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. In the World and Of the World: Separatism as U.S. American Political Practice (2018)
  2. In Tough Seas: Overcoming Field Challenges Through Innovation and Partnerships with DPAA (2023)
  3. In Transition: The Collections and Veterans of the VCP (2023)
  4. The Incidental Discovery Of An Abandoned Early 20th Century Cemetery (2017)
  5. Inclusive Collaboration: A Model for Archaeologists Working with Descendant Communities (2022)
  6. Inclusivity in Underwater Archaeology: Understanding Barriers and Offering Solutions (2022)
  7. Incorporating Environmental Data as a Tool for Site Management in the Blackwater River (2014)
  8. Incorporating Ephemeral-ness: Archaeology of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum (2014)
  9. Incorporating historic archaeology to inform osteological interpretations of the Kleinburg ossuary skeletal collection (2014)
  10. Incorporating Laborers: Saunas in Industrial Finland (2017)
  11. Incorporationg Disaster Risk Reduction into Planning for Cultural Resource Preservation (2018)
  12. Increasing Ocean Literacy and Citizen Science Opportunities for Submerged Cultural Resources in Florida (2018)
  13. Incumbents and Others: de-centering mobility and kinship in Native northeastern landscapes (2014)
  14. Indexical "Bodies": Violence, Antisemitism, and Multicultural Heritage among the Gravestones and Monuments of Sarajevo's Old Jewish Cemetery (2023)
  15. The Indian Mariners Project at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum (2014)
  16. The Indian Mariners Project at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum (2014)
  17. "An Indian Nation, whose Object Appears to be to Obtain Both from Britain and Mexico, the Recognition of her Independence": International Diplomacy, Trade, and the Maya of San Pedro (2018)
  18. Indiana’s Maritime Heritage: Ongoing Investigations and Management Strategies for the 1910 Muskegon (aka Peerless) Shipwreck (12LE0381) (2018)
  19. Indianola, The Forgotten Gateway to Western Texas: A Proposed Plan of Archaeological Investigation, Preservation, and Outreach (2016)
  20. Indigeneity and Diaspora: Colonialism and the Classification of Displacement (2013)
  21. Indigeneity of Fur Trade Forts in the North American Pacific Northwest (2023)
  22. Indigenizing Catholicism in Colonial New Mexico (2022)
  23. Indigenous Ceramic Technology within the Pluralistic Context of Mission San Antonio de Valero (2022)
  24. An Indigenous Glass Bead Industry In The Northern Plains Of North America (2023)
  25. Indigenous navigation tradition in North Patagonia: connections, contacts and routes between theoriental and occidental slopes of the Andes (2014)
  26. Individual and Collective Memory of WWII in the Pacific: How Can Archaeology Contribute? (2020)
  27. Individual Creativity, Instrumental Symbolism, and the Constituents of Social Identity Construction (2013)
  28. Industrial Community Organization in Antebellum West Florida (2016)
  29. The Industrial Ruins of an "Empty Space": A High-Altitude Sulfur Mining Landscape in Northern Chile (2023)
  30. Industrial Transformations:  Plantation Labour in Antigua after Emancipation (2013)
  31. Industrialization, Deforestation, and Socioeconomic Dynamics in Ash Grove, Missouri 1880s-1930s. (2019)
  32. Industry in Ruins: Studies on the Gamble Plantation, Florida (2020)
  33. Inexorably Contemporary: Archaeology as Performance Art at Italian Hall Memorial Site, Calumet, Michigan (2015)
  34. Inexpensive X-rays, Invaluable Information: A Case Study from Two Data Recoveries. (2016)
  35. The Influence of the Slave Trade on Atlantic Shipbuilding (2016)
  36. Influences of Nineteenth-century Victorian Values on Health Concerns in Parramatta New South Wales (Australia) (2018)
  37. An Influx of Yankee Dollars and Ingenuity: The Archaeological Remains of Northwest Florida’s Cypress Logging Industry (2014)
  38. Infrared Imaging and Artifacts: Attempting to See Beyond the Human Eye (2015)
  39. The Infrastructure of Inequality: Modeling Movement in the 18th C. Andes (2023)
  40. Inhabiting and being Inhabited by Antarctica, Feedback from the Antarctic Field (2023)
  41. Inhabiting Vatnsfjörður, Northwest Iceland: land, sea and movement (2013)
  42. Inhambane/Inhafoco and Mozambique Ilha/Mossuril: Maritime Archaeological Approaches toTwo Mozambican Slaving Landscapes (2016)
  43. Initial Deepwater Archaeological Survey and Assessment of the Atomic Target Vessel US Independence (CVL22) (2016)
  44. Initial Insights Into The Geochemistry of the Surface Sheens Emanating From The USS Arizona (2020)
  45. An Initial Site Assessment of Submerged Naval Aircraft off the Coast of Pensacola, Florida (2016)
  46. Inkwells: Plain and Fancy, Personal and Commercial (2020)
  47. Inland Rice Plantations in Jasper County, South Carolina:  Preliminary Results (2013)
  48. Innovation, Entrepreneurialism, And Entanglement: A Case Study Of Chinese-run Extractive Industries And Resource Frontiers In The American West (2020)
  49. Innovations in Geophysical Survey of a WWII B-24H in a duck pond in Morgo, Italy (2020)
  50. Innovative Methods for the Documentation of a B-24 Wreck off Montalto di Castro, Italy (2020)
  51. Inquiry and Modeling: Turning Misconceptions into Informed Knowledge (2020)
  52. Inquiry-Based Learning and the Kingsley Shelter Curriculum (2013)
  53. Inroduction to the John Hollister Site (2018)
  54. The Inscribed Word vs. the Spoken Word in African History and Archaeology (2013)
  55. Insect Remains From Early Modern Church Graves of Northern Ostrobothnian (Finland) Coast (2019)
  56. Insights from Metal-Detecting and Subsurface Testing: Education, Collaboration, and Experiential Learning at Custaloga Town (36ME57), Pennsylvania. (2019)
  57. Insights from the Virginia Street Bridge Demolition and Replacement Project, Reno NV (2016)
  58. Insights in the Unexpected: A Discovery of Cattle Horns and Beads (2014)
  59. Insights into Acadian Husbandry Practices: A Zooarchaeological Perspective (2014)
  60. Insights into Nineteenth Century US Westward Expansion from the River Basin Surveys Collections. (2015)
  61. Insights on the American Experience from Zooarchaeology (2013)
  62. The Inspiration of Landscape in the Works of Vardis Fisher (2013)
  63. Institutionalizing Repatriation: Creating a More Inclusive University Policy (2023)
  64. Institutions of the Reformation, Institutions of Reform: Archaeology, Protestantism, and Modernity in the South Pacific (2013)
  65. Insufferable Conduct: The Slave Overseer in 18th-Century Virginia (2018)
  66. Integrated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and marine Overhauser magnetometer for high-resolution marine archaeological survey (2014)
  67. Integrated Maritime Cultural Landscape for Management of Vulnerable Coastal Communities’ Heritage (2020)
  68. Integrating Cultural Heritage into the work of The Ocean Foundation (TOF) (2021)
  69. Integrating Material Culture from the Betty’s Hope Archaeological Project: a Multifaceted Approach (2013)
  70. Integrating pollen and macrobotanical evidence to understand change in African-American lifeways at Monticello (2018)
  71. Integrating Teacher Professional Development with Archaeological Summer Camps (2018)
  72. Intellectual "Treasure Hunting:" Measuring Effects of Treasure Salvors on Spanish Colonial Shipwreck Sites (2016)
  73. An Intellectual Genealogy of Plymouth Colony Archaeology (2022)
  74. Intemperate Men: Alcohol and Autonomy Within the Lumber Camps of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (2020)
  75. Intentionally Transformational: Supporting the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development through a Conversation on Inclusion (2021)
  76. Interacting with the Past: Assassin's Creed, Landscapes, and Other Talking Points (2017)
  77. Interactions Across the Landscape: Interpreting Social Relationships within Montpelier’s Black Community (2015)
  78. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Archaeology and Public Participation (2014)
  79. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Historical Analogy: Drawing Parallels Between Early 20th Century and Modern Immigrant Groups in Hazleton, Pennsylvania  (2013)
  80. Interdisciplinary Solutions for Intradisciplinary Setbacks: An Eclectic Approach to Problem Solving (2017)
  81. The internal other: economic and social differences as signs of primitiveness in late nineteenth century Europe. (2013)
  82. The International Boundary Commission Monuments – 1848 to Today. (2017)
  83. The International Boundary of the U.S. and Mexico: Water, Rock, Steel and Concrete (2020)
  84. An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies (2020)
  85. International Repatriation: A Study of Awareness Among US-based Practitioners (2023)
  86. Internment camps in the Caribbean during the Second World War (2020)
  87. Interns and Volunteers and 7th graders , Oh My! (2016)
  88. Interpretaions of Slavery throughout the Middle Atlantic Region (2016)
  89. Interpretations of Architectural Remains at Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, MI (2018)
  90. Interpreting a Changing Cultural Landscape – A California Rancho (2017)
  91. Interpreting Communities in Conflict: Utilizing Captain Johann Ewald’s Journal as a Lens to Analyze the Paoli Battlefield (2016)
  92. Interpreting Fur Trade Sites: A View from the Pacific Northwest (2018)
  93. Interpreting Interment: An Analysis of Orientation in Harrington Cemetery, Delaware Graveshafts (2022)
  94. Interpreting Landscapes of Slavery at James Monroe’s Highland (2018)
  95. Interpreting Lost Landscapes Within a Historic Standing Structure, the 1617-1647 Timber Frame Church at Jamestown. (2020)
  96. Interpreting Race in Public: Collaborations Between Historical Archaeologists and Public Historians (2015)
  97. Interpreting Slavery from Urban Spaces: African Diaspora Archaeology and the Christiansted National Historic Site (2016)
  98. Interpreting Stratigraphy in the San Antonio Missions: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2018)
  99. Interpreting the 2020 Election: What the Results Mean for Historical Archaeology (2021)
  100. Interpreting The Architectural And Colonial Palimpsests Of The Fort Vancouver Village (2015)