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 • Colonialism • Slavery • Public Archaeology • Ceramics • Identity • Plantation • Shipwrecks • Material Culture

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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  • Documents (7,550)
  1. Archaeological Significance, Professional Practice, and Public Praxis, Part 2: Identity, Community Engagement, and the Significance of Archeological Sites (2014)
  2. Archaeological Survey of Tennessee's Rosenwald Schools (2018)
  3. Archaeological Survey of Tennessee's Rosenwald Schools (2015)
  4. An Archaeological Synthesis of Wells in Delaware: Alternative Mitigation for the Polk Tenant Site (2016)
  5. Archaeologically Assembling The Full Picture of the Political-Economy of Late 18th Century Colonial Trade Relations on the Margins of Empire from the Bisc-2 Shipwreck Site. (2013)
  6. Archaeologies of Antislavery Resistance (2013)
  7. Archaeologies of Conflicting Ideologies: Frederick Douglass as a Contemporary Post-Colonial Thinker (2014)
  8. Archaeologies of Disinvestment and Displacement: Documenting Detroit’s Foreclosure Crisis (2018)
  9. Archaeologies of Foodways through Butchery at Manzanar National Historic Site (2018)
  10. Archaeologies of Removal: The Adaeseños of late 18th century Spanish Texas (2014)
  11. Archaeologies of the After-lives of Slavery (Discussant Comments) (2017)
  12. Archaeologies of Value in the Modern World (2021)
  13. Archaeologists In Parks (2020)
  14. Archaeology Along San Pedro Creek, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (2022)
  15. Archaeology and Abelism : Using Disability Scholarship to Rethink Archaeological Fieldwork (2021)
  16. Archaeology and Architecture: How to restore an 18th century manor house at Melwood Parke (2016)
  17. Archaeology and Art History: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Medieval Ceramics from Iran (2023)
  18. Archaeology and Coastal Change (2020)
  19. Archaeology and Digital Heritage at the Chief Jacko Site: Landscapes of Maroons in Dominica (2023)
  20. Archaeology and Dissonant Memories of Japanese American Incarceration (2018)
  21. The Archaeology And Forgeries Department: A Novel Interdepartmental Approach For Obtaining Historically Accurate Reproductions At George Washington’s Boyhood Home (2020)
  22. Archaeology And Gardens At A WWII Japanese American Incarceration Camp In Gila River, Arizona (2016)
  23. Archaeology and History of Sea People in French West Indies (end 18th – 19th century) (2020)
  24. Archaeology and Informal Education Progams for Youth (2013)
  25. Archaeology and Interpretation at The Hermitage (2018)
  26. Archaeology and Mainstream Media: Slippery Slope or Revolution Worth Stoking? (2020)
  27. Archaeology and Offshore Development: Advancing our Archaeological Understanding through Collaboration with Industry (2017)
  28. Archaeology and Paleoethnobotany of The Indian Family Housing Site at Mission San Juan Bautista (2024)
  29. Archaeology and Preservation at the Lake George Battlefield (2015)
  30. Archaeology and Public Memory at the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Site (2016)
  31. Archaeology And Resource Management In San Antonio: A City-Wide Perspective On Recent Finds (2022)
  32. The Archaeology and Settlement History of an Early Black neighbourhood in The Ward, Toronto (2020)
  33. Archaeology and Stewardship of a City Park: The Making of the First D.C. Archaeology Month Poster (2025)
  34. Archaeology and the Battle of the Atlantic: Approaches, Methods and Results of Studying and Underwater Battlefield (2015)
  35. Archaeology and the Challenge of Storytelling at George Washington Birthplace National Monument. (2025)
  36. Archaeology and the Changing Landscape of Community in a Colonial Capital; The Banjul Heritage Project (2015)
  37. Archaeology and the Oil Spill:  Exploration of the Mississippi Barrier Islands as a result of the BP Oil spill (2013)
  38. Archaeology Arcade: Livestreaming, Archaeogaming, and Engaging the Public (2023)
  39. Archaeology as a Path to Reconciliation in Tulsa’s Historic Black Wall Street (2020)
  40. Archaeology as Medicine: Rebuilding Trust Through Community-Engaged Archaeology (2024)
  41. Archaeology at Bartram’s Garden 1975-Present. (2016)
  42. Archaeology at Iowaville, the 1765–1820 Báxoje (Ioway) Tribe Village on the Des Moines River (2013)
  43. Archaeology at Oatlands: The Past, Present and Future of Archaeology at an American Plantation (2020)
  44. Archaeology at Paoli Battlefield: Expanding the Interpretations of Conflict (2016)
  45. The Archaeology Education A Team: Public Archaeology and Public Media (2022)
  46. Archaeology for Everyone: Bensian Boldness and the Florida Public Archaeology Network (2025)
  47. Archaeology for the Masses: Presenting the Storm Wreck through Public Archaeology (2016)
  48. Archaeology Goes Underground: The Potential for Historical Archaeology in Wind Cave (2014)
  49. Archaeology in 140 Characters: The Efficacy of Social Media in Archaeological Heritage Management (2014)
  50. Archaeology in a Municipal Planning Context: The City of Kingston Archaeological Planning process (2005-2011) (2014)
  51. Archaeology in a Revolutionary Town: Multi-Temporal Heritage Narratives at the McGrath Farm, Concord, Massachusetts (2016)
  52. Archaeology in a Time of Climate Change, a Challenge for the This Generation and the Next: An Essay in Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (2022)
  53. Archaeology in our Backyards: A Household Chore as Antecedent to Community Awareness of Heritage at Risk. (2022)
  54. Archaeology in Real-time:  The Use of Social Media as Part of the Excavation of Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop and Public Armoury (2013)
  55. Archaeology in San Antonio: An Auspicious Paradigm for the Protection of Cultural Resources (2016)
  56. Archaeology In The (Political) Trenches: Lessons From Charm City (2016)
  57. Archaeology in the Arboretum: Exploring the Evidence of the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters Site on Stanford University’s Campus (2020)
  58. Archaeology in the Plantationocene (2023)
  59. Archaeology In The Waters Of The Falls Zone (2016)
  60. Archaeology Interns: Preparing Students for Successful Careers via CRM Internships (2024)
  61. Archaeology is Appealing: Collaborative Approaches to Foster Public Engagement with the Past (2016)
  62. Archaeology Non-Profits and Community Programs: The Struggle to Keep Archaeology Important in the Eyes of the Public (2019)
  63. Archaeology Of "Copper Country's" Underrepresented Communities (2019)
  64. An Archaeology of (Un)Capital: Hobos, The Great Depression, and a Small Pennsylvania Slate Quarrying Town Called Delta (2018)
  65. Archaeology of 17th Century Iberian Shipwrecks: Assessment and Comparison of Excavated,Recorded and Published Hull Remains (2019)
  66. Archaeology of a 19th Century Miner’s Boarding House Yard (2014)
  67. The Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Fishing Village (2022)
  68. The Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Fishing Village: An Afrofuturist Landscape Perspective (2024)
  69. The Archaeology of a Late 17th to early 18th Century Plantation Servant’s Quarter in Burlington County, New Jersey. (2020)
  70. Archaeology of a nautical battle: the investigation of the Italian-French brig Mercurio (2013)
  71. The archaeology of a Seattle city block from 1880s squatters, Great Northern Railroad workers, and the establishment of Pike Place Market. (2017)
  72. Archaeology of Activism (2024)
  73. An Archaeology of Aesthetics: the Socio-Economic and Ideological Elements of Coffin Plate Selection at the Spring Street Presbyterian Church (2013)
  74. An Archaeology of Agency: The James and Sophia Clemens Farm (2023)
  75. Archaeology of Agricultural Labor Exploitation and Perpetual Debt; Migrant Labor Camps of Suffolk County, New York (1943-2000) (2024)
  76. The Archaeology of an Early Resource-Extraction Industry: The Cod Fishery, 1600-1713 (2016)
  77. Archaeology of Anhaica: Soto’s First Winter Encampment (2025)
  78. The Archaeology of Art in Berlin (2015)
  79. The Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Woodlake Battlefield Minnesota (2018)
  80. An Archaeology of Belonging: A Theory and its Practice in a Colonial Situation (2013)
  81. The Archaeology of Borderlands: North Western Anatolia in the Early Ottoman Period (2015)
  82. The Archaeology of Canaan Cemetery and Post-Emancipation Burial Traditions in the Brazos Valley (2025)
  83. Archaeology of Captive African Life on the Brook Green Rice Plantation: what we know, and where we will go. (2022)
  84. An Archaeology of Care in the Bakken Oil Patch (North Dakota, USA) (2017)
  85. The Archaeology of Cassipora Creek: Exploratory Investigations of a 17th-Century Jewish Settlement in Suriname (2019)
  86. The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s Campus (2021)
  87. Archaeology of Chinese Woodchoppers and the Forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin: Exploring the Intersections of Extractive Industries, Transportation, and Labor (2015)
  88. The Archaeology of Citizenship (2013)
  89. The Archaeology of Class, Status and Authority Within Mid-19th Century U. S. Army Commissioned Officers: Examples from Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon 1856-1866 (2015)
  90. The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America: A Case Study from 18th-century Spanish Texas (2013)
  91. Archaeology of Colonialism and the lineages of Tupiniquim women in São Vicente & Rio de Janeiro during the 16-17th century: by an interdisciplinary approach (2023)
  92. Archaeology of Colonialism: the 17th Century Spanish Colony of Hoping Dao, Taiwan   (2013)
  93. An Archaeology of Community Investment: The Old Edgebrook Schoolhouse in Chicago, Illinois (2014)
  94. The Archaeology of Conquest: Employing a Trans-conquest Approach to Interpreting Processes of Resistance and Incorporation (2014)
  95. An archaeology of counter-insurgency: Spanish military trochas and reconcentration camps in Cuba (1895-1898). (2013)
  96. The Archaeology of Cowboy Island: The Santa Rosa Historic Archaeology Project (SRHAP) (2016)
  97. The archaeology of cultural interactions in French Guiana (2013)
  98. Archaeology of Disaster: The July 4, 1876 Rockdale Flood (2025)
  99. Archaeology of Domestic Spaces: Asymmetric Dependencies and Tactics of Resistance in San Basilio de Palenque. Colombia. 19th-20th Centuries. (2023)
  100. The Archaeology of Enslaved Labor: Identifying Work and Domestic Spaces in the South Yard (2016)