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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- Changes and Choices in Heiltsuk Consumption of Euro-American Goods at Old Bella Bella, BC, 1833-1899 (2015)
- Changes in animal use in the Modern Period of Portugal (2013)
- Changes in Bone Density During the Post-Mortem Interval for the Individuals of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
- Changes in the structure of village settlement in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods in South Bohemia as a result of transformations in land use systems (2013)
- Changing Attitudes and Approaches to Shipwreck Archaeology in the Caribbean (2018)
- Changing conceptions of significance, importance, and value—moving beyond the "research exception" in Section 106 archaeology (2016)
- Changing Courses, Changing Fortunes: An Historical And Archaeological Exploration Of A Mississippi River Boomtown (2018)
- The Changing Face of Manhattan: From Forested Hills to City Hall Park (2014)
- The changing fiscal landscape of early nineteenth-century New England: State-chartered banks and the access to capital (2014)
- Changing foodways as a reflection of identity in a 19th-century Upper Canada household: the Ashbridge Estate in Toronto (2014)
- Changing Hands: The Impact of Antiquated Acquisitions and Legacy Loans on Archeological Collections (2024)
- Changing Identity and Foodways in Colonial New Mexico (2020)
- The Changing Landscape of Indian Camp, a piedmont Virginia plantation (2014)
- Changing Landscapes: Challenges and Approach to Investigating World War II Casualties in the Southwest Pacific (2025)
- The Changing Shape of Chickasaw-European Battlefield Narratives (2020)
- Changing Systems of Labor and the (Re)Production of Identity (2014)
- Changing Times, Changing Tastes: A Comparison of 18th and 19th Century Consumption Patterns at James Madison's Montpelier (2019)
- Characterizing the Deceased Mariners of the Swedish Warship Vasa: An Analysis of Personal Possessions Found in Association with Human Remains (2018)
- Charcoal Burners on the Pancake Range: Charcoal Production in Eastern Nevada during the late 19th century (2014)
- Charity and Integration: the Archaeology of Jewish Soup Kitchens (2013)
- Charles Aubert sites and the ports of Québec during the XVIIth century (2014)
- Charles K. Landis: the Archaeology of the Macro- and Micro-Aspects of Creativity (2013)
- Charles Orser and his Contributions to the Brazilian Historical Archaeology (2019)
- Charleston, South Carolina and Beyond (2018)
- Charleston’s Walled City Project: Collaboration and Collegiality with Martha Zierden (2022)
- Charlottes, Commies, and China Dishes: The Abundance of Children’s Toys from The Hermitage (2018)
- Charting Intention: Place and Power on Virginia’s Earliest Maps (2017)
- Charting the Paleo-Pensacola: Investigating Pensacola Bay for Submerged Precontact Landforms (2025)
- Chasing Rabbits: Investigating Domesticated Leporids at Jefferson’s Monticello (2020)
- Chasing the Gradient: A New Diver-Held Tool for Locating Buried Shipwreck Remains in Magnetically Challenging Environments (2020)
- Chawan and Yunomi: Japanese Tablewares Recovered from Three Issei Communities in the American West (2017)
- Che Research at the Nexus Between History and Prehistory (2014)
- Cheap ROV-based Photogrammetry Survey Methodology (2023)
- Chebacco: The Boat that Built Essex (2018)
- Checking In: An Examination of the Pend d'Oreille Hotel (2018)
- Chemical Analysis Of Artifacts Related To The Chinese Diaspora In The American West (2022)
- Chemical Analysis of Small Sealed Metal Containers from the Harrison Site (2020)
- Chemical Mapping in Marine Archaeology: Defining Site Characteristics from Passive Environmental Sensors. (2017)
- The Chemical Secrets of the Middens (2020)
- Chemists to Cowboys: Labour Identity in Corporate Agriculture in the San Emigdio Hills, California (2016)
- The Chena Townsite, a Gold Rush Settlement in Interior Alaska (2022)
- The CHERISH Toolkit: Investigating Heritage and Climate Change in Coastal and Maritime Environments. Case Studies from Wales and Ireland. (2023)
- Cherokee Community Coalescence in East Tennessee (2018)
- "Cherry-Picking" the Material Record of Border Crossings: Artifact Selection and Narrative Construction Among Non-Migrants (2015)
- Chesapeake Flotilla: America’s Defense of the Bay (2017)
- Chicago’s Gray House as Underground Railroad Station?: Narrating Resistance, 1856-present (2018)
- A Chicana Archaeology of the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico (2020)
- ‘Chicken Bones and Bags of Dirt’: Virginia’s Survey to Discover What’s Stored Where and Why (2014)
- Chicken Toes and Dominoes: Dining and Recreation at Shirley Heights Fort in Antigua, West Indies (2020)
- The Chico Chinese: A Story of Chinese Exclusion (2019)
- Chief Corner Stones: Expressions of Choice and Resistance in the AME Zion Church (2024)
- Chiefs and Commandants: Fort Tombecbé and "the Glory of France" in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Gulf South (2023)
- The Children at 2925 Richmond Street and the Parents that Raised Them (2022)
- The Children of the Ludlow Massacre: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities. (2016)
- The Children's Frontier: The Relationship Between the American Frontier Perspective and the Material Culture of Children (2016)
- Chinatown 1868 to 1920: Rock Springs, Wyoming (2017)
- Chinese Brown Glazed Stonewares from CA-MNT-104 H and Stanford University’s ACLQ (2020)
- A Chinese Camp in Nevada’s Cortez Mountains (2017)
- A Chinese Coin and Flaked Glass: The Unrecorded History of Smith Cove (2016)
- Chinese Diaspora Cuisine And Health (2022)
- Chinese Immigrant Life in late-19th-century San Jose, California: Macroremains from Market Street Chinatown (2016)
- The Chinese Massacre in Rock Springs, Wyoming and the Archaeological Evidence for the Movement of People affected by this event from 1885 to 1927 (2020)
- A Chinese porcelain Sherd of the Transitional Period found in New Mexico (2020)
- The Chinese porcelains from the port of San Blas, Mexico (2018)
- Chinese Railroad Grade Interments In Utah (2024)
- Chinese Railroad Worker Interments in Nevada and Utah, 1868-1869 (2023)
- Chinese Railroad Workers At Central Pacific Stations Ca. 1870s-1880s (2016)
- Chinese Railroad Workers in Utah: Connecting Past to Present (2020)
- Chinese Railroad Workers in Wyoming and Mongolia, 1890-1955 (2015)
- Chinese Trade Networks and Material Culture’s Role in Cultural Change and Continuity around the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century (2014)
- A Chip off the Old Brick: Investigating a Nineteenth-Century Brick Kiln in West Tennessee (2025)
- The Chocolatera on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Insights into Global Foodways and Economics (2014)
- Choose Your Own Adventure: Navigating Archaeological Career Trajectories in Different Employment Sectors (2025)
- Åcho’ Atupat:Slingstone Caches of the Mariana Islands (2024)
- Christchurch: The Most English of New Zealand's Cities? (2016)
- Christian Conversion and the Emergence of Local Political Economies in 11th Century Iceland (2023)
- Christopher Columbus, New Seville And The Taino Village Of Maima In Jamaica (2016)
- A Chronicle of the Historic Military Railroad Corridor at Fort Belvoir (Camp A.A. Humphreys) (2020)
- The Chronicles of Storage and Everyday Ceramics: A Comparative Analysis of Pottery from Captive African and African American House Sites in Western Tennessee (2023)
- Chronologies of English Ceramic Ware Availability in the 17th-Century Potomac River Valley (2018)
- Chuck’s Stomping Grounds and Historical Archaeology’s Haunts: Or, How Charles Orser’s Work Haunts Me (2019)
- Church Burials at Risk? Research Ethics and Preservation of Cultural Heritage (2023)
- Church mummies in the northern Ostrobothnia, Finland (2015)
- The Church on the Hill: Inter-related Narratives and Conflicting Priorities for the Emory Church Property in Washington, D.C. (2017)
- The Church on the Hill: Inter-related Narratives, Conflicting Priorities, and the Power of Community Engagement (2016)
- Chérrepe in Fragments: Time, Place and Representation in Andeanist Historical Archaeology (2014)
- Cidade Velha (Cape Vert) - Africans and Europeans in an Atlantic city. (2013)
- The Circle of Trees: a Component of the Greensky Hill Methodist Mission Church Landscape (2018)
- The circulation of college crockery in Cambridge, England, c.1760-1950: an urban archaeological tracer dye? (2013)
- Cities on the Move – An Introduction and Retrospective (2025)
- Cities, Seas, and Forests: Legacies of Timber and Agriculture in Chesapeake Port Cities (2024)
- Citizen Science and the Selfish Archaeologist (2018)
- Citizen Science as An Evolving Process: Veteran and Veteran Family Underwater Archaeology Programming (2022)
- Citizen Science in Saipan: Engaging an Island Community (2024)
- Citizens Under Arms: Archeological observations on the American Revolution (2013)
- City Formation in the Nineteenth Century Eastern United States: Asheville, North Carolina as an Example of Urban Formation Processes in the Margin. (2013)
- The City In the Valley, The Houses On the Hill: Brothels In the Landscape of an Affluent Mountain Mining Town (2024)
- "The city is my home": homelessness as resistance to institutionalisation (2013)
- The City of Boston Archaeology Program: Community Empowerment at the Confluence of Urban Planning and Preservation (2025)
- The City of Lévis: Linking urban planning with heritage (2014)