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. Research Approaches to Abandoned Cemeteries in Wisconsin. (2020)
  2. Research Implications for Archaeological Collections Management at a Small Academic Institution (2014)
  3. Research of US Navy Terrestrial Military Aircraft Wrecks (2016)
  4. The Research Potential of DNA from Tobacco Pipes (2020)
  5. Research Through Education: An Example From Southern Pennsylvania (2016)
  6. Research Tools for Identifying and Analyzing British Transferware (2018)
  7. Research Updates on the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck Project, the Study of a Vessel from Luna’s 1559 Fleet (2015)
  8. Researching an African American Founder With the Help of One of Historical Archaeology’s Founders (2017)
  9. Reservation Archaeology: Past, Current, and Future Themes (2018)
  10. Resistance, Resilience, and Blackfoot Horse Culture from the Reservation Period to the Present (2018)
  11. Resisting the River: Site Monitoring and Erosion at Fort Eustis, Virginia (2022)
  12. Resolving Individual and Community Identities though Spirituality and Ritual: Some Insights from Burial Practices Observed at the First African Baptist Church Cemetery Sites, Philadelphia (2018)
  13. Resource Management and Scientific Research at Pearl Harbor National Memorial (2020)
  14. Respecting the Past: Archaeology and Aboriginal Burial Grounds (2014)
  15. Rest in Peace: Protecting Historic Cemeteries from Natural Disasters (2020)
  16. Rest Sweet Rest: Addressing the Challenges to Preserving African American Cemeteries in an Urban Environment (2023)
  17. Restaurants, Businesses, and Graveyards: Mapping the "Resettlement" of Japanese Americans in Chicago, 1943-1950 (2017)
  18. Restitution to Whom? Considerations Regarding Restitution to Indigenous Peoples of French Possessions (2023)
  19. Restoration and Archeology at San Jacinto: Dividing Legend from Fact through Dialogue (2018)
  20. Restoring Faith: Community Archaeology and the Search for America’s Oldest Black Baptist Church (2023)
  21. Restoring the Double Row, Clumps, and Carriage Turnaround of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Three Interdisciplinary Case Studies in Landscape Restoration (2014)
  22. Results From The First Excavation On The Saintes Bay’s Shipwreck, Guadeloupe, FWI (2016)
  23. Results from the Seventeenth-Century Doane Site, Eastham, Massachusetts (2022)
  24. Results of the 2021 Underwater Archaeological Excavations at Fort Mose (8SJ40) (2022)
  25. Resurrecting Old Pattonia: Uncovering the Lifeways of a Nineteenth Century Shipping Port Community (2014)
  26. Rethinking "Frontiers" from a French Colonial Perspective (2017)
  27. Rethinking Colonialism: Indigenous Innovation, Colonial Inevitability and the Struggle for Dignity, Past and Present (2013)
  28. Rethinking the Concept of ‘Marginalized’ Indians: An example from Southern New England (2014)
  29. Rethinking the Slave Village: A New Perspective on Slave Housing in Early 19th Century Jamaica (2014)
  30. Retire to the Country: Recent Research at the Highland House Site, Antigua and Barbuda (2023)
  31. Retracing the Middlebrook Encampments of the American Revolutionary War: A Cartographic Analysis (2021)
  32. A Retrospective Look At The Material Culture Of The Leonard Calvert Site (2018)
  33. The return of the Red Bay Txalupa – Le retour de la txalupa de Red Bay (2014)
  34. Return to Antikythera (2017)
  35. A Return to Fort Mose: Exploring a Free African Town on the Spanish Frontier (1752-1763) (2020)
  36. Return to Martin’s Hundred: The Archaeology of a Mid-Seventeenth Century Virginia Houselot (2020)
  37. Return to Portland 2019: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Exploration with Deep Sea Technology and Telepresence (2020)
  38. Return To The 'Queen City of the West': Preliminary Investigations at the Port of Indianola, Texas (2017)
  39. Revealing Hidden Histories and Confronting the Segregated Past: the Political and Social Dynamics of Memory in a Coastal Florida City (2018)
  40. Revealing Layers of Silenced History: Monuments and Statues of Women (2023)
  41. Revealing the Hidden Landscape: Saint Croix Island International Historical Site beyond French Colonial Settlement (2020)
  42. The Revelatory Power of a Button: Families Divided, Families Reunited (2014)
  43. A Review of Archaeological Research at the Acadian Village of Beaubassin (2014)
  44. A review of European forts in Asia-Pacific (2023)
  45. A review of the Submerged: stories of Australia’s shipwrecks program. (2018)
  46. Revising Sixteenth-Century Olive Jar Chronology: The View from Two Early Contact Sites in Florida (2023)
  47. Revising traditional attributions of some French tin-glazed earthenware through archeological data and geochemical compositions of the bodies (2014)
  48. Revisiting "Mission Impossible" and the other Zacatecan Missions of East Texas and West Louisiana (2017)
  49. Revisiting a Demolished Community: Correlating Archaeological Foundations to Archival Images (2023)
  50. Revisiting and Revaluating the First World War Battlescape off North Carolina’s Coastline (2020)
  51. Revisiting Castle Hill (1804-1867): A Russian-American Company Fort in Tlingit Territory (2023)
  52. Revisiting Colonoware in Williamsburg (2023)
  53. Revisiting Josiah Henson's Role in Maryland History. (2016)
  54. Revisiting Old Collections: Revelations from the 175 Water Street Site, New York City (2014)
  55. Revisiting Parting Ways Forty Years Later: Some Research Challenges and Successes (2015)
  56. Revisiting Past Excavations: An In-Depth Look at Feature B7 from the African Meeting House, Boston, MA (2015)
  57. Revisiting Providence Cove Lands: Lessons in Curation and the Potential of Existing Collections. (2018)
  58. Revisiting Ria de Aveiro A (Portugal): a new approach to early modern Atlantic shipbuilding and maritime trade (2013)
  59. Revisiting Root Cellars at The Hermitage, Davidson County, Tennessee. (2018)
  60. Revisiting Sacramento’s Gold Rush: Maritime Archeological Investigation in the Sacramento River (2020)
  61. Revisiting Snowtown: A 21st Century Analysis of the North Shore Site in Providence, Rhode Island (2018)
  62. Revisiting Terrestrial And Maritime Cultural Landscapes In Coastal Sierra Leone (2023)
  63. Revisiting the Battle of Yorktown: Part of the Battlefield is Missing! (2022)
  64. Revisiting the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck Site: Research Potential, Conservation in situ, and the future of Bahamian Material Culture (2015)
  65. Revisiting the Highbourne Cay Wreck : How modern methods can help re-interpret a shipwreck site (2014)
  66. Revisiting the Submerged Settlement at Methoni: Current and Ongoing Research of the Methoni Bay (Greece) Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Heritage Project (2023)
  67. Revisiting Williamsburg’’s First Two Reconstructions: Using 3D Modeling to Reexamine and Reinterpret the Raleigh Tavern and Capitol (2014)
  68. Revitalizing the Powhatan Indian Town: Collaborative Engagement at the Jamestown Settlement (2020)
  69. Reviving Bruges’ Lost Outer Harbors. From Survey and Excavation to Augmented and Virtual Reality (2023)
  70. The Revoloutionary War «USA» Button: A Study in Qualitative Archaeology (2014)
  71. The revolution before the Revolution? A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism (2014)
  72. Revolution or Fad: Perspectives on Community Engagement in Archaeology (2020)
  73. The Revolution Will Not Be Analyzed Here: Knocking the Cooper River Strawberry Vessel Shipwreck Out Of The American Revolution With Metallurgical Analysis Of Hull Sheathing (2020)
  74. Revolutionary Households: Archaeology at the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla (2013)
  75. The Revolutionary Legacy of the Ruiz Family at Site 41BX795 (2022)
  76. The Revolutionary Quash (2020)
  77. The Revolutionary War Gunboat Philadelphia: 2019 Update (2020)
  78. The Revolutionary World of Free Black Man Jacob Francis: 1754-1836 (2022)
  79. Revolutionizing Sub-surface Testing Strategies for Archaeological Impact Assessments: Innovation out of New Brunswick, Canada (2020)
  80. A Revolving Frontier: Change and Continuity in Marginal Icelandic Settlement, ca. 900-1900 CE (2020)
  81. Rewriting the Narrative: Collections Management in the Time of Pandemic and Global Transition (2021)
  82. Rhenish stoneware in New France: German potters, Breton traders, New France consumers (2020)
  83. The Rhode Island Archaeological and Historical Geographic Information System (GIS) Development Project (2018)
  84. Rhyolite, Charcoal and Whiskey: The Archaeology of Catoctin Mountain Park (2016)
  85. The Ribadeo Wreck – Multi-year Photogrammetric Survey of a Spanish Galleon of the Second Armada (2023)
  86. The Ribeira Velha of Lisbon and the Requalification of Lisbon Water Front. Archaeological Excavations in a Nautical Context. (2018)
  87. Rice as Resistance: The Significance of Saraka in the Global Diasporic Observance of the Third Pillar (2023)
  88. Riddled with Bullets: Applying Shooting Incident Reconstruction Techniques to American Colonial Structures and Architectural Elements Associated with the British Retreat to Boston, April 19, 1775 (2021)
  89. Right to the City: Community-Based Urban Archaeology as Abolitionist Geography (2020)
  90. The Right to Wharf Out: Contextualizing Early American Wharf Construction (2020)
  91. Righting Past Wrongs (2020)
  92. Rim Shot: An Examination of Olive Jar Rims from the 16th Century Tristán de Luna Settlement Site (2023)
  93. The Rise and Fall of High Morlaggan (2013)
  94. The Rise of Global Markets in Gold Rush San Francisco (2015)
  95. The Rise of Slavery in the Valley of Virginia and its Enduring Presence on the Landscape of Lexington and Rockbridge County (2018)
  96. The Rise of the Cedars: 2014-2015 Investigations at the Cox Farm in Georgetown (2016)
  97. "Rises in the Rice Fields", Aerial LiDAR applications on South Carolina Inland Rice Plantations  (2013)
  98. Rising from the Dark Marshes: Investigations of an Elite Homestead on Mulberry Island, Virginia (2017)
  99. Risk Assessment of Archaeological Sites Using Lidar: Sea level Rise Modeling at Jamestown Island, VA (2017)
  100. Ritual and Resistance at Trents Cave, Barbados (2018)