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 801-900 of 7,550)

  • Documents (7,550)
  1. Below the Glaze: Absorbed Organic Residue Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Refined Earthenwares (2025)
  2. Below the Leaves of Grass: Collaborative Archaeology and Art as Restorative Justice (2024)
  3. Ben Franklin’s Mastodon Tooth, Frederick Douglass’s Arrow Point, and a Deadeye from a Revolutionary War Shipwreck: A Decade of Historical Archaeology in the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2022)
  4. The Ben Ross Homeplace at Indian Landing: "Ten Acres of Land for and During of His Life Time, Peaceable to Remain…" (2025)
  5. The Ben Ross Homeplace Virtual Museum: The Ethics, Challenges, and Benefits in Presenting Archaeological Collections in Cyberspace (2025)
  6. Beneath Still Waters: Charting the Hidden Landscapes of Gold Milling (2025)
  7. Beneath The Bricks – An Analysis Of Features Beneath The Brick Floor In George Washington’s Mount Vernon Cellar (2025)
  8. Beneath the Dome: An Archaeological Investigation of Falmouth, Jamaica’s “Phoenix Foundry” (2014)
  9. Beneath the Floorboards: Whispers of the Enslaved in Middletown, NJ (2022)
  10. Beneath the Parking Lot: Centuries of History at Gloucester Point (2018)
  11. The Benefits of Educating Young Professionals about Archaeological Conservation (2013)
  12. Bentham & Backhoes: a utilitarian approach to the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia cemetery excavation (2022)
  13. The Bermuda 100 Project: An Island-Scale Digital Atlas for Underwater Cultural Heritage (2020)
  14. Bermuda in Microcosm: The Smiths Island Archaeology Project, 1610-2014 (2015)
  15. Bermuda’s First Capital: Archaeology of Moore’s Town (1612) and English Atlantic Expansion (2025)
  16. The Best and Worst of Times: Bridging Stakeholders, Archaeologists, and Students to Craft Community Archaeology at the Robert H. Jackson Farmstead, Spring Creek, PA. (2020)
  17. The Best Kept Secrets in Archaeology: The numbers no one knows, but everyone talks about. (2015)
  18. Best Practices for 3D Recordation and Visualization of Historical Archaeological Sites (2018)
  19. Best Practices for Managing UCH on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (2015)
  20. A Beta Test of the North American Gunflint Inventory by Volunteer Citizen Scientists at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (2020)
  21. "A Better and Surer Food Supply": Promoting Foodways in the US Federal Education System for Alaska Natives, ca. 1884-1960 (2018)
  22. The "Better sort" and the "Poorer Sort": Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1807 (2013)
  23. Between City and Country: New 'Urban' Landscapes of the Industrial Period (2013)
  24. Between consumption and extermination: archaeologies of modern imperialism (2013)
  25. Between Continents, Between Cities: Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in Stanford, California (2018)
  26. Between Desert and Oasis: Historic Irrigation Systems in the Western United States (2015)
  27. Between Dirt and Digital: Finding New Ways to Record Old Stuff! (2015)
  28. Between Gold & Gravestones: Uncovering the Lost Dead of the Klondike Gold Rush (2024)
  29. Between Ideals and Reality: The Modernization of Southern Agriculture - 1830 to 1865 (2016)
  30. Between Seascapes and Sandscapes: An Archaeological Approach of the Insular and Coastal Nautical Spaces in the Colombian Caribbean during the 18th and 19th Centuries (2023)
  31. Between Slavery and Indenture: Spatial practices, Materiality, and the Memory of Coercion on Sugar Plantations in Mauritius (2020)
  32. Between the Devil and the Deep Red Tape (2018)
  33. Between the dream and the conquest: settlement and daily life of the Portuguese in North Africa (15th-16th centuries) (2013)
  34. Between the Mythic and the Material: Texas Exceptionalism and Early Austin History (2017)
  35. Between the South Sea and the Mountainous Ridges: Coerced Assemblages and Biopolitical Ecologies in the Spanish Colonial Americas (2016)
  36. Between The Wars: The Peacetime Garrisons of Ticonderoga (2020)
  37. Between Urban Renewal and Rural Decline: Community Engagement and Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in Southern Idaho (2025)
  38. "Beware of All Houses Not Recommended": Sensory Experience and Commercial Success of a Nineteenth-Century Boston Brothel (2015)
  39. The Bewhiskered Germans of Jamestown: Bartmann Jugs from Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2023)
  40. "A Bewildering Variety" : A Material Culture Approach to Pearlware Hollow Forms (2015)
  41. Beyond Bacalao: Indigenous Seafaring and Adaptations in Response to the Transatlantic Fisheries (2023)
  42. Beyond Battlefields: Incorporating Social Contexts into Military Sites (2017)
  43. Beyond Change and Continuity, Beyond Historical Archaeology (2014)
  44. Beyond Data Collection and Hands-On Experience: The Importance and Effects of Engaging Students in Archaeological Research (2019)
  45. Beyond Diet: A Plethora of Plant Evidence from Middens at the Glen Eyrie Estate (2020)
  46. Beyond Guns, Soldiers, and Palisades: The Archaeology of Fort St. Joseph on the Frontier of New France (2014)
  47. Beyond Identification: Aviation Archaeology in the U.S. Navy (2014)
  48. Beyond Jane: A Tightly Dated Context of the Early Seventeenth Century (2014)
  49. Beyond material culture: virtual ship reconstruction (2013)
  50. Beyond Nicolas Cage and the "Book of Secrets": An Archaeological and Architectural Study of George Washington’s Cellar at Mount Vernon (2024)
  51. Beyond Publications, Exhibits, and Presentations: Twenty-first-century historical archaeology and the next generation of community engagement at the Nathan Harrison Site in San Diego County, California (2024)
  52. Beyond Sugar: Rethinking Caribbean Plantation Landscapes (2014)
  53. Beyond the Acropolis: Building Public Archaeology in Nashville, Tennessee (2025)
  54. Beyond the Age of Destruction – Remembering an Alternative Future at an Anti-nuclear Protest Camp (2020)
  55. Beyond the Bar: The Consumption of Alcohol in Productive Spaces (2018)
  56. Beyond the Battlefield: Diverse Perspectives on 1775 Charlestown, MA (2025)
  57. Beyond the Church: Rebuilding Trust with and within the First Baptist Church Descendant Community (2025)
  58. Beyond the Founding Fathers: The Role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Submerged Cultural Resource Management’s Past, Present, and Future (2022)
  59. Beyond the Gravestone: GIS-based Spatial Analysis of Historic Cemeteries (2025)
  60. Beyond the Mansion: How the Archaeology Program at a Plantation Museum Changed so Many Lives (2018)
  61. Beyond the Overseer’s House: Centering the Stories of the Enslaved Community at White Hill Plantation (2020)
  62. Beyond the pale: Inuit resistance to the Moravian reconstruction of northern Labrador (2014)
  63. Beyond the Patriarchy: A Feminine Examination of Montpelier's Shifting Landscape (2016)
  64. Beyond the seas: Rhenish stoneware from Louisbourg (Nova Scotia) (2023)
  65. Beyond the Site Boundary: Between Specific Sites and Expansive Narratives (2025)
  66. Beyond the Technical Report: Building public Outreach into Compliance-Driven Projects, A Case Study from Sandpoint Idaho (2016)
  67. Beyond the Vows: Living in Loneliness and Hidden Desires in Female Portugal Convents (2025)
  68. Beyond the Walls: An Examination of Michilimackinac's Extramural Settlement (2016)
  69. Beyond the Waters’ Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina. (2015)
  70. The Big Data History of Archaeology: How Site Definitions and Linked Open Data Practices are Transforming our Understanding of the Historical Past (2016)
  71. "Big Data" in the Nation’s Capital: Statistics and Storytelling with Washington, DC’s Archaeological Collections (2023)
  72. Big Data, Human Adaptation, and Historical Archaeology: Confronting Old Problems with New Solutions (2016)
  73. A Big Project for a Small Submarine: H.L. Hunley, Recovery, Conservation and Interpretation (2014)
  74. The bigger the cow the better she is’: new archaeological perspectives on livestock ‘improvement’ in late medieval and early modern England (2013)
  75. The Bimeler House Restoration: A Case Study in Historic Preservation and Research Archaeology, Zoar Village, Tuscarawas County, Ohio (2014)
  76. The bio-sedimentation as monitor element of underwater archaeological sites of Cascais Sea (Portugal). The case of Patrão Lopes military ship. (2016)
  77. Bioarchaeological and Archaeological Analysis of Human Remains from a Medical Waste Deposit at Point San Jose, San Francisco (2024)
  78. Bioarchaeological and Archival Investigations of the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery Collection: A Progress Report (2013)
  79. Bioarchaeological Evidence of the African Diaspora in Renaissance Romania (2016)
  80. A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Structural Violence in the Mid-Nineteenth Century San Francisco (2024)
  81. Bioarchaeological Triage: The Ethics and Logistics of a Salvage Project at Cypress Grove Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana (2025)
  82. Bioarchaeology of a Hospital Cemetery from the American Revolution: The Courtland Street Burying Ground, Lake George, New York (2025)
  83. Bioarchaeology of Burials Associated with the Elkins Site (7NC-G-174) (2016)
  84. Bioarchaeology of Mission San Antonio de Valero: Preliminary Results and Methodological Insights from the Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project (2025)
  85. The Bioarchaeology of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery Collection (51NE049), Washington, D.C. (2016)
  86. Biofilms, Biocolonization, and the Conservation of Marble from Submerged Archaeological Environments (2022)
  87. Biographies and the Beaudry Legacy (2022)
  88. Biographies of Things, People, and Space at Jesuit Missions: The St. Inigoes Manor Weaver’s House (2018)
  89. A Biography of Place: Thinking Between Texts and Objects at the Saint Joseph Mission (Senegal) (2018)
  90. The Biography of Spoliation As Insight Into the Role of Urban Fortification During the Levantine Crusader Era (2020)
  91. Biological Samples are Subject to Repatriation: Using NAGPRA as an Example Framework (2023)
  92. Biology of a Shipwreck: Dendrogyra Cylindrus on the 1724 Guadalupe Underwater Archaeological Preserve (2019)
  93. Biology of Shipwrecks in the Dominican Republic: How Submerged Cultural Resources Facilitate the Growth of Endangered and Threatened Coral Species (2023)
  94. Biotic Manifestations Of Identity In Barbuda: Trees Through Time, A Historical Landscape Approach (2025)
  95. The Bird-Houston Site, 1775-1920: 145 Years of Rural Delaware (2016)
  96. A Birds Eye View of War: The Role of Historic Maps and Aerial-Based Imagery in the Archaeological investigation of Unaccounted-For U.S. military Personnel. (2017)
  97. The BISC 2 Cargo (Part I)--Contributions and Questions from Ceramics Analysis: Late 18th Century Sequencing and Colonial Trade patterns (2013)
  98. The BISC 2 Cargo Part II--Prestige Cargo or Evidence of Colonial Dumping? An Exploration of What Key Items in BISC 2's Cargo of Ceramics May say About center/periphery trade relations in the Late North American British Empire (2013)
  99. Black and White and Red All Over: The Goodrich Steamer Atlanta, 1891-1906 (2017)
  100. The Black and White of It: Rural Tenant and African American Enslaved and Free Worker Life at the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site (2016)