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. Action To Assess Threats To Maritime Cultural Heritage Sitescapes (2025)
  2. Action, Compromise, and Transformation: Mortuary Genealogies and Social Change in the Virgin Islands and Barbados (2014)
  3. Activist Archaeology and Participatory Action Research (PAR): Praxis in Action (2024)
  4. Adapting and Improvising: Materiality and the Politicization of Historic Structures (2021)
  5. Adapting to Colonial Reality with Long-term History: The Evolution of 17th Century Indigenous Households along the Rappahannock River, Virginia (2020)
  6. Adaptive Economics to Environmental and Political Changes at the Musgrove Cowpens and Trading Post (9CH137) (2025)
  7. An Adaptive Legacy: Repurposing Lighthouses from Navigational Aids to Heritage Tourism Destinations in North Carolina (2016)
  8. Adding and Subtracting: Manipulating Ceramic Manufacture to Signal Cultural Identity Among Indigenous Populations of the San Antonio Missions (2017)
  9. Adding Lasers to the Archaeological Toolkit: The Costs and Benefits of Terrestrial LiDAR in Digital Archaeology (2015)
  10. Additional Slave Settlements at Cannon’s Point Plantation (2019)
  11. Addressing Iron Sulfate and Sulfuric Acid Generation in Artifacts Treated with Silicone Oil (2024)
  12. Addressing Neglected Narratives Through The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission/Burgiyana, South Australia (2016)
  13. Addressing Sodium Carbonate Precipitation on a Cannon from the Alamo (2025)
  14. Addressing Structural Violence Through the Untold Life Histories of Marginalized Individuals Buried in San Francisco’s City Cemetery (2024)
  15. Admiring the Hush Arbor: Confronting Slavery in the American South (2019)
  16. aDNA in Historical Archaeology As A Tool For The Mitigation Of Climate Change Hazards (2016)
  17. The Adriatic Sea – Underwater Archaeology in Croatia (2013)
  18. Advanced Digital Modelling of the Newport Medieval Ship (2013)
  19. Advances In Laboratory and Field Use Of Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) and LASAR ABLATION-ICPMS (LA-ICP-MS) Technologies In Field Archaeological And Combined Survey Format (CSF) Surveys (2018)
  20. Advances in Technology, Transportation, and Tourism: Archaeological Manifestations of the Late 19th-Century Emergence of Nathan Harrison as a Destination (2020)
  21. Advances In the Uses of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF). Laser Ablation Induced Polarization-Mass Spectrography (LAICP-MS) and Infrared Studies of Plants and Soils to Discover and Map Deeply Buried Human and Animal Remains from Conflict, Massacre and Habitation Sites. (2020)
  22. Advancing Conservation Efforts Through Photogrammetry: Documenting At-Risk Cultural Coastal Resources in Barbuda (2025)
  23. Advancing interpretation of USS Monitor through digital reconstruction (2017)
  24. Advancing The Study Of Cultural Frontiers In Post-Medieval Ireland – Native Innovation In The Face Of Colonial Power (2017)
  25. Adventures in Archaeology: Summer 2019 Camp at the Forest Meeker Homestead (2020)
  26. The Advice You Were Looking For: The ACUA Mentorship Program Panel Discussion (2019)
  27. Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Benchmarking Survey Project, 2024 (2025)
  28. An Aerial Micro-Topographical Landscape Survey on Montserrat, West Indies (2017)
  29. Aerial Remote Sensing For Documenting Fur Trade ‘Cultural Landscapes’ (2021)
  30. "Africa" in Connecticut (2015)
  31. African American Burials and Memorials in Colonial Williamsburg (2016)
  32. The African American Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace: Bridging the Past and the Future (2016)
  33. African American Diaspora Archaeology and the National Park Service: Reflections on the Past and Goals for the Future (2016)
  34. African American History at Historic Fort Snelling: Analying Artifacts from the Officers' Quarters (2025)
  35. African American Life in Central Delaware, 1770-1940: Archaeology Combined with Documentary Research (2016)
  36. African American Military Arctic Encampment on the Alaska-Canada Highway: An Archaeological Investigation (2025)
  37. African American Resistance, Social Control, And The Spiritual Alteration Of The Physical Environment (2020)
  38. African Americans and NAGPRA: The Call for an African American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (2016)
  39. African Americans and the Western Timber Industry (2024)
  40. African Americans in a Dominican Cemetery: Social Boundaries of an Enclave Community (2013)
  41. African Americans, Resistance, and the Spiritual Alteration of the Physical Environment on the Levi Jordan Plantation, Brazoria County, Tx (2017)
  42. African Diaspora Archaeology "The Bocas Way" (2015)
  43. The African Diaspora in West Africa: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonial Eras on the Gambia River (2015)
  44. African Enslaved Women: A Gendered Perspective of Maritime Archaeology (2023)
  45. The African Friends to Harmony Burial Ground and Mutual Aid: Community Involvement Across Centuries (2022)
  46. African Friends to Harmony Burial Ground: The excavation and reinternment of 19th century African American subscription cemetery. (2022)
  47. African Habits: Archaeology of the Saint Joseph Mission, ca. 1863-1940 (Ngasobil, Senegal) (2020)
  48. African Mortuary Dreams in Alabama: A First Look at the Old Plateau/Africatown Cemetery Burial Patterns (2019)
  49. African Slave Spells and Root Work: Crossing the Boundary of Past to Present in Contemporary Cemeteries (2015)
  50. African-American Burial Practices and Community Identity, Cohesion, Social Resistance, and Autonomy in Ante-bellum Philadelphia (2022)
  51. African-American Foodways at Early American Plantations: A Comparative Zooarchaeology of Monticello and Montpelier (2020)
  52. African-American In-Ground Vaults: An Investigation Into Differential Burial Practices Identified Through A Public Archaeology Initiative (2016)
  53. Africans were not alone. A view over African experience and expression in relation to other ‘subaltern’ groups (2014)
  54. Afro-Brazilian Spaces of Worship: Late Nineteenth Century Archaeological Findings from Salvador, Bahia (2018)
  55. Afrodescendientes en el Ferrocarril del Norte: Memorias y Materialidad de Pueblos Fantasmas del Valle del Mira (Carchi - Ecuador) (2014)
  56. After Construction: Railroad Workers Living On The Central Pacific In The 1870s (2022)
  57. After Mose: Material Culture of British St. Augustine (1763-1784) as a Plantation Society and Periphery (2022)
  58. After the Flood Waters Recede: Memory, Abandonment, and Heritage on the Northeast Coast of Honduras (2023)
  59. After the Gear is Gone: Perspectives from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology on How Archaeologists Implement Digital Instances of Past Peoples and Scientific Concepts (2018)
  60. After the Golden Spike: Over 150 years of Maintenance and Preservation along the Promontory Branch of the Central Pacific Railroad Grade (2020)
  61. After the Railroad: An examination of Chinese in Sandpoint, Idaho (2017)
  62. After They Drove Old Dixie Down: Identity and Isolation in a Southwestern Oregon Mountain Refuge (2014)
  63. Afterlife Of Abandonment – Reanimating The Old Toppila Pulp Mill Silo With Zombie Metaphor (2023)
  64. Afterlives of Slavery on the Post-Emancipation Caribbean Plantation (2017)
  65. Afterworlds: Grief, Absence, Haunting, and Remembrance in Post-Tsunami Phuket (2024)
  66. Against All Odds: The British Siege and the Spanish Defense of Cartagena in 1741 and the Interpretation of Spanish Shipwrecks (2014)
  67. The Age of Consumption: A Study of Consumer (and Producer) Behavior and the Household (2013)
  68. Agency and Structure in Shipbuilding: Shipwrecks, Operational Process, Practice, and Social Learning Perspectives (2022)
  69. Agents, Africans and Agriculture: The Transplantation of British Nobility in Early Carolina (2014)
  70. Agricultural Practices in the Upper Casamance Region, Senegal, 7th-19th Centuries AD: Archaeobotanical Results from Payoungou and Korop (2018)
  71. Agriculture As Impetus For Culture Contact In Carolina During The 1670s (2016)
  72. Aiding Archaeological Site Interpretation through Soil Geochemistry (2016)
  73. Air As Therapy: Open-Air Treatment For Mental And Physical Disease 1890-1914 (2021)
  74. Air Sea Rescue Logbook Project: Analysis and Mapping of Rescue Missions and Reported Aircraft Losses from World War II, Europe (2022)
  75. Aircraft Crash Investigation: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Archaeological Study of Submerged Aircraft (2025)
  76. Aircraft Recovery for Education: Lessons Learned by The National Naval Aviation Museum. (2019)
  77. The Alamo Underground: Recent Excavations at Mission San Antonio de Valero (2018)
  78. Albania Ancient Shipwreck Project (2020)
  79. Albert’s Corset? A Queer Approach to Middle-Range Theory (2020)
  80. Alcohol and Drinking in Historical Archaeological Perspective (2013)
  81. The Alexandria Archaeological Protection Code: Managing Archaeology within the Framework of City Development (2017)
  82. Alien invasions: modernization and the dispersal of insect pests in Iceland (2014)
  83. All change down on the allotment: York’s allotment gardens and urban transition (2013)
  84. All Inclusive: an Archaeological Investigation and Material Analysis of Tabby Remains at Middle Place Plantation (9CH158), Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia (2017)
  85. All of the Above: Public Archeology and Outreach at Independence National Historical Park (2016)
  86. "All of Them Live in the Sea – and Die in the Sea": A Tale about the Amphibious Fishermen (2023)
  87. All That Once Glittered: Metallic Thread from the St. Mary’s Fort (2025)
  88. All The Single Ladies: Queering Race In The 19th Century Through The Materiality of African-American Female-Headed Households (2015)
  89. All the Small Things: An Analysis of Small Finds at James Madison’s Montpelier Plantation (2015)
  90. All the Small Things: Small Finds from the Home Farm Complex (2024)
  91. "All the Usual Improvements": Rediscovering the Plantation Landscape at James Monroe’s Highland (2018)
  92. "All The Usual Improvements": Understanding The Plantation Landscape At Ash Lawn-Highland (2016)
  93. All the Vaults of the City Cemeteries are Piled High with Coffins: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (2020)
  94. All the Yards a Market: Bones of Dissent and the Seed of Reproduction (2015)
  95. All Them Ditches: The Spanish Colonial Water Management System of San Antonio de Bexar (2017)
  96. "‘All this appears to be forgotten now’": Memory, Race, and Commemoration at Red Bank Battlefield (2022)
  97. All was left in complete order: a first look at the wreck of HMS Erebus (2016)
  98. ‘Allah the Divider’ was Lost in the Public House: A Pocketknife with Arabic Inscriptions from Colonial Brunswick Town (2014)
  99. Allensworth: An Archaeological Exploration of Health Management (2020)
  100. Alles Vergeht, Alles Verweht: Orphaned Heritage of Denmark’s Atlantic Wall. (2020)