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. Interpreting The Constructs For Enslaved Worker Housing In Virginia (2017)
  2. Interpreting the History of the Pullman Porters at the New Pullman National Monument Visitors Center (2022)
  3. Interpreting the Shared Yard Spaces of a 19th Century Plantation: Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida, 1814-1860 (2014)
  4. Interpreting the Sherds: Ceramic Consumption Practices in a Nineteenth Century Detroit Riverfront Neighborhood. (2016)
  5. Interpreting the Yreka Chinatown Collection through a Modern Lens (2020)
  6. Interpreting What Cannot Be Seen: The Challenges of Developing Public Outreach for an Inaccessible Site. (2015)
  7. Interpretive film and television public service announcements: documenting and protecting the Battle of Saipan (2015)
  8. Interpretive Inertia and Data Concatenation at Cannon’s Point, Georgia (2014)
  9. Interrogating Legacies of Industry: Industrial Ruins and the Creative Destruction of Capitalism (2018)
  10. Interrogating Notions of Freedom and Enslavement Through the Representation of Anna Kingsley at Kingsley Plantation (2014)
  11. Interrogating the Spatiality of Colonialism at Different Scales: Contrasting Examples from the Eighteenth-Century French-Canadian Borderland and the Early English Colony of Bermuda. (2017)
  12. Interrupting The Pattern Of Privilege: Redressing Access Inequality Through The Repatriation Of Knowledge (2023)
  13. Intersecting Histories: The Beman Triangle and Wesleyan University (2013)
  14. Intersection and Interaction Among Communities of Practice in the Spanish Colonial American Southwest (2014)
  15. The Intersection of Archaeology and Patriotism: Investigations at the San Antonio Mission Complex (2020)
  16. The Intersection Of Femininity And Masculinity Symbolically Materialized By Team Games For Boys In Historic Playgrounds (2016)
  17. The Intersection of Space and Power: Plantation Overseers in the American South (2014)
  18. An Intersectional Analysis of Personal Adornment at the African Meeting House in Boston (2020)
  19. An Intersectional Archaeology of Women's Reproductive Rights (2017)
  20. Intersectional Feminist Theory And Materializations Of Multiple, Fluid, Interacting Gender Identities, Exemplified By Immigrant Participants' Negotiations In Reform Women’s Programs Around The Turn Of The 20th Century (2018)
  21. Intersectional Violence and Documentary Archaeology in Rosewood, Florida (2013)
  22. Intersectionality and Labor Solidarity at Blair Mountain (2015)
  23. Intersectionality and Plantation Archaeology: Intertwining the Past, Present and Future (2018)
  24. Intersectionality, Strategic Essentialism, Third Spaces, and Charmed Circles: Using Dead Ladies’ Garbage to Explain Today’s America (2017)
  25. Intersections of Confinement: Space and Place at the Poston Japanese American Internment Camp, Arizona (2016)
  26. Intersections of Place, Landscape, and Spirit at Wye House (2014)
  27. Intersections: Using AR/VR Technology to Expand Archaeological Public Outreach and Increase Engagement (2020)
  28. Intertwined Landscapes of Memorialization at Booker T. Washington National Monument (2020)
  29. Intimate Identities: Archaeological Investigations of Nineteenth Century Sexuality (2014)
  30. Intimate Landscapes: Scale and Space in Household Archaeology (2013)
  31. Into the Blue: Underwater Archaeology in California State Parks (2015)
  32. Into the Deep: Montaukett whaling in the 18th and 19th centuries (2014)
  33. Into the Lumberjacks Life: An Archaeological Study of Quebec’s 20th Century Lumber Camps (2019)
  34. Intramural activities of a deerskin trading factory in colonial South Carolina (2013)
  35. Introducing the DAACS Research Consortium (2015)
  36. Introduction (2018)
  37. Introduction to a local ceramic culture: the tableware used in colonial Guadeloupe, French West Indies (2013)
  38. Introduction to Numismatic Archaeology of North America. (2017)
  39. An Introduction To The American Battlefield Protection Program: 25 Years of Working With Battlefield Archeology (2016)
  40. Introduction to the Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology Symposium, and the Digital Network for Nautical Archaeology (DNNA) (2023)
  41. An Introduction to the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Colonial St. Croix, USVI (2020)
  42. Introduction: Entangling Artisanal and Industrial Work in Archaeologies of Creativity (2013)
  43. Introduction: Experiencing urban transition and change (2013)
  44. Introduction: Jesuit Archaeology in the Americas (2019)
  45. The Inuit of Southern Labrador in Archaeological and Historical Context (2020)
  46. Inuit opportunism and long-term contact in southern Labrador (2014)
  47. Inuit Plant Use in Southern Labrador: A Study of Three Sod Houses from Huntingdon Island 5, Sandwich Bay, South Labrador (2014)
  48. Inuit Sod Houses on a Contested Coast (2020)
  49. Invasive Methods in Bioarchaeology: An Ethical issue? A Case Study from St. Matthew’s Cemetery, Québec (2014)
  50. Invesitgating Yard Spaces and Landscape at Liberty Hall (2023)
  51. Investigating 17th Century Wendat Patterns of Interactions in Global Contexts – Contributions from Glass Bead Studies (2023)
  52. Investigating a Cannon Site Conundrum in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica (2016)
  53. Investigating a possible Spanish Military Structure at the Site of San Joseph de Sapala, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2016)
  54. Investigating Choices: The Changing Medicinal Assemblage of the Carpenter Street Site in Springfield, Illinois (2021)
  55. Investigating Diet And Foodways In Post-medieval Ireland Using Organic Residue Analysis (2023)
  56. Investigating Maker’s Marks Discovered on Artifacts from the Engine Room of the USS Monitor (2018)
  57. Investigating Practices to Promote Student Safety and Inclusivity at Archaeological Field Schools (2022)
  58. Investigating Slave Life at an East Florida Sugar Plantation: Preliminary Results of the 2014 University of Florida Historical Archaeological Field School at Bulow Plantation, Flagler County, Florida (2015)
  59. Investigating Soldiers' Foodways (2013)
  60. Investigating Spanish Colonial Features Using GPR in Urban Settings (2017)
  61. Investigating The Ancient Port Of Sanitja, Menorca (2016)
  62. Investigating The Fortifications At Beech Grove (2018)
  63. Investigating the Intersection of Chinese and Euro-American Healthcare Practices in Nevada from 1860-1930 (2013)
  64. Investigating the Role of an Early Fortified Site in the Origins of a Slave Society: The (44PG65) Enclosed Compound at Flowerdew Hundred (2023)
  65. Investigating the Royal Navy submarine HMS/M A7 lost in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, in 1914; (2018)
  66. The Investigation and Preliminary Assessment of Ship Structure Associated with The Emanuel Point II Shipwreck (2017)
  67. Investigation of Shipwrecks from the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741 (2020)
  68. An Investigation Of Surface Assemblages Related To Contemporary Immigration In Southern Arizona (2015)
  69. The Investigation of the Anniversary Wreck, a Colonial Merchant Ship Lost off St. Augustine, Florida: Results of the 2017 Excavation Season (2018)
  70. The Investigation of the Anniversary Wreck, a Colonial Period Shipwreck off St. Augustine, Florida: Results of the First Excavation Season (2017)
  71. An Investigation of the Microbial Community Associated with the USS Arizona (2020)
  72. Investigation Of The Sequent Guard Houses At Cantonment Burgwin, Taos, New Mexico (2016)
  73. Investigations at Amisfield: A Late Medieval Scottish Tower House (2015)
  74. Investigations Into a Mid 20th Century Senegalese Pirogue and the Development of the Senegambian Boat Building Tradition (2023)
  75. Investigations into the Oldest Stadning Structure in North Carolina (2015)
  76. Investigations of the Beeswax Cargo of the 1576 San Felipe Manila Galleon. (2015)
  77. Investigations on a Vessel from Luna's 1559 Fleet and Survey for Additional Ships (2017)
  78. Investing in the Public: Benefits of Incorporating Public Archaeology in Field School Training (2023)
  79. Invisibility and Intersectionality: Seeking Free Black Women in Antebellum Kentucky (2018)
  80. Invisible History: Chinese Placer Mining Partnerships in 19th Century Oregon (2022)
  81. The Invisible Institution: Archaeological Expressions of Coerced Labour Control through the Manipulation of Information. (2015)
  82. Invisible Intentions and the Built Environment of a Detroit Backlot: Archaeological and Creative Interventions at the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead Site (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) (2023)
  83. The Invisible Moonbirds: Making Meaning from Unexpected Absences in the Archaeology of Wybalenna, a 19th Century Settlement of palawa (Tasmanian First Nations) Exiles (2023)
  84. ʻIolani Palace Revisited: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Reanalysis of a Legacy Collection (2020)
  85. Iranian Mediarchaeology: Cyrus the Great vs. the Global Stage (2013)
  86. Irish Folklore and Ceramic Pots: A Study of Irish Tenant Farmers (2019)
  87. Irish Migration To Early Nineteenth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts: Insights From Grave Memorials (2020)
  88. The Iron Coffin: An Artifact Out of Place and Time Recovered from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2023)
  89. Ironclads and Indian Mounds: The U.S. Mississippi River Squadron Naval Base at Mound City, Illinois (2015)
  90. Iroquoiens du Saint-Laurent, Algonquiens et Européens dans l’estuaire du Saint-Laurent au XVIe siècle / St. Lawrence Iroquoians, Algonquians and Europeans in the St. Lawrence Estuary in the XVIth century (2014)
  91. Irresistible Corruption: A Paelopathalogical Examination of Lead Poisoning and Its Shaping of the Mortality and Morbidity Profile of an Urban Industrial Period Quaker Population in North-East England (2015)
  92. Is 50 the New 25? The NHPA and the Southeast Archeological Center at 50: Reflections on Learning, Inclusion, and Stewardship (2016)
  93. Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects. (2020)
  94. Is Close Enough, Enough?: Negotiations of Self and Place in Castroville, Texas through Ceramics. (2017)
  95. Is it Guerrero? Investigations of an Early Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Near Key Largo, Florida (2021)
  96. Is There A Doctor On Board? Answering The Question Of Vasa's Barber Surgeon. (2018)
  97. Is There Evidence For Jewish Pirates Archaeologically? (2023)
  98. Is there uniquely Andean postcolonial theory, and is it relevant for historical archaeologists? (2014)
  99. Islamic consumption networks of the western Indian Ocean (2023)
  100. Island Improvement: Cultivating Change in the Eastern Frontier Landscape of Deer Isle, Maine (2021)