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 •
Slavery •
Colonialism •
Public Archaeology •
Ceramics •
Identity •
Plantation •
Material Culture •
Shipwrecks
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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- Envisioning Logging Camps as Site of Social Antagonsim in Capitalism: An Anishinaabe Example from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. (2020)
- Ephemeral Urban Structures and the Archaeology of Homelessness (2019)
- Epitaphs, paternalism, and post-mortem resistance of African and African Americans in colonial New England (2022)
- "Equal to a Little Gold Mine": A Preliminary Study of the Grocers of Early Port Richmond, 1842-1865 (2022)
- Equitable Water Access for Detroiters in the Early 20th Century (2020)
- Erasing Lines of Class and Color in Storyville(s), New Orleans (2019)
- Erasing Religious Boundaries in a Frontier South Carolina Parish (2017)
- Erosion and Sedimentation at a 19th-century Farmstead (2016)
- eScience – a New Developing Paradigm for Archaeologists? (2013)
- Espionage And United Fruit: An Analysis of the SS San Pablo Using 3-D Modeling And Photogrametry (2017)
- Essential Hardware: An Analysis of Vasa’s Rigging and Gun Tackle Blocks (2018)
- Establishing Community: Post-Civil War Placemaking in Rural Tennessee (2019)
- Estate Bellevue: A Study of a Small-Scale Caribbean Cotton Plantation (2019)
- Estate Bellevue: Archaeology of an Eighteenth Century Cotton Estate, St. Jan, Danish West Indies (2016)
- "Etched in Bone": The Forensic Taphonomy of Undocumented Migration in the Sonoran Desert (2015)
- Ethical issues at Loyola’s settlement, French Guyana: digging up a dark history (2014)
- Ethical Issues In The Study And Preservation Of Early Modern Church Burials Of Northern Finland (2017)
- Ethical practice, digital technologies and historical archaeology in NSW, Australia. (2013)
- Ethics In A Small Town: Columbia Street Cemetery Project In Springfield, Ohio (2020)
- The Ethics of Archaeological Work in a Historical Cemetery (2020)
- ‘Ethics’ bedrock is the practice of ethics’: some considerations on ethics in Italian archaeology (2014)
- Ethiopia and the Politics of Representation in Local, National, and Privately-funded Museums (2017)
- Ethnic Chinese at Central Pacific Railroad Maintenance Camps (2015)
- Ethnic Identity And The San Francisco Bay Waterfront During The Mid To Late 19th Century (2015)
- Ethnic Markers and Comparative Approaches to the Asian Diaspora (2017)
- Ethnoarchaeological Analysis Internet Use During Covid-19 (2021)
- The Ethnoarchaeology of COVID-19: A Viral Snapshot (2021)
- ETHNOBOTANICAL TRACES AND DOMESTIC SPACES: INVESTIGATIONS OF A CONTACT-ERA FARMSTEAD IN THE COLONIAL SOUTHEAST. (2013)
- Ethnography in the Unit: Archaeology As Elicitation (2018)
- An Ethnomicrobiology Case Study from Seventeenth-Century Shipboard Food Made Using Experimental Archaeology (2018)
- Euro-Native Interaction in 17th Century Montreal: Contributions from a pluralistic approach (2014)
- Europe and the New Worlds of the Americas (2014)
- European Contact on the Maritime Peninsula (2014)
- European Cultural Landscapes in Manitoba - an Interethnic Perspective (2014)
- European Influences in Ancient Hawaii (2015)
- European occupation and its impact on local lifestyle: discussing architectural transformations in 20th-century sites in Argentinean Patagonia. (2013)
- European Style Pottery Making in South Carolina: 1565-1825 (2016)
- Evaluating Co-Creative Cultural Heritage Projects in Rural Communities in Ancash, Peru. (2018)
- Evaluating Environments and Economies: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Study of the Eastern Pequot (2016)
- Evaluating the Brass Pin Wreck as a Cultural and Biological Resource Within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (2022)
- Evaluating the Chronology of the Joiner’s Shop in a Changing Monticello Landscape (2015)
- Evaluating the Sensys MagDrone R3 Aerial Magnetometer System (2020)
- Evanston Chinatown A Look At Food-ways And Diversity (2018)
- The Everett Site (11S801): An Early American Period Farmstead in Shiloh Valley Township, St. Clair County, Illinois (2014)
- The Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey: Integrating Sciences and the Humanities, OralHistories and Documents, and Material Culture and Community Collaboration (2022)
- Every Nook and Cranny: Short-term Residences For Enslaved Laborers (2015)
- "Everybody Knows Remmey:" Analysis of a Stoneware Kiln Waste Deposit Recovered along I-95 in Philadelphia. (2016)
- Everyday Archaeology on the Navajo Nation (2017)
- Everyday life at Champs Paya: the case study of a French migratory, male-only, cod fishing room in northern Newfoundland (2013)
- Everyone Was Black in the Mines: Exploring the Reasons for Relaxed Racial Tensions in Early West Virginia Coal Company Towns. (2015)
- "Everything left in perfect order": HMS Investigator’s Material Culture (2013)
- Evidence for Sixteenth Century Exchange: the Ottawa and Upper St. Lawrence Waterways (2014)
- Evidence of a Lost Cause, Fire, and Great Migration all Bound-Up in Redlines: A Century-and-a-Half of Archaeological Evidence from Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood (2021)
- Evidence of Frontier Commerce Along the Mississippi River in Eastern Missouri and Western Illinois (2019)
- Evidence of Perimortem Trauma and Taphonomic Damage in a WWI Soldier from Romania (2016)
- Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Archaeological Investigation of Abandoned and Redeveloped Cemeteries in New York City (2018)
- The Evolution and Role of Avocationals in Underwater Archaeology (2015)
- The evolution from fortified to country house in Ireland (2013)
- The Evolution Of African American Settlement On A Georgia Plantation (2015)
- The Evolution of Mortuary Artifact Assemblages from Historic Cemeteries in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States (2023)
- The Evolution of Public Interpretation: Instagram, Promotion, and the Passive Narrative (2018)
- The evolution of the sugar industry in French Guiana from the 17th century to the 19th century (2013)
- The Evolutionary Development of Technology in Archaeology: An Open Discussion (2018)
- Evolutions: Reflections of Cultural and Social Change at a Lighthouse Community. (2017)
- Evolving engagement: Finding a home for non-profit public archaeology in western North Carolina (2018)
- Evolving Landscapes Of The Mackall And Brome Plantations In St. Mary’s City, Maryland. (2023)
- Evolving Native American Participation in the Excavation and Interpretation of a Tutelo Site in Ithaca, New York (2018)
- Evolving Partnerships for Underwater Aircraft Research and Survey (2020)
- Evolving Tools for Public Maritime Archaeology: From Photoshop to Photogrammetry in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (2018)
- Exacerbating Divisions: Facemasks and COVID-19 (2021)
- An Examination of Dietary Differences between French and British Households of Post-Conquest Canada (2014)
- An Examination of Enslaved African Domestic and Labor Environments on St. Eustatius (2018)
- An Examination of Limited Variability and High Frequency Repetition in Large Faunal Deposits at the National Constitution Site (2020)
- An Examination of Mashantucket Pequot Social Activities and Identity Around the Turn of the Nineteenth-Century Through On-Reservation Ceramic Assemblages (2014)
- Examination of Metal Materials of Port Royal, Jamaica (2023)
- An Examination of Possible Mass Burials in Pensacola, Florida’s Historic St. Michael’s Cemetery (2014)
- An Examination Of Sanitation And Hygiene Habit Artifacts Found aboard Vasa: Health, Sanitation, and Life At Sea In Seventeenth-Century Sweden (2016)
- An Examination of Viking Age Harbors and Trade (2023)
- Examining African-American Burial Choices through Jewelry at Freedman’s Cemetery, Dallas, Texas 1869-1907 (2014)
- Examining Cemetery Investigations At The First Presbyterian Church Of Elizabeth And First Reformed Dutch Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey: A Discussion Of Remembrance and Regulation (2016)
- Examining Child Mortality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Northern Idaho (2018)
- Examining Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century New York City through Patent Medicines (2016)
- Examining Economic Agency within the Colonial Economy: Chemical and Isotopic Analysis of Glass Trade Beads and Lead Shot from 18th Century Pensacola (2020)
- Examining Golden Age Pirates as a Distinct Culture Through Artifact Patterning (2016)
- Examining History and Material Practice at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2020)
- Examining identity and personhood in the archaeological record: A case study from the Chief Richardville House (12AL1887) (2014)
- Examining identity and personhood in the archaeological record: A case study from the Chief Richardville House (12AL1887) (2014)
- Examining Lynx and Pride of Baltimore II as Material Culture (2015)
- Examining Mandan and Arikara Agricultural Production at Fort Clark in the Fur Trade Era (2017)
- Examining nineteenth century British colonial-built ships, HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox: two case studies from New Zealand (2021)
- Examining Racialized Space: Understanding Free Communities Of Color Through Property Records (2020)
- Examining Racist Policy through Plantation Landscapes at Montpelier (2021)
- Examining Segregation between Chinese and Euroamerican Railroad Workers at the Townsite of Terrace Using Spatial Modeling (2020)
- Examining the landscape of enculturation at Euro-American Children’s Homes (Orphanages) and Native American Boarding Schools (2016)
- Examining Wangunk-Hollister Interactions Through Analysis of the Colonial Landscape and Indigenous Pottery (2018)
- Examining Wealth and Technology of the Palmer Family at Glen Eyrie (2020)
- Excavating a French Regime icon in the St. Lawrence, 1759: The Maréchal de Senneterre? (2014)
- Excavating Acapulco. Archaeology at the fortress of San Diego. (2017)
- Excavating an Ephemeral Assemblage: An Archaeology of American Hoboes in the Gilded Age (2016)
- Excavating an Excavator: Gerhard Bersu, his networks, and linking past and present (2013)