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. New Methods for New Materials: Contemporary Archaeology and Coastal Plastic Pollution (2023)
  2. The New Normal: Seeking Household Experiences of Inter-war Public Housing (2017)
  3. New Objects, Old Trade: 19th-and 20th-century European Ceramics and Glass in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2015)
  4. New Opportunities for Students in Industrial Archaeology and Industrial Heritage (2014)
  5. New Orleans and the Long Nineteenth Century: The View from Faubourg Tremé. (2018)
  6. New Perspectives on Human-Plant Histories in Delaware: Acheobotanical Data from the Route 301 Mega Project. (2016)
  7. New Perspectives on Smith’s Map of the Chesapeake (2018)
  8. New Research on the "Old Colony": Excavations in Downtown Plymouth (2020)
  9. New Smyrna Celebrates: Planning, Partnerships, and Public Participation in Local Heritage (2019)
  10. A New Survey of Plant Foods in Post-medieval Ireland: Evidence from Archaeobotany (2023)
  11. New Survey Visualization: Merging Photogrammetric Textures into A Multi-beam Bathymetry 3D Map. (2019)
  12. "New Technologies": Remote Sensing Tools And Techniques In Italian Underwater Archaeology (2015)
  13. New Tools for a new Frontier: The Use of Underwater Visualization Tools in Cenotes (2014)
  14. New World Families: Building Identity in Transatlantic Mortuary Contexts (2013)
  15. The New York City Archaeology Repository: the Van Cortlandt Collection (2016)
  16. The New York District’s Four Shipwrecks Monitoring Program (2022)
  17. The New York Irish: Fashioning urban identities in 19th-century New York City (2014)
  18. The Newport Medieval Ship in Context: The Life and Times of a 15th Century Merchant Vessel Trading in Western Europe (2015)
  19. The Next 50 Years of Archaeology Underwater (2017)
  20. Next Generation of Explorers: Training Submerged Terrestrial Archaeologists (2023)
  21. #NHPA50: A Golden Anniversary in a Diamond Year (2016)
  22. Nineteenth Century Domestic and Industrial Landscapes within Military Installations on the Panhandle of Florida (2018)
  23. Nineteenth Century Homesteads in Wyoming and Montana and a comparison to Mongolian "Homesteads" on the Russian Mongolian Border. (2016)
  24. Nineteenth Century Maya Refugees and the Reoccupation of Tikal, Guatemala (2015)
  25. Nineteenth Century Whaleboats: From commercial technology to essential Royal Naval craft (2020)
  26. Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Economics and Lacandon Maya Culture Change (2018)
  27. Nkili Nko 'o, An Unknown Actor In The Resistance To German Colonization And The Struggle For Freedom Of Local Populations In Southern Cameroon (Bulu country). (2022)
  28. NMV: A Number of Marked Vessels from Colonial Harvard College (2014)
  29. "No (repeat no) funds will be available to Traditions Committee:" A Case Study in Memorialization Logistics (2020)
  30. ‘no bastan los indios’ – the Chapel of Mission San Juan de Capistrano (2013)
  31. No Direction Home; Refining the Date of Occupation at Tikal’s 19th Century Refugee Village. (2016)
  32. No Fresh Water Except That Furnished by the Rains: Cisterns in Key West, Florida (2013)
  33. No Longer "Playin’ the Lady": Examining Black Women’s Consumption at the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead (2017)
  34. "No lovlier sight": Tracing the Post-Emancipation Lime Industry on Montserrat and Dominica (2017)
  35. No questions for the Blacks: Accounting for the languor of Afro-Panamanian Historical Archaeology (2014)
  36. "No somos invisibles": Confronting Colonial Legacies of Racism in Narratives of Afro-Peruvian Cultural Heritage (2018)
  37. No Way Back from Here: Preliminary Results of the Monterrey Shipwreck Project (2015)
  38. A Noble Crossing: The History and Archaeology of the Nobles Ferry West Site in Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine (2023)
  39. Nobody’s Stooge: Matron Hicks and the Hyde Park Barracks Destitute Asylum (2014)
  40. Non-Invasive Documentation of Burial Mounds and Historic Earthworks from the Dakota Heartland: A Combined Approach Utilizing LiDAR and Shallow Subsurface Geophysical Methods. (2015)
  41. Non-Reservation Reservation Era Post-Contact Archeology (2018)
  42. The Normandy stoneware kilns: elements for a typology (14th-20th century) (2014)
  43. The Normans Bay Wreck Diver Trail (2013)
  44. A North Shore Homeland: The Archaeological Landscape of the Ojibwe Village at Grand Portage, Minnesota. (2018)
  45. The Northeast Woodlands Fur Trade and Indigenous ‘Economies of Affect’ (2013)
  46. The Northern Inland Trade Route, from the Saguenay to the Ottawa: Building an Hypothesis (2014)
  47. Nostalgia and Heritage in the Carousel City: Community Identity and Creative Destruction (2018)
  48. Not All Archaeology is Equal: Public Archaeology and the Internet (2013)
  49. Not all its cracked up to be: The variety of roles of the NAS Training Programme in underwater archaeology (2013)
  50. "Not By Angels": Religious Place-Making in the Sonoran Desert (2015)
  51. Not Dead Yet: The Surviving Voice of Wooden Shipbuilding (2015)
  52. Not Just Fun and Games: Hacking Archaeology Education (2016)
  53. Not Just Your Average Grandparents’ Attic Full Of Stuff: Morristown National Historical Parks 87 Years Of Archaeological Finds! (2021)
  54. Not on an Even Keel: An Archeological Investigation and Interpretation of the Structural Remains of HMS Fowey (1748). (2015)
  55. Not Quite Just "Point and Click:" Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Photogrammetry as Aids to Coastal Heritage Monitoring (2023)
  56. "Not so strange farmers": Rural displacement, colonial agriculture, and economic precariousness in Siin during the 20th century (2013)
  57. "a [not so] small, but [highly] convenient House of Brick": The St. Paul's Parsonage, Hollywood, South Carolina (2016)
  58. "Not Unmindful of the Unfortunate": Giving Voice to the Forgotten Through Archaeology at the Orange Valley Slave Hospital (2019)
  59. Not Your Average Pine Box: A Glimpse Into 19th Century Coffin Wood From The First Presbyterian Church In Kensington (2022)
  60. "…nothing else of great artifactual value" or "…found nothing on the site at all": What remains of an eighteenth century colonial shipwreck in Biscayne National Park? (2016)
  61. Notification Is Not Consultation: Ethical Practices in Community and Indigenous Archaeology (2016)
  62. Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, a late 17th century Wendat mission in the Quebec city area (2014)
  63. "A Novelist-Gardener": Masculinity and Illness in Progressive Era California (2016)
  64. Now You See It, Now You Don’t (2020)
  65. The NPS Search for Guerrero: Exploration and Partnerships (2018)
  66. Nuestra Señora de Encarnación: Lost Ship of the 1681 Tierra Firme Fleet (2020)
  67. Nyugodjék Békében: Expressions of Identity Change in Sacred Heart Hungarian Cemetery, South Bend IN (2015)
  68. Nålbinding Textiles from Vasa in a Wider Context (2020)
  69. O is for Opium: Offering More than Education at the Abiel Smith School (2018)
  70. “O What a Happy Meeting it Was!” Women, Alcohol, and Power in the Civil War Era (2014)
  71. Oak and Bluestone: Resource Extraction, Agriculture, and Economy in the Catskills (2020)
  72. The Oak Forest Institution-Cook County’s 20th Century Poor Farm (2018)
  73. Oak, Steel, and Men: The History of USS Constitution through Artifact Biographies (2022)
  74. Object Entanglements in the Connecticut River Valley (2016)
  75. Objects and Voices: Conversations about artifacts, memory, and meaning with the former residents of Timbuctoo, NJ (2015)
  76. Objects past, objects present: materials, resistance and memory from the Le Morne Old Cemetery, Mauritius (2015)
  77. Objects, Collections, Texts, Time: A Close Reading of a 19th-century "Pilgrim Box" (2022)
  78. Obligations and Opportunities of Old Collections, a Boston Perspective (2015)
  79. Ocean Literacy on the Law of Cultural Heritage (2021)
  80. Oceanographic Processes Relating to the Regional Variation of Shipwreck Preservation (2020)
  81. The Oconee River Wreck: The Discovery and Preservation of a Georgia Flatboat Timber (2020)
  82. Of beauty and utility in Montreal: Changing patterns in the New France ceramic market (2014)
  83. Of Bugs and Men: Involuntary Interactions at the Intendant’s Palace site (CeEt-30), Québec City (2014)
  84. Of Capitalism and Crabs: Understanding and Challenging the Dynamics of Preservation in Charm City (2020)
  85. Of crowns and stars and fleurs-de-lis: Politics and Tobacco Pipes in the colonial Chesapeake (2014)
  86. Of Grave Concern: Macro Threats to Inland Historic African-American Burials and Challenges for Northeast Florida (2022)
  87. Of Monks and Mothers: Examining Privilege, Parenting, and Best Laid Plans (2020)
  88. Of Pirates and Pilots: The Impact of Climate on Illicit and Survival Behaviour on the Fringes of Global Society (2019)
  89. "Of Use and Ornament": Completing the First Phase of Landscape Restoration at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2022)
  90. Of Water and War: Examining the Intersection of Desalination Technologies and Military Strategy on Wake Atoll During World War II (2018)
  91. Offers You Can’t Refuse: An Overview Of DPAA’s Strategic Partnerships Initiative (2017)
  92. An Officer and a Gentleman? Telling the story of Captain Rábago and the Spanish Colonial Site of Presidio San Sabá through Archaeology and History (2013)
  93. The Officers’ Barracks and Current Archaeological Investigations at Fort Haldimand, Carleton Island, New York (2014)
  94. "Oh Freedom Over Me:" Space, Agency, and Identity at Elam Baptist Church in Ruthville, Virginia (2015)
  95. Oil and Shipwrecks: An Overview Of Sites Selected For The Deepwater Shipwrecks And Oil Spill Impacts Project (2015)
  96. An ‘Old Admiralty Longshank’ Anchor from Admiralty Bay, Washington: The HMS Chatham’s Lost Anchor? (2015)
  97. "Old Al's Going To Get It," At Least For A While: Recent Riverine Archaeology in Arkansas (2015)
  98. Old Collections, New Creations: Updates from a Mayflower Family Home (2020)
  99. "Old Fortunes, New Fortunes, Lost Fortunes" Utilizing a Forgotten Assemblage to Help Reconstruct Betty Washington and Fielding Lewis’s Dining Room (and So Much More) (2015)
  100. Old Meets New: Blending IOS Smartphone Technologies with Citizen Science to Record and Monitor Indigenous Site Loss in Coastal Maine (2023)