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. Islandborn: Country, Sea Country and Encounters with Outside (2023)
  2. Issues in Historical Archaeology in the American Southwest (2014)
  3. Issues in Interpretation and Presentation of Cherokee Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (2018)
  4. Issues of Identity Through the Material Remains of the First Cathedral of New Spain (2022)
  5. It Always Comes Back to Identity: Materiality and Presidio Soldier Identity During the 1720-1726 Occupation of Presidio La Bahia (41VT4), Victoria County, Texas (2017)
  6. "It Came From Too-loo-ar’s Ship": A Relic From Sir John Franklin’s HMS Erebus (2023)
  7. "It Doesn’t Matter if You’re a Citizen": Emic Perspectives on Border Patrol and Security from a Southern Arizona Border Town (2015)
  8. It Happened Centuries Ago: Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques to Map the Quilombo dos Palmares (2021)
  9. It is Christmas and the House is on Fire: Understanding Labor Relations in Late Nineteenth-Century Baltimore (2017)
  10. "It is promised to them:" Loyalist Refugees’ Adaptation in the Exumas Cays, Bahamas (1784–1810) (2013)
  11. "It Is the Devil’s Business": Acceptable Labor, Clandestine Labor, and Sex Work (2022)
  12. "It sounds second class, but the music was first class entertainment:" Mapping the Chitlin Circuit. (2018)
  13. "It Stands on High Ground": LiDAR, Viewsheds, and Vistas at Custis Square, Williamsburg, Virginia (2021)
  14. It Takes A Village: Archaeology And Community At Camp Security (2022)
  15. It Takes a Village: Resurrecting Archeology at Fort Frederica National Monument (2020)
  16. It takes a village: Utilizing a synthesis of old and new data to better understand the patterning of workers’ housing of iron furnaces in western Maryland. (2018)
  17. It's All Fun And Gaming Pieces: An Exploration of Gaming Pieces From Colonial St. Augustine (2018)
  18. It's Just Business: Crop Commercialization and Impacts on Ritual Consumption in Spanish Colonial Contexts (2023)
  19. It's More Than Lincoln: interpretation challenges at multi-component urban archaeological sites (2023)
  20. It's Not an Anomaly: Demonstrating the Principles and Practice of Investigating Adobe Features with Ground-Penetrating Radar (2018)
  21. It's the Pits: Analysis of Civil War Camp Features at Gloucester Point, Virginia (2018)
  22. Itinerant Agents: Colonial Representatives at the Obraje de Chincheros (2019)
  23. "It’s a Bloom!"—Recollections on Martin Frobisher, Kodlunarn Island, and the Meta Incognita Project (2020)
  24. It’s in the Bag: An Analysis of the Skiffes Creek Archaeological Collections Assessment Project (2022)
  25. "It’s not about us": Exploring Race, Community, and Commemoration at the "Angela Site" on Jamestown Island, Virginia. (2020)
  26. "It’s not all Disturbed!": Perspectives of Urban, Municipal Archaeology in the Nation’s Oldest City in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)
  27. It’s One Site, And It’s 90 Miles Long… (2020)
  28. It’s The Little Things That Matter: Rethinking Peripheral Terrain At The Battle Of Monmouth, June 28, 1778 (2021)
  29. "It’s What’s Best for the City": Moral Authority, Power Relations and Urban Erasure in Transit Corridors (2019)
  30. The "ivory wreck": a probable 18th century British shipwreck in Faial Island (Azores, Portugal) (2013)
  31. "I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay . . . .": Inspiring Critical Reflection on Gender and Bias (2017)
  32. "I’m not Black, I’m Dominican": Diaspora and bioarchaeology from a descendant’s perspective (2023)
  33. I’m Too Tired To Come Up With A Clever Title: Mothering and Archaeology-ing In The 21st Century (2020)
  34. Jacalitos de Tule: Weaving Stories of Domestic Life at San Gabriel Mission (2018)
  35. James Lees and the Enslaved African Occupation at Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts, West Indies (2013)
  36. Jamestown 1619: Representation, Religion, and Race (2018)
  37. Jamestown And Early Domestic Horse Use In Eastern North America (2023)
  38. Jamestown and New Orleans: Landscapes, Entrepots and Global Currents (2018)
  39. Jamestown at Home: Enhanced Digital Outreach amidst the Pandemic (2021)
  40. Jamestown, Virginia: The Curators’ View (2023)
  41. Jamestown: An English Fort in the Land of Tsenacommacah (2023)
  42. Jamestown’s "Blew Beads": More than Meets the Eye (2023)
  43. Jamestown’s 1617 Church: Finding the Founder and Foundations of Representative Government (2020)
  44. Japanese porcelain cups from a Hawaiian ranch cabin: alcohol, tea, and the socialization of immigrants (2014)
  45. The Jeanne-Elisabeth, 1755 (2014)
  46. Jesuit Crucifixes Or Whitby Jet Witch Charms: A New Interpretation Of Jamestowne’s Jet Objects (2023)
  47. Jesuit Mission Economics and Plantations in the Caribbean (2016)
  48. Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Mariana Islands (1668-1769) (2014)
  49. ‘The Jesuits Mission Proves We Were Here’: 18th Century Jesuit Missions Aiding 21st Century Tribal Recognition. (2019)
  50. Jesuits Missionaries Establishment in French Guiana: Archaeological Potential and Research Perspectives (2019)
  51. Jettisoned: History, Discovery, and Recovery of the CSS Pee Dee armament (2020)
  52. Jewels of the Werowances: An Archaeological Analysis of Copper in Eastern Algonquian Societies (2018)
  53. The Jewish Diaspora across Greater Boston’s landscape: A feminist analysis of complex intersections between race, ethnicity, class, gender, and religion (2014)
  54. John Drayton’s Garden House: An Archaeological and Architectural Examination of a Gentleman’s Retreat in the Context of the Anglo-Palladian Movement in Colonial South Carolina. (2013)
  55. John Hejduk's Masque as a Mode of Archaeological Inquiry (2023)
  56. The John Hollister Site: Smoking and Money (2018)
  57. John Jarvie Ranch: A Test Case for the Future of Public Interpretation (2020)
  58. A Journey Without Maps: Following the path of the archaeological genealogy of Mary Beaudry (2022)
  59. Jumping the Legal Color Line: Negotiating Racial Geographies in the 19th Century (2015)
  60. Junk Drawers and Spirit Caches: Alternative Interpretations of Archaeological Assemblages at Sites Occupied by Enslaved Africans (2016)
  61. Just Another Brick in the Wall: Brick Looting in the Antebellum Lowcountry of South Carolina (2016)
  62. "Just At Dawn We Found Ourselves In The Environs Of Princeton:" A Reinterpretation Of The Battle Of Princeton, 3 January 1777 (2016)
  63. Just Nuisance to Standby Diver: Exploring the cultural heritage of Simon’s Towns as a British Naval Port and South African Navy Base (2023)
  64. The Kaolin Clay Pipes (2023)
  65. Kathleen Gilmore and the Archaeological Investigations of La Salle’s Fort St. Louis in Texas (2017)
  66. The Katie Eccles: Reconstructing the Hull Lines of a Great Lakes Schooner (2022)
  67. Kayaking the Main Line Canal along the Kiski: Use of LiDAR in Predictive Modelling for Historical Linear Structures (2020)
  68. Kaše Breakwater - The Symbol Of The Old Port of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) (2023)
  69. Keepers of the Flame: Inughuit Women at Floeberg Beach, Nunavut, 1905-1909 (2014)
  70. Keepers of the Flame: Inughuit Women at Floeberg Beach, Nunavut, 1905-1909 (2014)
  71. Keeping in touch: tombs in the urban space of Swahili towns, East Africa (2014)
  72. Keeping in touch: tombs in the urban space of Swahili towns, East Africa (2014)
  73. Keeping the Light: Lighthouse Keepers, Status, and the St. Augustine Lighthouse (2018)
  74. Kenilworth – new evidence for the destruction of the castle (2013)
  75. The Kennemeland, then and now; managing high value wreck sites. (2013)
  76. The Kentucky Ghost Ship and Ownership of Abandoned Watercraft (2018)
  77. "Kept on the Run": Urban Erasures in Essex County, NJ (2019)
  78. Kids in the Trenches: Women as Mothers and Professionals in Archaeology (2020)
  79. King Philip's War: America's Forgotten War (2020)
  80. Kingston Harbor and the Burgeoning Landscape of World War (2020)
  81. Kiska: Alaska’s Underwater Battlefield (2020)
  82. Kitchen Space in the Wing of Offices at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2018)
  83. Kitchen Things: Material Entanglement and Modernity in 19th- Century Iceland (2019)
  84. Knee Deep in Paul Revere’s Privy(?): Archaeology of the Paul Revere Houselot, Boston, Massachusetts (2014)
  85. The Knight’s Tomb (2018)
  86. Knocking on Davy Jones’’s Locker: The Unusual Circumstances of War of 1812 Wrecks USS Hamilton and USS Scourge (2014)
  87. Knowing Your Neighbor: Ceramic and Glassware Consumption Patterns and Sociality in a 19th-Century African American Household (2023)
  88. Knowledge Beyond the Sea: Dissemination of Shipbuilding Knowledge and Shipwrights Communities of Practice in the Atlantic World (2023)
  89. Known Sites, Unknown States: Monitoring Acitivities on Intertidal Sites in St. Augustine (2020)
  90. La Baie de Gorée Dans la Structuration De l’histoire Maritime de la Presqu’île du Cap-Vert (2023)
  91. La Belle: Lessons Learned and Applied in Order to Restructure the Use of Watercraft Data (2017)
  92. La Belle: The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Ship of New World Colonization (2016)
  93. La Concorde and Queen Anne’s Revenge: A Global Voyage Continues, 1717 to 2037 (2018)
  94. La céramique : élément décoratif sur la façade coloniale de Bejaia (Algérie) (2014)
  95. La céramique dans les Pyrénées centrales (France) depuis le XVIe siècle (2014)
  96. La Faïencerie De La Nouvelle Orleans: French Colonial Faience Production In New Orleans, Louisiana (2018)
  97. La gestion des vestiges archéologiques en France : des fiches méthodologiques pour leur évaluation, leur sélection et leur conservation sélective. L’exemple du bois (2014)
  98. ‘La Gripe’ Among the Navajos in the Lower San Juan River Basin (2014)
  99. La Juliana 1588 – Recent investigation by the Underwater Archaeology Unit, National Monuments Service at the site of one of the 1588 Spanish Armada shipwrecks. (2016)
  100. La mise en valeur de la maison Robert Bélanger (2014)