugar: Dwelling in the Post-Emancipation Era, Montserrat (2020)
  97. In the Shadow of the Capitol – Stateless and Compliant: 50 Years of the NHPA in Washington, D.C. (2016)
  98. In the Smokehouse and the Quarter: exploring communities of consumption through faunal remains at the Montpelier plantation (2017)
  99. In The Wake of Malouin Fishermen : Ceramic Evidence of the Transatlantic Triangular Cod Trade, 17th-18th centuries. (2020)
  100. In the Weeds: Digging Deeply into the Paleoethnobotany of the early Colonial Chesapeake (2021)