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 • Colonialism • Slavery • Public Archaeology • Ceramics • Identity • Plantation • Shipwrecks • Material Culture

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 (7,550)
  1. Archaeology of Environmental Inequality (2016)
  2. Archaeology of Excursion Steamboats: Recent Work on Late 19th Century Shipwrecks of the Midwest (2018)
  3. An Archaeology of Fear and Loathing: Building, Remembering and Commemorating the Civilian and Military Fortifications of the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota. (2020)
  4. An Archaeology Of Folklore: A Transdisciplinary Future In University College Dublin’s National Folklore Collection (2024)
  5. The Archaeology of Forts and Battlefields (2013)
  6. The Archaeology of Gender in Historic America (2013)
  7. The Archaeology of Gendered Resistance at the Industrial Mine in Superior, CO (2017)
  8. The Archaeology of God’s Wrath – A Major Earthquake on the East Coast in 1663 (2015)
  9. An Archaeology of Homeplace at the Parting Ways, an African-American Settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts (2016)
  10. The Archaeology of Illicit Behavior in Springfield, Illinois’ Badlands (2025)
  11. An Archaeology of Inventories: An 18th Century Jesuit Winery and Distillery in Nasca, Peru (2018)
  12. The Archaeology of Irish Railroad Laborers in Mid-Nineteenth Century Virginia: Findings from the First Field Season (2013)
  13. An Archaeology Of Jazz: Urban And Racial Identity At The Blue Bird Inn, Detroit (2016)
  14. An Archaeology of Landscape on the Petit Nord (2014)
  15. The Archaeology of Liberia’s Providence Island beyond 1822 Settlement (2024)
  16. The Archaeology of Maritime Alexandria (2020)
  17. Archaeology of Mercantilism: An Analysis of Vessels and Passengers in Puerto Rico, 1510-1545 (2016)
  18. Archaeology of Migrations: Integrated Maritime and Land Archaeology to Assess Disease Control in the Indian Ocean (2023)
  19. Archaeology of Modern Pollution (2023)
  20. An Archaeology Of Modernization: The Cultural Transformation In Galicia (NW Spain) Through Architecture And Domestic Material Culture. (2023)
  21. Archaeology of Mothering in 19th Century Colonial Yucatán (2020)
  22. Archaeology of Oostenburg. The Amsterdam harbour extension of 1660 and the VOC ship yard (2014)
  23. The Archaeology of Pat’s Island, Ocala National Forest, Florida (2022)
  24. The Archaeology of Pet Taxidermy (2020)
  25. Archaeology of Pierre Metoyer’s 18th-Century French Colonial Plantation Site, Natchitoches, Louisiana (2016)
  26. The Archaeology of Pineapples: An excavation of a Vinery-Pinery in Scotland (2013)
  27. The Archaeology Of Piracy: In The Wake Of 20 Years Of Research (2025)
  28. The Archaeology of Pivotal Places: The Structuring of Habitual Landscape and the Bush Hill Plantation. (2020)
  29. Archaeology of Plastics: On Overcoming, Oceans, and Environmentalism (2020)
  30. The Archaeology of Playing Indian: Boy Scout Camps as Colonial Imaginaries (2016)
  31. The Archaeology of Racial Hatred: Discovery and Partial Excavation of Seven Houses Destroyed During the Springfield Race Riot of August 1908 (2025)
  32. The Archaeology of Racial Hatred: Springfield, Illinois (2020)
  33. An Archaeology of Redress: Freedom as Impossible Praxis (2023)
  34. The Archaeology of Refugee Crises in Greece: Diachronic Cultural Landscapes (2017)
  35. The Archaeology of Religion in America (2013)
  36. Archaeology of repression and resistance during Francoist dictatorship (2017)
  37. The Archaeology of Rural Proletarianization in Early Modern Iceland (2016)
  38. Archaeology of Shifting Landscapes on the Historic San Francisco Waterfront (2015)
  39. The archaeology of ship communication: Preliminary study of an early 17th-century Dutch poste restante in the Indian Ocean (2013)
  40. The archaeology of siege warfare at the gateways of Paris : training Louis XIV’s troops at the Saint-Sebastien Fort (2014)
  41. The Archaeology of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century San Agustin: The City’s First 135 Years (2025)
  42. The archaeology of Slavery in Southern Brazil in Global Perspective (2013)
  43. An Archaeology of Supremacy: A Planter's Household at Stewart Castle, Jamaica (2025)
  44. An Archaeology of Survivance: Investigating Settler Colonial Narratives with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (2018)
  45. Archaeology of the 1859 Dorchester Industrial School for Girls: an Introduction (2018)
  46. Archaeology of the American Southwest: Comparing the Mythology of the Frontier with Daily Life in Fort Davis, Texas (2018)
  47. Archaeology of the Atlantic Early Modern Seaports. An Approach Via CONCHA Project. (2023)
  48. Archaeology of the Czechoslovak Uranium Gulag (2016)
  49. The archaeology of the early modern period and the Eighty Years’ War in the Zwin-Scheldt estuary (Belgium, the Netherlands) (2014)
  50. Archaeology Of The I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Improvement Project: The Big Picture (2022)
  51. Archaeology of the Mysterious Thompson Quarter (2025)
  52. The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade (2013)
  53. The Archaeology of the People’s Century? (2013)
  54. Archaeology of the St. Rosalie Cabin Complex (2025)
  55. Archaeology Of The William Berkley Sutler Store, Camp Nelson Civil War Depot, Jessamine County, Kentucky (2015)
  56. The Archaeology of Tourism at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2020)
  57. The Archaeology of Urban Blight (2016)
  58. Archaeology of Urban Slavery In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023)
  59. An Archaeology of Violent American Landscapes in Rosewood and Beyond (2021)
  60. The Archaeology of Working Class Identity at the Industrial Coal Mining Camp in Superior, Colorado (2017)
  61. The Archaeology of Yiddish Folklore: Towards an Understanding of Jewish Folk Practice in the 19th Century (2015)
  62. Archaeology on Facebook: Using the Social Media Platform to Teach Archaeology from Home (2021)
  63. Archaeology on Rogers Island in the Hudson River (2018)
  64. Archaeology on the Line: A 19th century mill hamlet on the Maine-New Brunswick border (2014)
  65. Archaeology on the World's Oldest Wooden Tugboat: Documenting and Restoring M/V Arthur Foss (2018)
  66. Archaeology over the Edge: Recent Work on the Hanging Flume in Western Colorado (2018)
  67. The Archaeology Plantation: White Supremacy and the Production of Archaeological Knowledge (2024)
  68. Archaeology Results at the Battle Peckuwe: Supporting New Narratives (2023)
  69. Archaeology Story Time: Using Tilden’s 6th Principle to Educate K-2 Children in Public Archaeology (2020)
  70. Archaeology with an Attentive Eye: African Americans, Archaeology, and Cultural Regeneration (2023)
  71. Archaeology without Ottoman Past: Historical Archaeology in Turkey (2014)
  72. Archaeology's Role in Changing a Generation of Youth: Exploring Education and Intersectionality (2017)
  73. Archaeology, Advertising, and Curing Your Ails (2020)
  74. Archaeology, Cosmology and African Ritual Past. Perspectives from Yikpabongo, Koma Land, Northern Region, Ghana (2013)
  75. Archaeology, Disability, and Healthcare Systems in California (2021)
  76. Archaeology, Education, and Gentrification: The View From San Francisco (2017)
  77. Archaeology, Education, and Heritage Management in Bates County, Missouri (2019)
  78. Archaeology, Ethics and the Remembrance of Conflict on the Island of Ireland (2020)
  79. Archaeology, Food Sovereignty, and Networks of Solidarity among Indigenous, Afrodescendens Communities, and Beyond in Brazil and Ecuador (2025)
  80. Archaeology, Memory and Community: Widening Engagement with Historical Archaeology (2013)
  81. Archaeology, Shadowed Pasts, and the Making of Heritage (2015)
  82. Archaeology: Antarctica and Outer Space (2023)
  83. "Archaeology? How Does That Work?" Incorporating Archaeology into the National Park Service LGBTQ Heritage Initiative as Community Engagement (2016)
  84. Archaeometallurgy of an 18th Century Shipwreck: The Sloop-of-war HMS Swift (1770), Santa Cruz, Argentina (2013)
  85. Archaeometrical study of Glass Trade Beads from the ClFi-10 site: results and their potential to investigate Amerindian exchange networks (2014)
  86. Archaeozoological studies of the Maritime Archaeology of the Port of Acapulco Project: Taphonomic and taxonomic analysis on faunal remains from San Diego Fort (2018)
  87. The ArcheoBlitz and Citizen Science at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota. (2017)
  88. ArcheoChallenge: Incentivizing Archeological Awareness and Tourism in National Parks (2019)
  89. The Archeological and Historical Evidence for the Wreck of L'Aurore- Summary and Implications (2023)
  90. Archeological discoveries and hypothesis for a new colonial portrait (2014)
  91. Archeological discoveries and hypothesis for a new colonial portrait (2014)
  92. Archeological Investigations of Theodore Roosevelts Fireing Range, Sagamore Hill National Historical Park. Oyster Bay, New York (2023)
  93. Archeological Practice and Citizen Science in the National Park Service (2020)
  94. Archeological Proving Grounds: Establishing Partnerships in Training, Education, and Research in the South Florida National Parks. (2020)
  95. Archeology and 3D photography (2014)
  96. The Archeology and Interpretation of Native Americans at Valley Forge National Historical Park (2020)
  97. Archeology and Public Education: Uncovering the Stories of the Virgin Islands National Park (2016)
  98. Archeology as an Incident: An Application of the Incident Command System for Citizen Science. (2020)
  99. An Archeology of Labor in Practice (2015)
  100. An archeology of segregation after the unification of Methodism in Washington, D.C. (2018)