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.

Presenters can access and upload their presentations for FREE. If you would like to upload your presentation, please click here to find out more.

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)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 3,601-3,700 of 6,639)

  • Documents (6,639)
  1. Living on the Landlord’s Island: Creation of the Island Home and Improvement in 18th to 20th Century Irish Residential Housing (2017)
  2. Living Pictures: Photographs, Reenactment and Colonialism (2014)
  3. Living Plants and Animals as an Archaeological Resource (2022)
  4. Living Tactically: Postmortem Agency and Individual Identity in Institutional Burials (2017)
  5. Living the Not So Sweet Life: Archaeological Investigations in the Chatsworth Plantation Quarters (2015)
  6. Living Under Threat: A Transnational Look at Safety, Security, and Cultural Memory in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology (2020)
  7. The Living Village: Time Slices and Residential Shifts, 1800-1960, Inishark, Ireland (2013)
  8. Living Waters, Living History: Investigating a 20th Century Mikveh at Puddle Dock (2015)
  9. Living with Huacas: Reflecting on Community Relationships with the Archaeological site of Tumshukaiko (2021)
  10. Living with the Dead: Mortuary Patterning at Halifax’s Old Burying Ground during the American Revolution (2023)
  11. Living Within and Without the Borders of Others: An Historic Period First Nations Hunting/Trapping Site in Northern Alberta (2015)
  12. A Loam in the Darkness: Investigations at Half Mile Rise Sink (2020)
  13. Local and Global Ecologies: Macrobotanical Evidence from Bartram’s Garden (2023)
  14. Local Tradition or Response to Hard Times? 20th-Century Urban Foodways in Toledo, Ohio (2018)
  15. Local ‘Patterns’, Global Currents – The Changing Face of Pilgrimage Traditions in Rural Western Ireland, c. 1800-Present (2018)
  16. Local, regional and global connections of San Salvador de Kelang, a Castilian enclave in northern Taiwan (2014)
  17. The Localization of Taphonomy: The Impacts of Physical Environments and the Memorialization Practices of Local Populations on Combat Loss Archaeological Sites (2017)
  18. Localized Adaptations in Cloth Production at Bulow Plantation, Florida (2019)
  19. Locked Up: Archaeological Indications of Immigrant Experience on New York's Canals (2017)
  20. Locking the Tar: Archaeological and Historical Analysis of a Derelict Antebellum River Lock in Greenville, North Carolina (2021)
  21. Locking Through: Sailing Canallers and the Evolution of Maritime Industrial Landscapes in the Great Lakes (2018)
  22. Logan City, Nevada: Excavation of an 1860s Mining Camp (2016)
  23. Long Dead But Not Forgotten: The Hidden Details of Rural Family Cemeteries (2022)
  24. The Long Wait: Revisiting Treatments (2022)
  25. Long Walks and Longer Waits: Educational Injustice in Boston Schools (2018)
  26. Long-term Impact of Settlement Location on Economic Status: A Geospatial Analysis in Skagafjörður, Iceland (2021)
  27. Longrow Laborer Houses at the Estate Lower Bethlehem Factory, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2020)
  28. A Look at the Everyday: Early Estate Life at Glen Eyrie (2020)
  29. A Look At Violence In A Western Mining District (2016)
  30. A look inside: Application of macro-Computed Tomography to traditional ceramics from Galicia (Northwest Iberian) (2023)
  31. Looking at "Uniqueness:" the Importance of the Gullah Geechee in Understanding African American Behavioral Adaptations (2022)
  32. Looking at Ethnic and Ecological Issues in the Analysis of Seminole War Battlefields in Florida (2016)
  33. Looking at Fort George, Scotland, Though Metal Artifacts (2019)
  34. Looking Back to Move Forward: Urban Renewal, Salvage Archaeology, and Historical Reckoning in Alexandria, Virginia (2021)
  35. Looking Beyond the Colonial/Indigenous Foods Dichotomy: Recent Insights into Identity Formation via Communal Foodways from Mission Santa Clara de Asís. (2016)
  36. Looking Beyond the Mission: Investigating the Nineteenth Century Occupations at the San Luis De Talimali Mission Site (8LE4) (2020)
  37. Looking Beyond the Public Walkways: Introduction of Old and New Data to Expand and Enhance Interpretations of Brunswick Town and Fort Anderson (2016)
  38. Looking Eastward: Sixteenth Century Exchange Systems of the North Shore Ancestral Wendat (2014)
  39. Looking for Data in All the Right Places: Recreating the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon (2016)
  40. Looking for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (2023)
  41. Looking for the La Bahia at Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas (2018)
  42. Looking Forward Through the Past: A Re-Examination of Boston’s Archaeological Collections and Contributions (2014)
  43. Looking Through The Eyes Of The Archaeologist (2017)
  44. Looking Through the Glass: Identification and Analysis of Glass Bottles Recovered from a Campus Trash Dump (2016)
  45. The looming question of housing the workforce: early workers' housing in the Derwent Valley (2017)
  46. Looted Artifacts, Lost History (2013)
  47. Looted Delights: An Investigation of Integrity at a Looted Lumber Camp (2016)
  48. Lophelia II Project Shipwreck Component: Final Assessment and Project Analysis (2014)
  49. Loss of British Tanker Mirlo Revisited: New Considerations Regarding the Vessel's Loss of the North Carolina Coast during the First World War (2017)
  50. Loss of the USS Milwaukee (C-21): An Archaeological Study of a World War I-era U.S. Navy Disaster in Northern California (2020)
  51. Lost and Found: Identifying Ephemeral Mining Sites At Isle Royale National Park By Reconstructing Government Land Office Survey Paths In GIS (2020)
  52. Lost and Found: Using Historical Records and Archaeological Survey to Rediscover a Historic Stamp Mill (2018)
  53. Lost Angeles: A Necrogeographical Analysis of the City of Angels' Forgotten Cemeteries (2020)
  54. Lost at Sea: The Archival and Archaeological Investigation of Two Submerged F8F Bearcats (2018)
  55. Lost Buildings, Vanished Institutions: Making Sense Of Nineteenth-Century Soup Kitchens (2023)
  56. The lost cargos of Torre Santa Sabina and east-west routes in the ancient Mediterranean  (2013)
  57. The Lost Fleet of Christopher Columbus and 15th-16th Century Shipwrecks of Colonization in Hispaniola (2023)
  58. Lost in Action, Navy's Missing Training and Experimental Aircraft: A NAS Pax River Case Study (2018)
  59. Lost in the End of the World - Archaeological Evidence of an 18th Century Shipwreck in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) (2020)
  60. Lost in the Move: The Material Culture of Leaving (2014)
  61. Lost Legacy: The Search for a Descendant Community (2018)
  62. Lost Lightnin’: Moonshine in the American Southeast in the Archaeological Record (2018)
  63. The Lost Ships of Cortés Project and the Search for a 500-Year-Old Scuttled Fleet (2020)
  64. Lost to the Minefield: The Wreck of F.W. Abrams off Cape Hatteras, NC (2017)
  65. A Lot Harder Than It Looks: Conservation Of A Worst Case Scenario (2017)
  66. "Love is a Sweet Insanity": The Hidden Gender Revolutions of the 19th-Century Asylum (2020)
  67. Low Water Bankline Survey of the Rice Plantation Landscape (2016)
  68. Low-cost System for Image-Based 3D Documentation in Archaeology (2015)
  69. Lowcountry Livestock Production: Eighteenth-Century Cattle Husbandry at Drayton Hall (2017)
  70. Lowcountry Urban Landscapes in the Greater British Caribbean (2018)
  71. Lowering the Ladder and Raising the Bar: Fostering a Diverse and Inclusive Archaeology Through Public Archaeology (2023)
  72. The Loyola Habitation in French Guyana: 25 Years of Scientific Research (2020)
  73. Lubyanka's Dissonant Voices: Conflicting Heritagescapes in the Heart of Moscow (2020)
  74. Luck Plays a Vital Role in Archaeology: The Story of the Fishing Schooner Frances Geraldine (2013)
  75. Luna by Land and Sea: Public Outreach at America’s First European Settlement (2017)
  76. The Luna Expedition: An Overview from the Documents (2017)
  77. Luna the Cat: Employing Archaeology in Children’s Storytelling (2022)
  78. Lunar House: The Archaeology of Contemporary Immigration. (2013)
  79. A Luta Continua: Post-Colonial Reinterpretations of Early Colonial Contacts and their Contemporary Legacies in Mozambique (2023)
  80. The Luxury Of Cold: The Natural Ice Industry In Boca, California: 1868-1927 (2017)
  81. Luxury Taxa: An Analysis of Macrobotanical Remains from Monticello’s First Kitchen (2022)
  82. The Machault, an 18th-century French Frigate from Bayonne. Tradition and Globalisation in Ship Construction (2014)
  83. Machines and the Migrant Under-employed: the production of surplus life and labor in the Anthracite coal fields of Northeast Pennsylvania (2018)
  84. Macho and Moral: An Archaeological Investigation of Masculine Behaviors on Apple Island, Michigan. (2016)
  85. MacPherson (AhHa-21) and Cleveland (AhHb-7): Two Cases Demonstrating The Benefits and Challenges of Radiocarbon Dating on Sixteenth-Century Iroquoian Sites (2022)
  86. A Macrobotanical Analysis of a Root Cellar at the Belle Grove Enslaved Quarters (2023)
  87. Macrobotanical Evidence for Tobacco Use within Enslaved Communities: Emerging Patterns from the Middle Atlantic States. (2022)
  88. The Maddalena Archipelago Maritime Target Survey: a Collaborative Effort Towards the Enhancement of Maritime Cultural Heritage (2013)
  89. Made in America? Sourcing the Coarse Earthenwares of Chesapeake Plantations (2015)
  90. "Madly and blindly in the face of furious fire" Archaeological Survey of the Barber Wheatfield, Saratoga National Historical Park (2020)
  91. Madness, Architecture and Constraint: The role of the built environment in the mental institutions of New South Wales (2013)
  92. Maggie Ross emerges from the Sands of Russian Gulch, California (2018)
  93. Magic and Mystery on a Chesapeake Plantation (2021)
  94. Magical thinking, relational thinking, and the archaeology of the modern world (2013)
  95. Magnetic Models: Creating an Interpretive Model of Civil War Case Shot (2017)
  96. Magnetic Survey for Cortes’ Fleet in Villa Rica Bay, Mexico (2020)
  97. Magnolia Grove: A Comparative Study of Plantation Landscape and Architecture (2019)
  98. A Mahiole, a Revolutionary War Major, and a Cosmopolitan City; A Case for Southern Urban Places (2018)
  99. Mahogany and Iron: Archaeological Investigations of the Late 17th-Century Frigate Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apostal (2013)
  100. Mahogany and Sugar for Tobacco, Booze, and Salt-Pork: Consumerism and Consumption at 19th-Century Lamanai, Belize (2017)