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. La Natière 1999/2008: What we have learnt from a Large, Multi-years French underwater excavation (2014)
  2. La place du site de Red Bay dans l’histoire de l’archéologie subaquatique de Parcs Canada (2014)
  3. La reducción de San Ignacio Mini : Ideología, espacio y arquitectura en la Provincia Jesuítica del Paraguay (Brasil y Argentina, 1610 ‘ 1767) (2014)
  4. La vie à bord de “La Dauphine” et de “l’Aimable Grenot” (baie de Saint-Malo, France): études archéodendrométriques (2014)
  5. LA-ICP-MS (Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) of Jet Artifacts from Spanish Colonial Florida (2022)
  6. Labor Heritage at the Homestead Waterfront (2016)
  7. Labor History and Worker Visibility in Mexican Archaeology (2021)
  8. The labor of making: Crafting ceramics in Medieval South India (2021)
  9. Labor Relations and Ceramic Technology in Spanish Northwest Florida (1698-1763) (2023)
  10. Labor Relations and Landscape: Slave Built Agricultural Retaining Walls on the Quill, St. Eustatius. (2015)
  11. Labor, settlement, and race: Investigating ‘Plural’ Sites in Eastern Long Island, NY (2014)
  12. The Laboratory of Aquatic Environments Archaeology of Federal University of Sergipe (LAAA-UFS): Ten Years of Research (2009-2019) (2020)
  13. Laboring along the Rio Grande: Contextualizing Labor of the Spanish Early Colonial Period of New Mexico. (2018)
  14. Laboring on the Edge: The Loma Prieta Mill and the Timber Industry in Nineteenth Century California (2018)
  15. Laboring under an illusion: steps to align method with theory in the archaeology of race (2014)
  16. Labor’s Failure? (2020)
  17. Labrador: Inuit and Europeans, more than just a trade (2016)
  18. A Lacustrine Harbour case study: Magdala on the Kinneret Lake (Israel). Urban development of a Harbour City from Late Hellenistic to Islamic period (2014)
  19. The Lager Vaults of Schnaederbeck's Brewery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2017)
  20. The Lake Austin and the Bob Hall Pier Wreck: A Study of Beached Shipwrecks Along Mustang and North Padre Islands, Texas (2023)
  21. Lake Champlain Steamboat Archaeology: A 15-minute Primer. (2016)
  22. Lake Champlain’s Steamboat Phoenix II: Mixing New and Traditional Underwater Archaeological Methods for Reconstruction (2017)
  23. Lake Erie Shipwrecks and Submerged Landscapes: Results from the 2018 Survey (2019)
  24. Lake Mead's Cold War Legacy: The Aviation Archeology of a Secret Mission (2020)
  25. The Lake Oneida Durham Boat (2015)
  26. Lake Tahoe Maritime Heritage Trail (2016)
  27. Land and the Social Consequences of Land Loss: Navajo Oral History, Ethnoarchaeology, and Spatial Analysis at Wupatki National Monument, Arizona. (2018)
  28. Land use and evolution of Castillo San Felipe del Morro's Esplanade (2020)
  29. Land, Labor, and Memory: Plantation Landscapes in Martinique (2016)
  30. Land, Lumber and Labor (2016)
  31. The Landcestors: Preserving Acadian History in a Planter Settlement (2014)
  32. Landlord Villages Of Iran As An Example Of Political Economy In Historical Archaeology (2016)
  33. Landmark Issues in Historical Archaeology (2015)
  34. Landscape Analysis of a Sonoma Coast Doghole Port: Exploring the Intersections of Extractive Industries, Ranching, and Transportation (2019)
  35. Landscape Archaeology at St. Elizabeths Hospital West Campus (2016)
  36. Landscape Archaeology at the Orillon Bastion, Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts (2018)
  37. A Landscape Archaeology of Transjordan in the Mandate Period (1918-1946) (2013)
  38. The Landscape is a Machine: Transnational and Labor Heritage Landscapes of the Anthracite Coal Region (2019)
  39. Landscape Legacies of Sugarcane Monoculture at Betty’s Hope Plantation, Antigua, West Indies (2016)
  40. Landscape Modelling and Geospatial Analysis of Fort Mose Environs (2022)
  41. Landscape of a Shootout: A Reexamination of the National Register Nomination for the Power Cabin (2020)
  42. The Landscape of Black New Yorkers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2023)
  43. The Landscape of Black Placelessness: African American Place and Heritage on the Postwar Campus (2022)
  44. Landscape of Conflict/Landscape of Freedom: The Battle of Island Mound and the Missouri-Kansas Border War (2022)
  45. The Landscape of Death and Burials at the San Diego Presidio (2018)
  46. The Landscape of Fear on the Edge of the World: Small island life on Antigua 1667-1815 (2015)
  47. The Landscape of Slavery within Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Pavilion VI Garden (2016)
  48. Landscape Perspective on Cowboy Life and Ranching Along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment of Northwestern Texas (2016)
  49. A Landscape Revealed: New Analysis of Surface Finds from Fort Delaware (2020)
  50. A Landscape They Didn’t See: The Great Rappahannock Town at Mid-Century (2023)
  51. The Landscape through Nat Turner’s Eyes (2018)
  52. Landscape Transformation and Use at the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston's West End (2016)
  53. Landscape Transformation: Bay Bull, Cod and Warfare in the Longue Durée (2023)
  54. Landscape, Public Archaeology, and Memory (2016)
  55. Landscape: Engaging the Past in the Present (2014)
  56. Landscapes and Lived Spaces: Preliminary Survey Of An 19th Century Enslaved and Emancipated Community At The North End Site (9MC81), Creighton Island, GA. (2022)
  57. Landscapes of Battle and the Search for the Missing (2017)
  58. Landscapes of Black Farming: A Preliminary Investigation of Rural Life and Labor in Anderson County, SC and Madison County, NY, 1860-1880 (2022)
  59. Landscapes of Desire: Mapping the Brothels of 1880s Washington, DC (2016)
  60. Landscapes of desire: parks, colonialism and identity in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland (2013)
  61. Landscapes of Economic Liberalism: Archaeological Survey of the Muskingum River Navigation in Southeast Ohio (2020)
  62. Landscapes of Forgetting and the Materiality of Enslavement: Using Class, Ethnicity, and Gender to Search for the Invisible on a Post-Colonial French Houselot in the Illinois Country (2017)
  63. Landscapes of Industry and Ancestry, Voyageurs National Park in 1927 (2015)
  64. Landscapes of Inequality: the Issue with High-End Digital and Computational Methodologies in the Study of Colonial Latin America’s Past (2023)
  65. Landscapes of Labor in the 17th Century Potomac Valley (2018)
  66. Landscapes Of Liminality: Trail Of Tears Disbandment Sites In Indian Territory (2021)
  67. Landscapes of Memory and Meaning at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument (2020)
  68. The Landscapes of Modern Conservative Utopias in the United States: potentials for archaeological and spatial analysis (2018)
  69. Landscapes of Oblivion: Forgetting burial grounds and placing the past (2018)
  70. Landscapes of Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century French Guiana (2023)
  71. The Landscapes of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (2018)
  72. Landscapes of the Borderlands: Efficacy and Ethics of Applying Archaeological Spatial Analysis to Undocumented Migration in the Arizona Desert. (2015)
  73. Landscapes of the Early Chalukyas (ca. 500-ca. 750 CE): a historical archaeology (2021)
  74. Landschaft and Placemaking at George Washington’s Ferry Farm (2013)
  75. Language, Identity, and Communication: an Exploration of Cultural and Linguistic Hybridity in Post-Colonial Peru (2013)
  76. Lançar Ferro em Lisboa: A Study Of Anchors In The Lisbon Waterfront (2023)
  77. "A Large and General Assortment": Fancy Goods Stores and the Retailer-Consumer Relationship in Christchurch, New Zealand. (2020)
  78. Las Animas City, Colorado Territory, USA: A "Half Mexican Village" in the American West (2013)
  79. Las Cadenas que más nos Encadenan son las Cadenas que Hemos Roto: The Yucatecan Hacienda, Capitalist Mentalities, and the Production of Space and Identity (2015)
  80. Laser Scanning as a Methodology for the Documentation and Interpretation of Archaeological Ships: A Case Study Using the 18th Century Ship from Alexandria, VA and the 18th Century Ship Found Below the World Trade Center in New York. (2018)
  81. Laser Scanning as a Methodology for the Recording and Reconstruction of Archaeological Ships (2023)
  82. Laser Scanning the Alexandria, VA Ships for 3D Digital Reconstruction (2022)
  83. Laser Scanning Vs Photogrammetric Survey In Maritime Archaeology (2023)
  84. Last Call! One More For The Road: Dissertating With Existing Collections (2020)
  85. A Last Life: The Reuse of Ship Timbers on the Construction of River Waterfronts on Rua D. Luís I (Lisbon) (2023)
  86. The Last Schooners Project 2019 Pilot Season: the Katie Eccles (2020)
  87. Lasting Legacies of the Hermitage Archaeology Program (2018)
  88. The Late 1570s Manila Galleon Shipwreck in Baja California (2017)
  89. Late 17th-Century Demographic and Settlement Patterns Among Swedish Families in the Delaware Valley (2015)
  90. Late 18th century tin-glazed earthenware factories in Rennes (Brittany, France) (2014)
  91. Late colonial Andean revolts and rebellions: A view from the archaeology of labor and identity (2014)
  92. Later, they sailed out and eastward from there along the shore...: New evidence for Norse voyaging from L’Anse aux Meadows (2014)
  93. Latin American Archaeology Collections in European Museums in Decolonial Times (2023)
  94. Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer – Interpreting the Historic Shipwreck Sites of Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea, through GIS (2018)
  95. A Layered Landscape: The Past, Present, and Future of Archaeology at Fort Ticonderoga (2019)
  96. Laying Aloft in Modern Times: Exploring the Potential of Collaborative Work Between Nautical Archaeology and Tall Ship Organizations (2020)
  97. Le retour de la txalupa basque de Red Bay (2014)
  98. Lead and Tallow: Using Navigational Charts to Assess Historic Bathymetry (2020)
  99. Lead Fabric Seals from the French Fort St. Pierre (1719-1729) Artifact Assemblage (2014)
  100. A leading analysis: Lead objects on French Frigates of the Early 18th century, according to La Natière Shipwrecks (2014)