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)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 601-700 of 7,550)

  • Documents (7,550)
  1. #Archeology: Loose Lips Save Slave Ships? (2017)
  2. The Architectural Evolution of Quebec City’s Lower Town: 350 Years of Urbanization (2018)
  3. The Architectural Influence Of Ships Sailing The Red Sea Under The Ottoman Empire, The Contribution Of Underwater Archaeology (2024)
  4. Architectural Reconstruction and the Andy Warhol Factor (2014)
  5. The Architecture of Destruction: A Study on the Evolution of a 20th Century Black Powder Mill in Western Pennsylvania (2020)
  6. Architecture of Early Water Reclamation on Blackfeet Reservation (2018)
  7. The Architecture of Fear: San Sabá’s Lasting Impact on Spanish Colonial Mission Construction as Exemplified at Mission San Lorenzo in Real County, Texas. (2020)
  8. Architecture, Landscape, and the Development of Community Identity: St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Cahaba, Alabama, USA (2023)
  9. Architecural documentation of Ash Lawn Highland: examining the evidence (2016)
  10. Archival Digitization and Accessibility in a Small Island Nation: A Case Study (2017)
  11. Archival Fractals: Bodies, Records, Perspectives and Memories (2023)
  12. Archival Insight: The Archaeology of Native Cabins, Critical Fabulation, and Interpreting Survivance (2025)
  13. Archival Research and the Historical Background of the 1782 Evacuation of Charleston and the Loss of the Storm Wreck (2016)
  14. Archival Shapeshifting: On the Muddy Paths of Transcendence between Nation-States (2023)
  15. Archival Silence, Archaeological Fluency: Finding Indigenous Slavery In The Chesapeake (2024)
  16. The Archivist, the Archaeologist, and Feminist Questing (2014)
  17. The Archéo-Québec network: a review and forthcoming projects (2014)
  18. Archéo-Québec: L’archéologie préventive : Guide pratique à l’intention des municipalités du Québec (2014)
  19. Archéodendrométrie et artéfacts, de la fouille au musée (2014)
  20. Archéologie préventive et monuments historiques coloniaux dans les départements d’outremer français : quels enjeux ? (2014)
  21. Arctic Steam: HMS Pioneer and the Technology of the Search for Franklin (2016)
  22. Are Digital 3D Tools Better Than Traditional Methods? New Perspectives on Approaching Maritime Archaeology (2025)
  23. Are ROVs The New VIP?: Developing A Supplemental Method For Recording Shipwrecks (2017)
  24. Are There Any French Glass Beads In Quebec (16th and 17th Centuries)? (2018)
  25. Are We (or Should We) be Still be "Putting the "There" There?" (2023)
  26. Are We Covered?: The Status of Non-US Navy Vessels Under the Sunken Military Craft Act (2016)
  27. Are We Doing This Right? How Do You ‘Museum’ When Faced With The COVID Curveball? (2021)
  28. Are You Always This Disarticulate? The Fundamental Disconnect of Interpreting the Fragments of the Route 35 Shipwreck (2025)
  29. Arguing for an Archaeology of Dog Fighting (2014)
  30. Arks, Broadhorns, and Hoop-Pole Boats: The America Flatboat Wreck in Southern Illinois (2015)
  31. Armed Slaves: The Possession of Firearms by Enslaved Persons at Kingsley Plantation, FL (2014)
  32. Armed to the Teeth: The Archaeology of Arms Procurement and Use in the Early 19th-Century Gulf of Mexico (2016)
  33. Arming Africans in the Antebellum South: A Critical Reassessment of Firearm Usage at Kingsley Plantation (1814-1861), Fort George Island, Florida (2023)
  34. "Arming the Roanoke Colony": Illustrating Bellicosity through Archival and Archaeological Findings (2015)
  35. Arms Across the Atlantic: The Faux Blakely Rifles and their North Carolina Connection (2013)
  36. Army Wives and Kids: Civilian Lives in Military Context at the Augusta Arsenal (2018)
  37. Arnold's Bay Project: Background Research for a Revolutionary Battlefield Site on Lake Champlain (2021)
  38. The Arnold's Bay Project: Introduction and Background (2022)
  39. Arnold’s Bay Project: Material Culture and Connections from a Colonial Battlefield in Lake Champlain (2024)
  40. Arqueología e Memoria : La Mujer Borrada (2014)
  41. Arrggghhh Braaaaiiiins: The Zooarchaeology of a Mid-19th Century Privy in New Orleans’ Historic French Quarter (2018)
  42. Art and Archaeology of Konark Sun Temple:A World Heritage Site (2014)
  43. Art as Recorded History: Ledger Art as Historic Documentation in the North American Plains (2025)
  44. Artefacts of transformation: the material culture of Black Loyalists in late eighteenth century Atlantic Canada. (2013)
  45. Artifact and Identity: Seeking Cultural Markers on the Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 (2023)
  46. Artifact Assemblage from the Converging Worlds Project (2018)
  47. The Artifact Assemblage of the Warwick (2013)
  48. The Artifact Collection from Modern Greece: Using 50 Years of Conservation to Answer New Questions (2015)
  49. Artifact Collection Processing and Analysis Methodology - Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project (2025)
  50. Artifact Conservation: Problems, Solutions, and Explorations (2013)
  51. Artifact or Evidence? The Role of Material Culture at War-Related Forensic Recovery Scenes (2017)
  52. Artifact Revelations on the Guthrie Homestead (2016)
  53. "Artifacts and Advertisements and Articles, Oh My": Life and Culture at the Hotel Pend d’Oreille (2019)
  54. Artifacts and Personal Identity: Reflecting on MCB (2022)
  55. An Artifacts Coordinator in Egypt: COVID-19, Collections Management, and Opening a Museum in the Developing World (2021)
  56. Artifacts from Luna’s Settlement and Shipwrecks (2017)
  57. Artifacts From The Chinese Quarter Of Jacksonville, OR – The Chemical Story (2016)
  58. Artifacts from US Military Installation: Dusty Treasures or Unwanted Objects (2017)
  59. Artifacts in the Archives: Material Culture Curated Within Milwaukee County Coroner’s Inquests (2018)
  60. Artifacts of Agency, Status, and Empowerment: Colonoware, Crystals, Wig Hair Curlers (2016)
  61. The Artifacts of Arnold’s Bay: Following the Diaspora of Material Culture Over Time (2022)
  62. Artifacts of Glory and Pain: Evolving Cultural Narratives on Confederate Symbolism and Commemoration (2020)
  63. The Artifacts of Outlander: Using Popular Culture to Promote Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
  64. Artificers & Armorers at the 1778-1779 Artillery Cantonment: New Insights from Experimental Archaeology (2021)
  65. Artillery and Anomalies: Marine Remote-sensing off Guam’s WWII Invasion Beaches (2024)
  66. Artistic Endeavors in Nebraska’s Prisoner of War Camps (2015)
  67. "As Long As I Have Served, I Have Not Yet Left A Battlefield In Such Deep Sorrow…": Archeology, History And The Material Remains Of Fort Mercer, Red Bank, New Jersey (2016)
  68. "As one looks at the stone the questions arise": Nativism, Mythologized Histories, and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in British Columbia (2024)
  69. Ash Dump Archaeology: Piecing Together the History of the R. J. Dunn House (2020)
  70. The Ash Grove Meaathouse: Public Archaeology and Preservation at a Fairfax Family Property (2016)
  71. Ashkhabad: Video Documentation of the 2013 Field Season (2014)
  72. Asia and Les Baleiniers: A History of Jeremiah Winslow and French Efforts to Encourage a Whaling Industry out of Le Havre in the Early 19th Century (2024)
  73. Asian Export Porcelain at the New York City Archaeological Repository (2016)
  74. Ask the Archaeologists: Mount Clare Archaeology Past and Future (2016)
  75. Asking New Questions of Old Collections, The Future of Curated Assemblages. (2016)
  76. Aspirational Architecture and AK-47s: The Intersections of Nineteenth-Century Settlement Processes and the Post-Conflict Detritus of Violence in Liberia (2020)
  77. Assembling Race in Domestic Space at Woodville, 1850-1900 (2024)
  78. Assessing and Communicating Natural Disaster Threats with Digital Technologies (2023)
  79. Assessing Environmental Impacts on Shipwreck Sites: Results & Lessons Learned from the 2009-2012 Gulf of Mexico Shipwreck Study (2013)
  80. Assessing Functional Variation in Colonoware Assemblages at an Inter-regional Scale (2025)
  81. Assessing Healthcare amid World War II Incarceration (2019)
  82. Assessing Literacy among the Enslaved in the Antebellum South (2025)
  83. Assessing Local Variability and Storm Impacts in Coastal Paleoenvironment Models (2023)
  84. Assessing Northwest Florida’s At-Risk Maritime Cultural Heritage Resources (2023)
  85. Assessing Recently Discovered Shipwrecks on Lake Winnipesaukee (2020)
  86. Assessing the Damage and Remaining Archeological Potential of Commercially Salvaged Sites Mozambique Island: the case of São Sebastião fortress wrecks. (2017)
  87. Assessing the Long Term Stability of Underwater Archaeological Conservation Techniques (2014)
  88. Assessing the Remains of the Crosswicks Creek Revolutionary War-Era Shipwrecks (2022)
  89. Assessing the Value and Potential of Labor Archaeology: A Description of the Labor Archaeology of the Industrial Era National Historic Landmark Theme Study (2015)
  90. An Assessment of an early 19th century AD Ceramic Assemblage from Mozambique Island (2023)
  91. Assigning Site Function: An Archaeological Investigation of the Fickling Settlement at Dixie Plantation in Hollywood, SC (2014)
  92. At Home in the City: reflections on theoretical and methodological approaches to contemporary homeless heritage (2016)
  93. At Land’s End: Recovering wharf builders in the late 18th and early 19th-century Chesapeake (2023)
  94. "At Rest," the Pima Lodge 10, Improved Order of Red Men Cemetery Plot in Tucson, Arizona. (2016)
  95. At Risk in Delaware: Nature and Culture in Conflict (2019)
  96. At the Crossroads of Consumption: 19th Century Slave Life in Western Tennessee (2015)
  97. At the Crossroads: Intersections of Colonization (2018)
  98. At the limits of the colonial world: a brief analysis of missionary springs and water sources (2014)
  99. At the Margins of the Plantation: An Archaeology of the ‘Poor Whites’ of Barbados (2014)
  100. At the Precipice of Change: 50 years of Underwater Resource Management at the Texas Historical Commission (2022)