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)
- City of Today, City of the Past: Permanencies of the Acequias’ Cultural Landscape in the Urban Pattern of San Antonio, Texas (2017)
- A Civil War Battlefield: Conflict Archaeology at Natural Bridge, Florida (2016)
- Civil War Behind Mission San Luis Obispo 1813-1823 (2024)
- Civil War Combat Trenching: What It Was and How to Find It (2016)
- Civil War On The Rio Grande: Examples Of Blockade-Runners From Vera Cruz To Galveston (2018)
- Claiming a House of Bondage: Examining Spatial Relationships of Domestic Slavery at Montpelier (2015)
- Clandestine, Ephemeral, Anonymous? Myths and Actualities of the Intimate Economy of a 19th-Century Boston Brothel (2017)
- Class and Status in the British Army at Fort Haldimand (1778–1784) (2015)
- A Class Apart. Shifting Attitudes about the Consumption of Fish (2018)
- Class Matters: The Historical Archaeology of Class in the American Experience (2013)
- Class, Ethnicity, and Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Tenement (2015)
- Classification Systems with a Plot: Vessel Forms and Ceramic Typologies in the Spanish Atlantic (2014)
- Classifying Small Things Recovered: Clinker And Slag From The Bellows Of Big Man Archaeology (2022)
- Clay Fingerprints: The Elemental Identification of Coarse Earthenwares from the Mid-Atlantic (2016)
- Clay pipe research in Newfoundland: What works, what doesn’t and what more can be done? (2014)
- Clay pipes in Swedish politics and economy, 1650-1850 (2014)
- Clay Tobacco Pipes From The Excavation Of The CSS Georgia (2020)
- Cleaning Submerged Artillery: Tools and Methods Used to Conserve Cannon from Blackbeard’s Flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (2017)
- Cleaning Up "A Blot On Civilization": Examining Archaeological Evidence Of The Medical And Scientific Regulation Of Midwifery During The Progressive Era (2019)
- "The Clear Grit of the Old District": Fire Company-Related Artifacts from Fishtown, Philadelphia (2016)
- Clifton Park Mansion Archaeology: Henry Thompson, Johns Hopkins, and the City of Baltimore, Maryland (2014)
- Climate Change and Heritage Issues in Coastal Sierra Leone: Centering Communities in Heritage Conservation and Management (2025)
- Climate change and maritime cultural heritage. Perspectives and methodologies of approach in the Island of Tierra Bomba, Cartagena de Indias. (2023)
- Climate Change and Textile Production During the Little Ice Age in Iceland and Greenland (2014)
- Close-Combat Handheld Weapons On Ships: 1400 - 1600 C.E. (2025)
- Closing Pandora’s Box: From Salvage Archaeology to In-Situ Preservation of Contact Period Aboriginal Sites in Ontario (2014)
- Closing Pandora’s Box: Examining The Long-Term Legacy Of Initiatives To Protect Cultural Heritage During Periods Of Armed Conflict. (2023)
- Closing the Gap: Using tDAR’s Data Integration Tool in Research (2016)
- Closing the Loop: The Civil War Battle of Honey Springs, Creek Nation, 1863 (2016)
- Clothing a Colony : Lead Seals from Early Jamestown (1607-1630) (2023)
- Clothing, if not called for within 30 days will be disposed of: The Material Culture of Death Forgotten at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2018)
- Clotilda: An Update on the Archaeological Investigations of the Last Known American Slave Ship (2023)
- Clusters of Beads: Testing for Time in an Eighteenth Century Well (2018)
- Clusters of Beads: Testing for Time on the Carolina Frontier c.1680-1734 (2016)
- Coal Camps in the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming: Effective Partnering between Archaeologists, State Agencies and Consulting Engineers (2018)
- Coal company towns as early American suburbs. An examination of standardized community construction in Appalachian work camps (2014)
- Coal Heritage Archaeology Project 2015 – Preliminary Results & Student Experiences (2016)
- Coal Mining and Multigenerational Punishment: Exploring Long-term Health Impacts in Coal Mining Communities (2020)
- Coal, Iron and Salt across the North Sea: technological transfer in the 'long Industrial Revolution' (2013)
- Coal-fired Power: Household goods, Hegemony, and Social Justice at Appalachian Company Coal Mining Towns (2017)
- Coan Hall: A pXRF Analysis of Lower Potomac River Valley Lithics (2025)
- Coastal Adaptations Implemented in Historic Chestnut Neck (2025)
- Coastal And Underwater Cultural Heritage Threatened By Climate Change: Where Are We And What Is Next? (2024)
- Coastal Boneyards: Derelict Vessels Becoming History Through Havoc (2024)
- Coastal Heritage At Risk Task Force-Raising Awareness of Climate Change through Collaboration (2023)
- Coastally Adapted: A Model for Eastern Coastal Paleoindian Sites (2020)
- Coca Cola Bottles From Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (2023)
- Cod Salted, an Essential Commodity of the French Sugar Colonies in the Colonial Period: Zooarchaeological Reality. (2023)
- A cod-awful smell: Novel evidence for fisheries management and land use at 17-18th century Ferryland and its social, economic, and sensorial implications (2015)
- Coding Community Conversations: Qualitative Data Analysis in Heritage Research (2025)
- Coffin Hardware from the Scott Cemetery: a comparison with the Freedman's Cemetery (2017)
- Cogs and Cane: The Evolution of Technology at a 19th Century Louisiana Sugar Mill (2015)
- A Coin In The Mast Step (2017)
- Coinage at French & Indian War Sites in Northern New York State (2017)
- “Coined” in the New World: The Conservation and Importance of Coins from a 1559 Spanish Colonization Shipwreck (2014)
- Coins In The Fountain: Finding Meaning in Everyday Votive Offerings (2017)
- The Coins of Deadwood, S. Dakota (2017)
- The Coins of Fort Atkinson: a study in numismatic archaeology. (2017)
- The Coins of Kam Wah Chung, John Day, Oregon: Persistence of Chinese Culture Reflected Through Non-Monetary Uses of Chinese coins. (2017)
- Coins on the Eyes of the Deceased: A Theoretical Perspective on a Creolized African-American Mortuary Practice (2024)
- Cold skin, warm socks? Remade and repurposed Burial Clothing in pre-modern northern Finland (2020)
- Coleraine, Co. Londonderry: Past and Present (2013)
- Collaborating with Carpenters: Historic House Care and Archaeology at Strawbery Banke Museum (2017)
- Collaboration and Mentorship (2023)
- Collaborative Archaeology As Punk Archaeology? Considerations From The Maya Region (2015)
- Collaborative Archaeology at the Gage and Cheney Houses (2013)
- Collaborative Archaeology of a Tejano Rancho in San Isidro, Starr County, Texas (2024)
- Collaborative Archaeology, Mothering, and the "Intimate Labor" of Making Place (2025)
- Collaborative Exhibit Design in Yucatán, Mexico, amid COVID-19 (2021)
- Collecting Ancient Fields: Adapting conflict archaeology to a Roman context. (2018)
- Collecting Sápmi - commodification and globalization of Sámi material culture (2014)
- Collections Crisis in the Nation’s Capital: Problems and Solutions for the Washington, D.C. Historic Preservation Office (2016)
- Collections Management at the National Park Service: The Interior Collections Management System User Satisfaction Survey (2016)
- Collective Action in Inter-Theoretical Perspective (2013)
- Collective Memory, Economic Growth, and Reverence: Recent Investigations at the Alamo (2024)
- Colonel Addison’s Plantation Revisited (2014)
- Colonial America Visits Colonial California: A Scenic Transfer-printed Vessel at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2018)
- Colonial Archaeology at a Regional Scale: Linking British and Spanish Settlements in Caribbean Coastal Honduras (2024)
- Colonial architecture from the Cartier-Roberval site (1541-1543), Cap Rouge, Quebec (2014)
- Colonial Brunswick Town: Archaeology of an Artificial Economy (2018)
- Colonial Cattle Economies (2025)
- Colonial Encounters and Colonial Economics: Entangled Pequot role shifting in 1620-1770 New England (2014)
- Colonial Encounters Reflected by the Contemporary Material Culture – Or What Happened When Miss Finland Wore a Sámi Clothing (2017)
- Colonial Encounters, Time and Social Innovation (2013)
- Colonial Foodways in Barbados: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes from Trent’s Plantation, 17th-19th centuries (2018)
- Colonial Forts in Archaeological Perspective (2023)
- Colonial Guyanese Ceramics: A Comparison Between the Production of Two Pottery Workshops (2014)
- Colonial Impact on Kanaka Maoli Diaspora and Dispersal (2018)
- The colonial landscapes of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, c.1602-1643 (2013)
- Colonial Quarantine: Spatialisation and materialisation at the North Head Quarantine Station in Sydney, Australia (2014)
- Colonial Stigma in ‘Post’-Colonial Archaeology (2017)
- Colonial Subsistence Strategies: Resource Use in English Charleston and Spanish St. Augustine (2014)
- The Colonial Village Site at Crown Point: French or English? (2014)
- Colonialism and Indigenous Diaspora in the American Northeast (2020)
- Colonialism and modernity in medieval (?) Iceland (2020)
- Colonialism and the 'Personality of Britain' (2016)
- Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the late pre-modern period (2014)
- Colonialism, Oral History, and Local Archaeology Experts in the Puuc Region, Yucatán, México (2021)
- Colonizers and Colonized: Indigenous Allies and the New Spanish Colonial Culture of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay, Florida (2023)
- Colonowares and Colono-kachinas in the Spanish-American Borderlands: Appropriation and Authenticity in Pueblo Material Culture, 1600-1950 (2016)