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. The Muskegon Shipwreck in Lake Michigan: Archaeological Applications and Modeling Three-dimensional Sonar Sector Scan Data for Identification, Analysis and In Situ Site Management (2014)
  2. Musket Balls as Fish Net Sinkers: A Biographical Analysis of Material Reuse from the 18th-Century British Virgin Islands (2023)
  3. Musée national Togo et gestion du patrimoine archéologique national (2014)
  4. My Collegial Interactions With Mary Beaudry (2022)
  5. My Father's Things (2013)
  6. Mysterious Polychrome Earthenware at Fortress Louisbourg (2014)
  7. The Mysterious Skull of Count von Donop: Using Forensic Science to Resolve a Historical Case of Mistaken Identity (2022)
  8. The Mystery of the Red Ceramics: Understanding a Unique Assemblage of Coarse Earthenware c.1680-1740 (2014)
  9. Mystery Rocket Recovered From Lake Ontario: Avro Arrow Or Other Cold War Relic? (2020)
  10. Mystery Ships? Follow the Blue-and-White Trail (2015)
  11. Mystery Shipwrecks of the Great Barrier Reef: Copper Alloy Analyses (2021)
  12. The Mystic Schooners of the 20th Century: The Legacy of the Last Sailing Merchant Vessels (2016)
  13. Mythical Beasts, Lotus Blossoms, and Bamboo: Examining the evidence for Chinese Porcelain in Virginia (2013)
  14. Mythology, Battlefields, Shipwrecks, and Forts: The U.S. Army and the settlement of the Oregon Territory (2015)
  15. Nails of Old Mission (2018)
  16. 'The Naked Carcase': The Long, Slow Death of Sheriff Hutton Castle 1590-1890 (2013)
  17. Naming the Unnamed: Identifying Colonial Williamsburg's Early Black Archaeologists (2021)
  18. Narratives of Bravery in Fields of Fire at Wood Lake Battlefield (2020)
  19. Narratives of Change over Time at Strawbery Banke (2022)
  20. Narratives of the Past: Positioning Modern Memory in a Historic Context (2013)
  21. Narrowing the Search for Late Pleistocene-Aged Submerged Sites on Oregon's Continental Shelf (2023)
  22. NAS Initiatives in North Carolina and Virginia (2016)
  23. Nasty Stuff In Historical Archaeology (2019)
  24. The Nate Harrison Historical Archaeology Project: Material, Methodological, and Theoretical Overviews (2018)
  25. Nathan Harrison: A Case Study in African American Masculinity (2022)
  26. Nathan Harrison: Adaptations of Identity and Masculinity on Palomar Mountain (2021)
  27. The National Historic Preservation Act and the NPS System-Wide Archeological Inventory Program (2016)
  28. The National Historic Preservation Act on the Outer Continental Shelf: Challenges and Advances in the Stewardship of Submerged Maritime Heritage Resources (2016)
  29. National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Archeology Contributions: Successes (and Shortcomings) in Unexpected Situations at Two Historic Sites of the George Washington Memorial Parkway (2016)
  30. National Parks Service and the Slave Wrecks Project (2017)
  31. Native American Environmental Interactions During Warfare: A Case Study of 17th Century New England (2014)
  32. Native American Lead Mining on the Volatile Frontier of the Expanding American Empire. (2020)
  33. Native Interactions and Economic Exchange: A Re-evaluation of Plymouth Colony Collections (2016)
  34. Native Mortuary Customs and Knowledge Networks in 18th-Century Massachusetts (2013)
  35. Native Songs: Music and Mount Vernon’s Enslaved Community (2020)
  36. Native Textiles Of The Chesapeake (2023)
  37. Natives’ reactions to the European presence along the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (2014)
  38. Natural Child at Nurse: migrant mothers and their children in New York’s almshouse system. (2020)
  39. The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (2020)
  40. Nautical Archaeology from your couch: The NAS E'Learning Programme (2013)
  41. Nautical Archaeology Stewardship - The Experience Of 30 Years Of Engaging The Public (2020)
  42. Nautical Graffiti of the Chapel of the Casa da Torre, Bahia, Brazil (2020)
  43. Naval architecture of the Anémone Wreck (Saintes – Guadeloupe) (2023)
  44. Naval Battlefield Reconstruction as a Predictive Model for Deep Water Remote Sensing:Search for Bluefields and U-576 (2015)
  45. The naval dockyard at Praça D. Luís I, Lisbon (Portugal): an insight into a structure from the Age of Discovery (2013)
  46. Navigable Waterways as Plantation Landscapes (2020)
  47. Navigating Freedom: Examining the Impact of Emancipation on the African American community in Orange County, Virginia (2015)
  48. Navigating the Narrative: Ceramics from Ocean Floor to Museum Door. (2013)
  49. Navigating the Temple of Doom: Shipboard Hazards for Archaeologists (2014)
  50. Navigating the “’thorny theoretical thicket’”: Ethical codes and archaeological models under NAGPRA (2014)
  51. Navigational Instruments found on the Storm Wreck (2016)
  52. The Navy’s Ultimate Piston-Engine Fighter: An Investigation of a Submerged Experimental Bearcat (2019)
  53. "…near the side of an Indian field commonly known as the Pipemaker’s field": Reanalyzing the Nomini Plantation Midden Assemblage (2019)
  54. Near-Surface Geophysical Survey of a 17th/18th century trading factory at LaSoye, Dominica. (2023)
  55. Nearly Gone but Not Forgotten: Reclaiming African American Heritage in Rural Southern Cemeteries (2022)
  56. The Necessity of Archaeology in Creating Public Interpretations: Bringing a Global Perspective to Historic Charleston, SC (2023)
  57. Neglected History: The Filipino Community of Early 20th Century Annapolis (2022)
  58. Negotiating And Creating Tension And Change Through Religion, Mortuary Practices, and Burial Sites Within African-Descent And Moravian Communities In The Caribbean (2018)
  59. Negotiating Changing Chesapeake Identities:  Indigenous Women’s Influence on the Transformation of Seventeenth-Century English Immigrant Culture in Maryland (2013)
  60. Negotiating Contact: Examing the Coastal Trade Network of the Labrador Inuit (2014)
  61. Negotiating internment: craftwork and prisoner experience, Ireland 1916-1923 (2014)
  62. Negotiating the transformation of a workspace into a classroom and museum at James Madison's Montpelier (2013)
  63. Negotiating Transnational Identity in Post-Revolutionary Hispaniola (2014)
  64. The Negotiation of Class, Rank and Authority within U. S. Army Commissioned Officers: Examples from Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon, 1856-1866. (2016)
  65. Negotiation, Landscape and Material Use: Agency Expression in Aurora, Nevada (2017)
  66. Neither Contact nor Colonial: Seneca Iroquois Local Political Economies, 1675-1754 (2016)
  67. Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Environmental Impacts of Dietary Preferences at Two 17th-Century Maryland Households (2018)
  68. A Neoria on the French Riviera: The Beginnings of Experimental Maritime Archaeology on the Coast of Southern France (2023)
  69. Nervousnous and Negotiation on a Plantation Landscape (2013)
  70. Nets of Memory (Líonta na Cuimhne): Islander Mediations of Remembrance and Belonging (2018)
  71. Neutral Ground and Contraband: Trade and Identity on the Frontier (2017)
  72. The New Acadia Project: Public Archaeology and Mythistory in Acadiana (2014)
  73. "A New and Useful Burial Crypt:" The American Community Mausoleum (2016)
  74. A New Attitude: Balancing Site Confidentiality and Public Interpretation at Delaware State Parks (2018)
  75. The New Battle: Fort Rice vs the Environment (2022)
  76. New Boxes, Old Tricks: Reexamining Previously Excavated Collections from Pensacola’s Red Light District (2014)
  77. New Ceramic Economic Indices for the Historical Archaeology of the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries (2018)
  78. New Collaborations, New Perspectives, New Questions: Sweden and the Modern Atlantic World (2014)
  79. New Data from the Great Meadows: Geophysical and Archaeological Investigations at Fort Necessity National Battlefield (2016)
  80. New Developments on the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck Project: Ongoing Investigations of a Vessel from Luna’s 1559 Fleet (2016)
  81. New Developments on the Gnalic Project. (2015)
  82. New Directions for Horse Hardware at James Madison’s Montpelier (2018)
  83. New Directions for Pollen and Phytolith Analysis in Historic New England (2022)
  84. New Directions for Underwater Archaeology in Virginia (2018)
  85. New Echota - Capital of the Cherokee Nation in Georgia and a TCP (2019)
  86. New Environmental Proxy Data from Little Salt Spring, FL (2014)
  87. The New Epidemic: The Past as Fun, Fame, and Profit on YouTube (2022)
  88. New Geophysical Information About The Wreck Of Montana (1884): The Largest, All-Wood, Missouri River Steamboat (2019)
  89. The New Historia: A Feminist Historical Recovery Project (2023)
  90. New Insights At The Battle Of Gettysburg (2023)
  91. New Investigations into the Radford Wreck: Interpreting a Candidate for Cape Lookout’s Lost Whaler (2023)
  92. The New Kent Island? Using Pipes to Analyze Anglo-Susquehannock Relationships along the Potomac River (2023)
  93. A New Kind of Frontier: Hispanic Homesteaders in Eastern New Mexico (2017)
  94. New Life for Old Fur Trade Data: Asking New Questions of the 1974 Atlas of Canada Posts of the Canadian Fur Trade Map. (2016)
  95. New Light on Historic Fort Wayne, Detroit: The Springwells Neighborhood and the War of 1812 (2018)
  96. New Management Strategies for Submerged Cultural Resources in the U.S. National Park Service. (2015)
  97. A New Maritime Archaeological Landscape Formation Model (2013)
  98. The New Mary Rose Museum -  From Vision to Reality (2013)
  99. A new method of rapidly surveying submerged archaeological sites. (2013)
  100. New Methods for Comparing Consumer Behavior across Space and Time in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2016)