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. "Oysters In Every Style": Food and Commercial Sex on the New Orleans Landscape (2018)
  2. "The (Pacific North)West Is The Best:" Marley Brown's Influence Comes Full Circle (2015)
  3. Paddle to the People: Display Methods of the Lake Phelps Prehistoric Canoes (2020)
  4. Paddlewheels Ahoy! Archaeology of the Oldest Existing Steam Propulsion System (2023)
  5. Paddling Into The Past: Conserving South Carolina’s Oldest Indigenous Watercraft (2022)
  6. Paddling Through the Past- A Landscape Archaeological Survey of a Contested Waterway (2013)
  7. Padlocks As Multivalent Objects In The African Diaspora (2022)
  8. Pain and Perseverance: An Archaeological Study of the First-Aid and Ethnopharmacology of Undocumented Migration (2015)
  9. Painted Women and Patrons: Appearance and the Construction of Gender and Class Identity in the Red Light District of Ouray, Colorado. (2016)
  10. Painted, Molded, Printed, Sponged: Ceramics From Two Communities At One Site (2020)
  11. Paleoenvironmental Data From Blackwater Bay, Santa Rosa County, Florida (2018)
  12. Paleoenvironmental Dimensions of Historic Landscape Change at LaSoye, Dominica (2023)
  13. A Palimpsest of Pits and Posts: Excavations at Mission San Buena Bentura de Palica in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)
  14. Palimpsests and Practices: Preliminary Thoughts on the Landscape as a Mediator of Political and Social Meaning at Barneston, Washington (1898-1924) (2018)
  15. Palliative curation in the reluctant ruin (2013)
  16. Pandemic Archaeology: A Case Study from Michilimackinac (2021)
  17. Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic (2021)
  18. Pandemic Parallels: The Black Feminist Necropolitics of Excavating Cholera in the Time of COVID (2021)
  19. Panopticism, Pines and POWS: Applying Conflict Landscape Tools to the Archaeology of Internment (2018)
  20. Pantelleria Underwater Archaeology Project: a Post-Disciplinary Approach to Archaeological Research and Public Outreach (2014)
  21. PANYC: The Why, The Then, And The Now (2020)
  22. Paper Ships on Digital Seas (2022)
  23. Paper Tiger: Historic Newspaper Text from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Material Culture Collection (2017)
  24. Paper Title: Controller of the Narrative: Archaeology, Community Engagement, and Cultural Patrimony within The Elder Scrolls Online (2023)
  25. The Paradise of Memory: Florida's Historic Cemeteries (2018)
  26. Parallels in History: Shipwreck Salvage and Exploitation of Archaeological Resources in Florida and Aruba (2018)
  27. Parametric Seismic Profilers— Their Application To in-situ Management Of Underwater Archaeological Sites At Risk From Degradational Loss Of Shallow-buried Materials. (2021)
  28. Parasols, Picnics, and Pavillions: Feminization of the Florida Frontier (2020)
  29. Paris-Cayenne: Ceramic Availability and Use within the Plantation Context in French Guiana (2018)
  30. Parizek Brothers Shell Button Cutting Station (2016)
  31. The Parker Academy: A Place of Freedom, A Space of Resistance (2016)
  32. Parker's Revenge - a Running Battle: First Day of the Revolutionary War, Minute Man National Historical Park (2016)
  33. Parochialism the Eldonian Way: Maintaining Local Ties and Manifestations of ‘Home’. (2016)
  34. Participant Discussion: 20 minutes (2013)
  35. Participant Discussion: 20 minutes (2013)
  36. Particularal Histories of Diaspora: Historical Archaeology on the Cormandal Coast (2021)
  37. Parties at the Big House: Feasting, Alcohol, and Political Strategy at James Madison's Montpelier (2013)
  38. Partisans Versus Loyalists: Encounters With the Other in Eastern South Carolina During the American Revolution (2014)
  39. Partition Refugee Housing As Emergent Heritage (2021)
  40. Partnering for Heritage Preservation in Flagstaff, Jamaica (2016)
  41. Partnering for Public Education and the Development of an Avocational Maritime Archeological Corps in Biscayne National Park (2016)
  42. Partners in Research and Preservation for the Battle of the Atlantic: A Case Study in Programmatic Synergy (2015)
  43. Partnerships to Search for America's Missing in Kwajalein Atoll (2023)
  44. Passengers, Packages and Copper: The Steamer Pewabic and the Growth of Lake Superior’s Mining Industry (2014)
  45. Passionate Work: Communities of Care and the DU Amache Project (2017)
  46. The Past And Future Impact Of The American Battlefield Protection Program On Conflict Archaeology: A South Carolina Perspective (2016)
  47. The Past in Pixels: Exploring Heritage in Virtual Environments (2018)
  48. The past is changing – archeology, university, and the town of Oulu, Northern Finland (2022)
  49. Past Perfect in Underwater Contexts (2023)
  50. Pastoralist Connections in the South-Central Andes During the Spanish Colonial Period (2022)
  51. Pastwatch: The Roots of Historical Capitalism in the New World (2014)
  52. Patents, Peaches, and Perseverance: The Homestead-Era on the Pajarito Plateau (2020)
  53. Paternalism and Changing Perceptions of Enslaved Individuals (2020)
  54. A Path Less Traveled: An 18th-Century Historic Archaeological Context as Alternative Mitigation of the Reedy Island Cart Road Site (2016)
  55. Patience and Perseverance: Six Years of British Assaults on French Canada (2020)
  56. A Patriotic Creamer (2023)
  57. Patriots, Federalists and Masons, Politically Oriented Artifacts from the Federal Period Occupation of the Anthony Farmstead in Southeastern Massachusetts. (2020)
  58. Patterns of Aspiration, Escapism, and Solidarity on the Transferwares owned by Montpelier’s Enslaved Community (2018)
  59. Patterns Of Preservation In WWII Aircraft And Their Importance (2020)
  60. Patterns of settlement changes in colonial Cameroon: a theoretical approach. (2013)
  61. Peaches Preserved: The Archaeology and Preservation of Peachtree Plantation, St. James Santee Parish, South Carolina (2017)
  62. Peake, Wampum, or Sewant?: An Analysis of Shell Bead Terminology in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake (2020)
  63. A Peculiar Fitness: Occupation, Health, and Ability at a 20th-century Psychiatric Hospital (2021)
  64. Peeling Back an Onion: Archaeological and Geophysical Analysis of an 18th through 20th Century Landscape in Prince George’s County, Maryland (2016)
  65. Peering In and Locking Out: Windows and Doors at William Warren’s Cabin on the Minnesota Frontier (2023)
  66. Pelham Range Before the War Department: Exploring the Ethnicity and Cultural Landscape in Anniston, Alabama (2018)
  67. Pennsylvania Archaeological Shipwreck and Survey Team – A New Professional/Avocational Maritime Archaeology Organization (2017)
  68. The Pensacola Pin Series: Promoting Historic and Archaeological Sites through Free Stuff (2014)
  69. "People in this town had a hard life. We had a hard life": Creating and Re-Creating ‘Patchtown’ History in the Anthracite Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania (2015)
  70. People of Guana: Dynamic Coastlines, Mutating Methodologies, and Collaborative Science (2023)
  71. A People's Preservation Revisited (2020)
  72. People’s Collection Wales and the Great Gale of October 1859 (2014)
  73. People’s Collection Wales and the Great Gale of October 1859 (2014)
  74. Pequot Cultural Entanglement During the Pequot War: Moving beyond an "assumed, realized, or imminent expression of European domination" (2020)
  75. Perception and Conceptions: Historical Archaeology in the East Midlands and East Africa in the 1950's (2013)
  76. Perceptions of the Rural Poor: Social Reform and Resistance in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (2013)
  77. Performing a Rapid and Certain Cure: A Patent Medicine Bottle from the American Cotton Frontier (2014)
  78. Performing Colonialism: Setting the Stage at New Amstel (2022)
  79. Peripheral Middling Plantations: The Late Antebellum Period at James Madison's Montpelier (2015)
  80. Periploi and the Greek Worldview (2019)
  81. "A permanent blemish...in the centre of the village": Class and the National Cultural Heritage Movement in Plymouth, Massachusetts (2020)
  82. Permit Required: Catch and Release Archaeology (2023)
  83. Perpetration and Victimhood on the Kremlin's Doorstep: A Landscape of Great Terror Memory (2018)
  84. Perseverance, Resistance, and Community: An Introduction to the Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Great Blasket, Co Kerry, Ireland (2019)
  85. Persistence in the Face of Change: 17th Century Rappahannock Households at Camden Farm (2018)
  86. Persistence of Equality Through Daily Life at the Parker Academy: New Insights From Archaeological and Archival Research (2019)
  87. The Persistence of Resistance: Chinese Kongsi Partnerships in 18th Century Borneo and 19th Century North America (2020)
  88. Persistent Places in Indigenous North America (2023)
  89. Persistent Places in Landscapes of Dispersal: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigations at Queen Esther’s Town Preserve, Athens, PA (2018)
  90. Personal Adornment in the Context of Antebellum Slavery at Poplar Forest (1830-1858) (2013)
  91. Personal Amulets as Artifacts: An Examination of the Significance of Japanese Omamori (2014)
  92. Personal Artifacts from the CSS Georgia (2022)
  93. The Personal is Political: Feminist research and the importance of exploring gendered experiences of the past and present (2014)
  94. Personal Possessions and Their Identity Onboard Sixteenth-Century Shipwrecks (2021)
  95. Persons and Mortuary Practices in the Native Northeast (2015)
  96. Perspectives on Sport Divers and Maritime Archaeology: A Roundtable Discussion (2014)
  97. Perspectives on Underwater Cultural Heritage Management of Hispaniola (2015)
  98. Peru´s Cultural Heritage Management, Structural Discrimination, and Communities´ Relationship with Their Past. (2023)
  99. Petrolheads: Managing England’s Early Submarines (2013)
  100. The Petrology and Geochemistry of Ballast Stones- Evidence of Voyaging and Identity (2023)