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. Leafy Legacies: The Ecofactual Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation (2017)
  2. Learned Landscapes: Colonoware Concentrations on Virginia's Northern Neck (2023)
  3. Learning DIY from the University of Orange (2015)
  4. Learning From (Un)Marked Graves: The Evalutation of Captive and Freed African and African American Mortuary Practices (2023)
  5. Learning from Loss 2018 (2019)
  6. Learning Through Compliance: Engaging Students and Volunteers Through NAGPRA Work at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (2021)
  7. Learning To Live: Gender And Labor At Indian Boarding Schools (2016)
  8. LEARNing with Archaeology at James Madison’s Montpelier: Engaging with the Public and Descendants through Immersive Archaeological Programs (2016)
  9. The Leather Assemblage from the Site of CSS Georgia (2023)
  10. "Leave Nothing the Enemy Can Use": Impacts of a Confederate Raid (2018)
  11. Leaving a Mark: An Analysis of Graphite at Jamestown (2017)
  12. "Led Into The Fire Of The Whole Body Of The Enemy": Archaeological Survey Of The Stone Arabia Battlefield 19 October 1780 (2022)
  13. The Leedstown (Virginia) Bead Cache: A Contextual Approach (2020)
  14. Leetown: A Hamlet’s Role in the Historical Battle of Pea Ridge and Beyond (2019)
  15. Legacies of an Old Design: Reconstructing Rapid’s Lines Using 3D Modelling Software (2016)
  16. Legacies of Resistance in Postcolonial Yucatán (2018)
  17. The Legacy and Loss of USS Juneau: Wreck Analysis (2022)
  18. Legacy Archaeology and Cultural Landscapes at Fort Ouiatenon (2016)
  19. The Legacy of the Early-18th Century South Carolina Anglican Church (2014)
  20. The Legacy Of The Minnesota Civilian Conservation Corps: Evaluating Civilian Conservation Corps Camps As Archaeological Properties (2015)
  21. The Legal Language of Sex: Interpreting a Hierarchy of Prostitution Using the Terminology of Criminal Charges (2016)
  22. Legitimizing Atlantis: The Use of Artificial Archaeology to Establish Heritage and a Sense of Place at the Atlantis Resort, Bahamas (2013)
  23. Lengthier Studies, Fewer Explosions: How Mass Effect Showcases the Future of Archaeology Through Liara T'Son (2017)
  24. Les abenakis de la rivière Saint-François au 18e siècle et la question du fort d’Odanak/ St. Francois River Abenakis in the 18th century and the Fort Odanak Issue (2014)
  25. Les apports récents de l’archéologie à la connaissance des fortifications modernes de La Rochelle (2014)
  26. Les contours du champ épistémologique de l’archéologie historique au Cameroun (2014)
  27. Les céramiques de La Chapelle-des-Pots dans la collection des Musées de Saintes (2014)
  28. Les céramiques de raffinage du sucre : comparaison des productions caractérisées en Guadeloupe et en métropole (2014)
  29. Les soldats et les sauvages en la Louisiane: Entangling Alliances at Fort Louis and Fort Tombecbé (2014)
  30. Less Heroic, More Human: Archeology Of Nineteenth-century Whalers And Sealers In The South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. (2023)
  31. Less of the Same? Poor households in post-medieval England. (2013)
  32. Less Than Human: The Institutional Origins of the Medical Waste Recovered at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2020)
  33. Lessons In Advocacy: The International Space Station And The Archaeology Community (2020)
  34. Lessons Learned: Assembling and Implementing a Toolkit for Identifying Colonial Period Sites (2020)
  35. Lessons Learned: When the Public Speaks Out (2016)
  36. Lessons that Count: The La Belle Project, A Large-Scale Excavation in the Gulf of Mexico (2014)
  37. "Let My Body Be Buried Here": Taking a Long View of Chinese Immigrants to the American West (2016)
  38. Let’s Talk Form: Using Vessel Form Analysis to Identify Food Provisioning Patterns on Spanish Ships in the 16th Century (2023)
  39. Levels of Commodification: Interpreting ideologies of consumption by classifying the relative commodification of ceramic vessel assemblages (2014)
  40. Leveraging Funding To Investigate our Past: NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Grants Program (2023)
  41. Lewis Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Fairfield Plantation after the Burwells (2020)
  42. Liberia’s Plymouth Rock?: Archaeologies of Freedom-Making, Settler Colonialism, and National Heritage on Providence Island (2023)
  43. LiDAR, Historic Maps, Pedestrian Survey, and Shovel Tests: Defining Slave Independence on Sapelo Island, Georgia (2017)
  44. Life after Retirement – Lending a Helping Hook to the QAR Project (2018)
  45. Life after Sugar: an Archaeology of the First Generation Post-emancipation in St. Peter’s Parish, Montserrat (2017)
  46. Life Along the Grade: Archaeology of the Chinese Railroad Builders and Maintenance Crews in Utah (2016)
  47. Life Among Ruins: Bermuda and Britain’s Imperial Debris (2014)
  48. Life Among the Wind and Waves: Examining Living Conditions on Sailing Vessels Through the Use of Microscopic Remains (2016)
  49. Life and Death Inside and Outside the Village of Marshall's Pen (2013)
  50. Life and Death on the Edge: 19th Century Chinese Abalone Fisheries on California’s Channel Islands (2016)
  51. Life and Labor at a Small Quicklime Production Operation in Sierra Nevada (2023)
  52. Life and Labor at Habitation la Caroline, French Guiana (2019)
  53. Life and Labor: An Archaeological Exploration of the Lives of Enslaved African Americans at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (2020)
  54. The Life and Suicide of a Florist in Southwest Missouri: William Franklin Sampson. (2020)
  55. Life Continues as the Hearth Fire is Eternal: The McCarthy Family and Life in Post-Famine Ireland (2020)
  56. Life Course as Slow Bioarchaeology: Recovering the Lives of Laborers and Immigrants in an Anatomical Collection (2020)
  57. The Life Cycle of a Slave Cabin: Results of the 2014 and 2015 University of Florida Historical Archaeological Field Schools at Bulow Plantation, Flagler County, Florida (2016)
  58. Life in a new land: Russian Molokans in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles (2020)
  59. Life In The River Wards: The History Of Kensington And Port Richmond (2016)
  60. Life in the Ruins: Logging and Squatting at a 19th Century Village in Southwest Michigan (2017)
  61. A life less than ordinary: The schooner ‘Ocean’ (1821-1865) (2021)
  62. A Life of Limes and Leisure: A Post-Emancipation Quaker Elite Site in Montserrat, West Indies (2019)
  63. Life On The Borderlands Of The Colonial Potomac: Exploring Chicacoan (2017)
  64. Life on the Farm: The Environmental Archaeology of Harriet Tubman’s Home (2014)
  65. Life on the Patuxent: An Analysis of Brick Material Culture at Cremona Estate (2014)
  66. Lighting the Ruhr: Industrial heritage and photography at night (2018)
  67. Like Pulling Teeth: Relationships Between Material Culture And Osteology At The Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2018)
  68. "Like rain in a drouth": Omaha, Nebraska's Costly Signaling at the Trans-Mississsippi and International Exposition of 1898 (2013)
  69. "Like winning the Stanley Cup": The Discovery of Sir John Franklin's HMS Erebus in the Canadian Arctic (2016)
  70. Limbus Infantum: Shrouds, Safety Pins, and the Materiality of Personhood in Juvenile Burials at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2018)
  71. Linking Archaeological and Documentary Evidence for Material Culture in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida: The View from the Luna Settlement and Fleet (2018)
  72. Linking Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Action, and Cultural Resource Management for Development (2018)
  73. The "Linking Hispanic Heritage Through Archaeology" Program: Using National Parks to Engage Latino Youth With Their Cultural Heritage (2016)
  74. Lipton Tea Tins Chronology (2015)
  75. The Liquid Gold Rush: Oil and the Archaeological Boom (2016)
  76. Liquid Power: An archaeological excavation of an Antiguan rum distillery. (2016)
  77. A Lithic Analysis of Paraje San Diego, New Mexico, United States (2017)
  78. Lithic Communities of Practice at the Missions of La Florida (2018)
  79. Lithics Animated (2022)
  80. Lithics Revisited: An Analysis of Native American Stone Tool Technology In The Middle Chesapeake (2018)
  81. A "Little Alsace" for the Lone Star State: Alsatian Migration and the Construction of Place, Narrative, and Identity on the Texas Frontier (2018)
  82. Little Giants of the Seas: Situated Globalities on the Small Islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1638-1880 (2023)
  83. Little Glass Footprints: A Glimpse into the Beads of Fort St. Joseph (2023)
  84. Little Guns on the Big Elk: Discovering Fort Hollingsworth (1813-1815), Elkton, Maryland (2013)
  85. "Little necessaries or comforts": Enslaved Laborers’ Access to Markets within the Anglophone Caribbean (2016)
  86. The Little Things (2017)
  87. The Little Town That Could: The Railroad in Sandpoint, Idaho 1880-1935 (2015)
  88. Lives Wrought in the Furnace: New Research on the Labor Force at Catoctin Furnace (2015)
  89. The Living and the Dead: The Icelandic Household From Early Medieval to Historic Times. (2020)
  90. Living and Working in the Heart of Seattle: An Archaeological Examination of an Early-Twentieth Century Site in the Cascade Neighborhood (2018)
  91. Living by Gichigami (Lake Superior): A Collaborative Approach to Managing Shoreline Sites in Miskwaabikang (Red Cliff, Wisconsin, USA) (2023)
  92. Living in an Old City: Practice and theory in urban heritage (2016)
  93. Living In Danger: The Spatial Practices In The Pre-industrial Pitch Mill Site In Early Modern Oulu, Finland (2017)
  94. Living in the North End: Lessons in Urban Archaeology (2014)
  95. Living in Work Spaces and Working in Living Spaces: Intersections of Labor and Domesticity in the Enslaved Community at Montpelier. (2015)
  96. Living landscapes as transitions through time: the making of social identity in the north Atlantic isles (2014)
  97. Living Museums in the Sea Model: Protecting Underwater Cultural Heritage while Facilitating Connection to Local Communities (2023)
  98. Living Museums in the Sea: Learning from the Past, Looking towards the Future (2019)
  99. Living Museums of the Sea in the Dominican Republic: Bridging the Gap Between Cultural and Biological Resources (2013)
  100. Living on the Edge: The German Ridge Heritage Project in Hoosier National Forest  (2013)