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. Old Mobile: The Internal Structure of An Early 18th-Century French Colonial Town (2018)
  2. Old Pots on New Plates: Understanding Ancient Vases on 19th Century Transfer-Printed Ceramics (2013)
  3. "The Old Powder Horn": The Many Forgotten Forms and Functions of One of Williamsburg’s Oldest Public Buildings (2023)
  4. Old Questions, New Direction: Research at Ash Lawn-Highland (2016)
  5. Old Records and New Tools: Using Historic Land Records to Structure Archaeological Survey and Historic Site Management on the Siuslaw National Forest (2015)
  6. Old Wood: Testing of the Transcontinental Railroad's Woody Legacy (2019)
  7. Old World Models in a New Land: James Logan’s Landscape Design at Stenton (2014)
  8. "Old" Collections, New Narrative: Rethinking the Native Past through Archaeological Collections from Eastern Long Island. (2016)
  9. Olive Jars, Chimney Tiles, and Smoking Pipes, oh my! The Excavation of Dusty File Cabinets and Bags of Artifacts Can Breathe New Life into the Collections of Colonial Brunswick Town (2022)
  10. On Cudjo’s Pipe: Smoking Dialogs in Diasporic Space (2015)
  11. On Dangerous Ground: Documenting the Undocumented Migration Project 2009-2014 (2015)
  12. "On Examining the Records of the Town we find an Omiſsion": Using Historical GIS (hGIS) in Conjunction with Archaeolgoical Excavation to Document Property Histories and Understand Changing Waterlines in Alexandria, Virginia. (2020)
  13. On Finding Smoke Town, a Late-eighteenth, to Mid-nineteenth Century, Rural Free Black Community Populated, in Circa 1791, by some of the 452 Manumitted Slaves of Robert Carter III. (2018)
  14. On Her Majesty's Service: Revisiting Ontario's Parliament Buildings (2016)
  15. On Ideal and Real Ships: Shipbuilding Treatises c.1570 - 1620 C.E. and the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck (2018)
  16. On Indigeneity: Are Greenham Women Indigenous to Greenham Common (2013)
  17. On Making Waves and the Trickier Project of Surfing Them, Inside and Out of Academia (2015)
  18. On Perception versus Reality. Clotilda? (2019)
  19. On Presidential Land: Archaeology of Roosevelt’s Neighbors, Tenants, and Workers (2020)
  20. On Seattle’s Edge: A Native American Refuge on the Late Nineteenth Century Waterfront (2015)
  21. ‘On the Apparitions of Drowned Men’: Unnatural Death, Folklore, and Bioarchaeology at Haffjarðarey, Western Iceland. (2019)
  22. On the Banks Opposite of Matamoros: Using Modern Archeological Techniques to Understand and Manage the Opening Battles of the U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848 (2016)
  23. On the Beaten Path: Modeling Logistics During the Second Seminole War (2018)
  24. On the Block: the Dynamics of Social Practice in a 19th-century Working Class Urban Landscape in Boston, Massachusetts (2014)
  25. On the Care and Feeding of Archaeologists: The View from the Archives (2020)
  26. On The Margins Of The Indian Sea Trade. (2023)
  27. On the Offensive: The Small Arms and Artillery of Monterrey Shipwreck A (2015)
  28. On the Outskirts of Town: Race, Liminality, and the Social Landscape at Parting Ways, 1700 to 1830 (2014)
  29. On the Periphery of the New World: The Beeswax Wreck Project (2015)
  30. On The Rim Of The Southern Cause: Quaker Potters In The Confederate Capital (2015)
  31. On the Road and In Place: A Material History of the New Buffalo Commune, NM (2022)
  32. "on the same River where the Dutch have built a wretched redoubt": Space, Place and the Creation of the Southern Border of New France in the Lake Champlain Richelieu River Valley. (2023)
  33. On the Verge: A Pocket Watch from Queen Anne’s Revenge (2018)
  34. On the Waterfront: Archaeological Investigations along the Delaware River in Philadelphia (2016)
  35. On Writing The Past Backwards (2020)
  36. On- and Off-Reservation Life: A Multi-scalar Study of Indigenous Villages on the Northern Plains (2022)
  37. "The Once Great Plantation is Now a Wilderness" Investigations at the Josiah Henson SIte, Montgomery County, Maryland (2015)
  38. One Artifact, Multiple Interpretations: Postcolonial Archaeology and the Analysis of Chinese Coins (2015)
  39. One by Land, Two by Sea: Differentiating Learning Levels in Archaeology Education Programs (2020)
  40. One House, Many Homes: Examining the Upton Mansion of West Baltimore (2022)
  41. One if by Land, Two if by Sea: Community-based Archaeology at Fort Mose (2022)
  42. One Ship, Two Ships, Same Ship, New Ship: Investigation and Identification of Ship Structure Associated with Emanuel Point II (2020)
  43. The Ongoing Battle of Ewa Plain, Hawaii: Resurrection of a Lost Battlefield (2016)
  44. The Ongoing Quest for the Wreck of the Griffon (2017)
  45. Online Programs About Archaeology At The National Arts Club (2021)
  46. Only Wind and Dust: Exploratory Archival and Survey Research at the Heart Mountain Root Cellars (2018)
  47. The Ontological Approach: Applying Social Theory to Physically Manifested Culture (2019)
  48. Open Science, Core Facilities, and Archaeology (2015)
  49. Open-Source Approaches to Documenting and Sharing Historical Cemeteries (2023)
  50. Operation Crossroads in Perspective (2020)
  51. Operation D-Day Mapping Expedition (2016)
  52. Oral History and the Archaeology of a Black Texas Farmstead, c. 1871-1905 (2013)
  53. Ordinary Histories of People and Place: Inequality, Belonging, and Community Collaboration in Northern Belize (2021)
  54. Organization, Tracking, And Metadata: Bar Coding For Collections Management (2018)
  55. Oriental Ceramics and Chinese Porcelain from a Portuguese Indiamen – the presumable Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (Tagus River, Portugal) (2013)
  56. Origins and Construction Techniques of Historic Flat-Backed Canteens (2016)
  57. The Origins of Food Inequality in the US South: Intersecting the Past, Present, and Future (2022)
  58. The Origins of the Caribbean ‘Diaspora’: Archaeological Signatures of Forced Transfer of Indigenous Peoples in the Early Colonial Caribbean (2018)
  59. Ornamental Origins: Philadelphia Manufactured Ceramics With Engine-Turned Decoration (2018)
  60. Ornaments as Indicators of Social Changes in Northeastern Taiwan before and after the European Colonial Period (2021)
  61. Orphaned Collections and The Curation Crisis in the Time of COVID-19 (2022)
  62. Osteobiographies of British Prisoners from the Old Convict Burial Ground on Watford Island, Bermuda (2020)
  63. Osteobiographies of Mrs. Ann (née Crusoe) and Reverend Stephen H. Gloucester, Abolitionists of Philadelphia (2022)
  64. The Osteobiography of Philadelphia’s Forgotten Abolitionist: Reverend Stephen H. Gloucester (1802-1850) (2018)
  65. The Other End of the Chain: Viewing the Poplar Forest Landscape from an Enslaved Perspective (2014)
  66. The Other Half of the Planet: The idea of the Pacific World in Historical Archaeology (2017)
  67. "Our Girls" in "the White City:" Race, Place, Gender, and Chicago's Red Summer of 1919 (2021)
  68. "Our Silence Will Be More Powerful Than Words Could Be": The Haymarket Martyrs Monument and Commemorative Authority (2017)
  69. Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Contemporary Archaeology of Illegal Forest Dumping in Quebec (Canada) (2023)
  70. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Recovering Three Cemeteries From the Outer Boroughs (2018)
  71. Out of the Box: Thinking of Cemeteries as Collections Storage Facilities (2018)
  72. Out of the Dirt and Into the House: Archaeology and Decorative Arts Working Together (2017)
  73. Out of the shadows…’: Examining Historic-Period Indian-made Ceramics Using Subtypological Analysis (2014)
  74. Out of the Woodwork: The Graffiti of the Pershing Launch Site at Green River, Utah (2014)
  75. Out on the Porch: Evidence of Play on Idaho’s Frontier (2015)
  76. Outback shopping: book-keeping records and consumption behaviour (2013)
  77. Outdated Outreach? Responding to Public Critiques of 21st-Century Online Community Engagement (2017)
  78. Outliers: Looking at Human Behavior Patterns through Vesselization (Or A Journey Through Legacy Data) (2021)
  79. Outreaching from the Gulf: Video Documentation of the Oil Spill Impacts on Deepwater Shipwrecks (2015)
  80. Outside of the Reach of the Mission Bell: Tongva Ritual Practice on San Clemente Island (2018)
  81. Outside the Fort: Investigations at a Kickapoo Village Adjacent to Fort Ouiatenon, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (2014)
  82. Outside The Mission Walls: The Complexities Of Compound Concepcion (2022)
  83. The Outskirts of the City: Swedish Roma life narratives and camp sites – Co-creative approaches to excavating a hidden cultural heritage (2016)
  84. Over against the Sign of the black Horse: Landmarks and wayfinding in early eighteenth-century New York City (2014)
  85. ‘Over The Hill’. A Stratified Approach To The Archaeology Of The Donner Pass Route Through The Sierra Nevada. (2020)
  86. Overcoming the Ambiguity of a Rock Pile: Their Examination and Interpretation in Cultural Resource Management Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2016)
  87. Overcoming the Silence: Uncomfortable Racial History, Dissonant Heritage, and Public Archaeology at Virginia’s Contested Sites (2016)
  88. Overlapping and Underexplored Histories: The Convergence of Settler Colonial and Carceral Infrastructures (2023)
  89. An Overview of 2012-2016 Research Relating to the Russian-American Company Ship NEVA and Potential 1813 Shipwreck Survivor Camp, Alaska (2017)
  90. Overview of Anémone wreck project 2015-2019 (Les Saintes Guadeloupe French West Indies) (2021)
  91. An Overview Of The 2021 Field Season At Fort Mose In St. Augustine, Florida. (2022)
  92. An Overview of the Combined Survey Formal (CSF) (Integrated, Geological, Near-Surface Geophysical, Soil, and Plant pXRF Archaeogeochemical Surveys) Survey System and How it has been Used Successfully on Site-Specific Projects in Terrestrial Archaeology. (2020)
  93. Overview of the Current Projects at CRL (2020)
  94. Overview of the evolution of a city block in Fort-de-France (Martinique, France) (2014)
  95. An Overview of the Historic Utilization of Caves in Florida (2013)
  96. Overwhelmed with Possibilities: A Model for Urban Heritage Tourism Development (2015)
  97. 'Owing to the Backwardness of the Season’:Assessing the Exploratory Mining Process on Isle Royale (2021)
  98. ‘Own It!’ Reflections On The Value Of Indigenous Archaeological Ethnography As Community Engagement (2018)
  99. Oyster Exploitation and Environmental Reconstruction in Historic Colonial Williamsburg (2016)
  100. The Oyster Metropolis Of North Carolina: An Archaeological Investigation Of A Pamlico River Shipwreck (2022)