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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  • Documents (6,639)
  1. A Reanalysis of Human Remains from a Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace (2016)
  2. Reanalysis of the Japanese Gulch Village Collection: Japanese Ceramics Recovered from a Pacific Northwest Issei Community (2018)
  3. Reanalyzing Colonoware at Drayton Hall (2019)
  4. Reasons, Trends and Motivations in the Transformation of Settlement Structure during the Medieval and Post-medieval Periods in the Czech Republic (2013)
  5. Reassessing the 1760-Machault shipwreck site (1969-2010): from a site-specific approach to a battlefield archaeology (2014)
  6. Reassessing the 1898 U.S. assault on Asomante through battlefield archeology (2016)
  7. Reassessing the Ballajá Archaeological Collection (2018)
  8. Reassessing the Early Metallic Burial Case Industry 1848-1858 (2022)
  9. Reassessing the Hallowes Site: Conflict and Settlement in the 17th-century Potomac Valley (2014)
  10. The Rebecca Nurse Monument and George Jacobs Headstone: Using Landscape Archaeology to Discover a Commemorative Environment (2023)
  11. Rebel Without a Provenience: When Bad Archaeology Makes for Great Public Outreach (2020)
  12. Rebellion, Civil War, and Transformation: The Archaeology of Modern Ireland Before and During Europe’s Interwar Period (2018)
  13. The Rebellious Legacy of Nantucket’s African-American Community: The Women of the Boston-Higginbotham House (2020)
  14. "Rebels" and "Idolators" in the Valley of Volcanoes: An Archaeological and Historical Inquiry of Andagua, Peru, 1000AD-1800AD (2015)
  15. Rebuilding coastal palaeo-landscapes in Apulia (Southern Italy). (2013)
  16. "Rebuilding" Chinatown in The Dalles, Oregon (2015)
  17. Recent Advancements in Stereo Photogrammetric Survey on Shipwrecks in New England (2023)
  18. Recent Advances in Marine Magnetic Survey: Case Studies from the Application of the Magnetometer Survey Python Toolbox V 1.0 (2015)
  19. Recent Aircraft And Carriers Discovered By R/V Petrel (2020)
  20. Recent Analyses of the Faunal Assemblage from the Submerged Cave Site of Hoyo Negro: Implications for Late Pleistocene Human Ecology Research on the Yucatan Peninsula (2016)
  21. Recent Archaeological Discoveries at James Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland (2016)
  22. Recent Archaeological Investigations at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas: Indigenous Identity in Spanish Colonial and Modern Times. (2017)
  23. Recent Archaeological Investigations at the 1559-1561 Settlement of Tristán de Luna y Arellano on Pensacola Bay (2020)
  24. Recent Archaeological Investigations at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis (2018)
  25. Recent Archaeological Work at Batavia's 1629 Graveyard, Western Australia (2016)
  26. Recent Archaeology at the John Joyner Smith Plantation on the Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, Beaufort County, South Carolina (2022)
  27. Recent Discoveries at C-21 (The Allerton/Cushman Site), Kingston, Massachusetts (2020)
  28. Recent Research and Future Plans at the Leonard Calvert House Site (2018)
  29. Recent Research into an Antebellum Brick Slave Cabin at Poplar Forest Plantation (2022)
  30. Recent Shipwreck Discoveries off San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (2016)
  31. A Reciprocal Opportunity: Interning and Contributing on the Guerrero Project (2018)
  32. Reclaiming History: The Osage Nation Heritage Sites Visit (2020)
  33. Reclaiming Memory of Those Unknown: An Archaeological Study of the African-American Cemetery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2016)
  34. Reclaiming the Landscapes of Black History in Shockoe Bottom 1695 > 1865 > 2015 (2016)
  35. Reclaiming Time in the Old City: From State Heritage to Life Projects in Acre (Israel/Palestine) and Rhodes (Greece) (2023)
  36. Recognizing Geomagnetic Storms in Marine Magnetometer Data: Toward Improved Archaeological Resource Identification Practices (2016)
  37. Reconceptualizing the Wichita Middle Ground in the Southern Plains (1600-1840 CE) (2020)
  38. Reconciling African Enslavement and Chickasaw Removal (2014)
  39. Reconnaissance Survey of Ultra-Deepwater Shipwrecks and the Maritime Archaeological Landscape of the Gulf of Mexico (2020)
  40. Reconnecting liminal spaces of labor in the northeast (2014)
  41. Reconsidering Representations in Fur Trade Archaeology (2014)
  42. Reconsidering the Colonial Encounter in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts (2020)
  43. Reconsidering the First Generations of Colonial Encounters in the Lower Delaware Valley of the North American Middle Atlantic (2017)
  44. Reconstructing "Lost" Vessels: Applying Photogrammetric Techniques to Historical Photographs (2021)
  45. Reconstructing an Eighteenth-Century Brig from Historical Photographs (2019)
  46. Reconstructing Daily Life in Little Flat Creek Valley (2015)
  47. Reconstructing History Embedded in Tampa’s Urban Core: Photogrammetry of the 1800s Estuary Cemetery from Fort Brooke, FL (2021)
  48. Reconstructing Holocene Wetlands of Northern England: New Paleographic Models in the Humber Estuary (2015)
  49. Reconstructing La Belle's Casks (2015)
  50. Reconstructing New Orleans’ Historic Fisheries: Preliminary Results and Future Directions (2018)
  51. Reconstructing Ships from Archaeological Ship Remains (2023)
  52. Reconstructing the Bow of the Emanuel Point Ship (2023)
  53. Reconstructing the French Assault on Fort Necessity using Metal Detection (2018)
  54. Reconstructing the Hull and Rig of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge (2018)
  55. Reconstructing the Landscape of Death: A City-Site Approach to the Study of African American Burials (2014)
  56. Reconstructing the Landscape of late Eighteenth Century Williamsburg: The Application and Presentation of Levels of Archaeological Data within a Virtual Environment (2014)
  57. Reconstructing the Pillar Dollar Wreck (2017)
  58. Reconstructing the Retail Mind: the Analysis of Store and Mail Order Catalogues (2020)
  59. Reconstructing the shoreline and climate of the ancient Maya port Vista Alegre using marine geoarchaeological methods (2014)
  60. Reconstructing the Waterfront: An Archaeological Examination of Washington, North Carolina’s Nineteenth Century Port (2021)
  61. Reconstructing Urban Landscapes at Fort Recovery, Ohio (2017)
  62. Reconstructing water levels and access to the subterranean pit of Hoyo Negro, Mexico (2014)
  63. Reconstruction And Interpretation Of Archaeological Textiles Excavated From The H.L. Hunley Submarine: A Collaborative Effort Between Conservators, Archaeologists, Curators, And Historians (2022)
  64. The reconstruction of a 17th century Spanish galleon (2014)
  65. Reconstruction of a replica swivel gun (2013)
  66. Reconstruction of Seventeeth Century Iberian Rigging (2020)
  67. Reconstruction of the early 19th-Century Lake Champlain Steamboat Phoenix (2014)
  68. Reconstruction of the Lake Champlain Steamboat Phoenix II (2018)
  69. Reconstruction of the Pillar Dollar Wreck, BIscayne National Park, Florida (2016)
  70. Reconstruction of the World Trade Center Ship (2020)
  71. Reconstructions. Between Facts and Choices. A Discussion on Methods and Results from the Barcode 6 Boat (AD1595). (2023)
  72. Recontextualizing the Caribbean: Archaeology of Danish Engagement in South India (2023)
  73. Recording Historic Shipwrecks at the Speed of Light: An Archaeological Analysis of the ULS-200 Underwater Laser Scanner to Sonar, Video, and Photographic Recording Methodologies (2015)
  74. Recording Modern Shipwrecks as Heritage (2013)
  75. The recording of two diaspora Acadian families on Isle Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) (2014)
  76. Recording Shipwrecks At The Speed Of Light: Experimental Use Of An Underwater Laser Scanner On The Confederate Ironclad, CSS Georgia (2016)
  77. Recording the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck: The Process of Documenting a 16th Century Shipwreck Before In Situ Conservation (2018)
  78. Recording the Original Hull Fasteners of the Charles W. Morgan (2013)
  79. Recording the Swash Channel Wreck using high resolution photo mosaics (2013)
  80. Recovering Family History: Archaeological Investigations at the James Holliday House in Annapolis, Maryland (2013)
  81. Recovering the Landscape of an Abandoned Town in Port Tobacco, Maryland (2017)
  82. Recovery Methods of the CSS Georgia Data Recovery Project (2016)
  83. Recreating Betty’s Hope Sugar Plantation Through Geographic Information System (GIS) (2014)
  84. Recreating Historic Photography as a Tool for Archaeologists (2013)
  85. Recreating the Bahamian Plantation Landscape: Charles Farquharson's Prospect Hill Plantation archeaology and historical insights (2013)
  86. Recurrent Photogrammetry: Theory, Methodology and Application. (2018)
  87. Recycle, Reduce, Reuse: The Development of the Pensacola Snapper Smack (2016)
  88. Red Buttes Dugout: A Case Study for Identifying Small-Scale Alcohol Production (2023)
  89. The Red Light Life Of The Bandemer’s Hotel In Detroit, Michigan (2018)
  90. Red Rover Red Rover- Send your Volunteers on Over: Multi-Agency and Volunteer Effort Leads to Protection of Endangered Swift Creek Site (2016)
  91. Redcoats, Redoubts, and Relics: An Archaeo-military History of Fort Ticonderoga (2019)
  92. Redefining Community Archaeology: Shared Experiences and A Collaborative Approach to the Site Stabilization Efforts Following the Oso Landslide (2016)
  93. Redefining Plantation Landscapes at James Monroe’s Highland: A Spatial Analysis of Yard Usage and Function (2020)
  94. Redefining the Archaeological "Site:" Landscapes of Japanese American Incarceration (2015)
  95. Redefining Urban Space: Velha Goa and the Construction of Its Outer Fortification Wall (2015)
  96. Rediscovering Airship Artifacts (2015)
  97. Rediscovering Camp Floyd: Archaeological Testing of a Pre-Civil War Military Post in Utah (2018)
  98. Rediscovering Elfreth’s Alley’s 19th-century History through Public Archaeology (2015)
  99. Rediscovering Pend Oreille City, a Forgotten Town in Northern Idaho (2018)
  100. Rediscovering the Dawn Settlement and Josiah Henson's Legacy (2020)