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)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 3,701-3,800 of 6,639)
- Documents (6,639)
- Main Street Merchants: The Lost Chinese Stores of The Dalles, Oregon (2022)
- Maine Midden Minders: Racing the Clock to Document Cultural and Environmental Archives (2020)
- Maintaining All Things Great and Small: Tools Aboard Queen Anne’s Revenge (2021)
- Maintaining the boundary: the archaeology of the Ìjẹ̀bú Kingdom’s discovery of the British Empire (2023)
- Maize, Mast, and Other Plant Resources from the Late Prehistoric and Contact Period North Carolina Piedmont (2020)
- Make Context Great Again: Reconnecting Context with the Archaeological Record (2021)
- "Making a Box Worthy of a Sleeping Beauty": Burial Container Surface Treatments in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2020)
- Making a New World Together: The Atlantic World, Afrocentrism, and Negotiated Freedoms between Enslaver and Enslaved at Kingsley Plantation (Fort George Island, Florida), 1814-1839. (2013)
- Making an Alsatian Texas: World-Building, Materiality, and Storytelling in the Castro Colonies of Medina County (2017)
- Making Do Outside a Consumer Culture: Pragmatics and Creativity in a Great Depression-era Gold Mining Camp in Northern Nevada, USA (2013)
- Making Do With So Very Little: A Consultant’s Look at Homestead Archaeology in Eastern Alberta (2014)
- Making Ends Meet in 19th Century New Mexico (2015)
- Making Food, Making Middens, and Making Communities: Exploring the Effects of Cooking and Trash Disposal on a Virginia Plantation (2019)
- Making Historical Archaeology Visible: Experiences in Digital (and Analog) Community Outreach in Arkansas (2013)
- Making it Matter -- Public Archeology and Outreach to Diverse Communities in Baltimore (2016)
- Making Labrador Home: Concerns and Considerations of How We Think About the Thule in Labrador, Canada (2014)
- Making Labwork Work: Creative Strategies for Teaching & Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
- Making Museum Collections More Accessible: Digital Archives and Data at the Florida Museum of Natural History (2022)
- Making Place in the Capitalocene: The Toxic Legacies of Mill Creek Ravine (2018)
- Making the Absent Present: Forgetting and Remembering the African American Past in Putnam County, Indiana (2020)
- Making the Call: Identifying U.S. Navy Wrecks from Third-Party Data (2022)
- Making the Case for the Parkin Site as Casqui: Hernando de Soto's 1541 Cross (2017)
- Making the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) a Usable Resource (2016)
- Making The Exotic Mundane: The Manila Galleon, The Flota, And Globalization (2017)
- Making the Frontier Home: Stories from the Steamboat Bertrand (2017)
- Making the Inaccessible Accessible: Public Archaeology at a 19th-Century Bathhouse in Alexandria, Virginia (2016)
- Making the Invisible Visible: Interpreting Archaeological Sites and Landscapes for the Public (2020)
- Making the Invisible Visible: Interpreting the Plantation Landscape at James Madison’s Montpelier (2015)
- Making the Invisible Visible: LiDAR and the hidden sites of Plantation labor (2020)
- Making The Jamestown Video (2017)
- Making the Most of Field Schools: Education, Training, and Experiential Learning in Historical Archaeology (2019)
- Making the Most of Opportunities in 3D Visualization (2019)
- Making Time for Tea(wares): Slow Archaeology, Enslaved Life, and the Poetics of Consumption (2020)
- Making Urban Archaeology Municipal: Mapping Archaeological Sensitivity in Richmond, Virginia (2018)
- Making Waste Singular: The Ecological Life of Industrial Waste in Mill Creek Ravine (2019)
- Making Waves: sea, art and archaeology (2023)
- Making Whiteness: White Creole Masculinity at the 18th-Cenutry Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies (2016)
- Making Women: Gender, Sexuality, and Class at an Early Twentieth Century Women’s Retreat (2015)
- Malleable Minds: The Importance of Flexibility in Developing Research Designs (2016)
- Mallows Bay, The Ghost Fleet and Beyond (2017)
- A Mammoth Question: Can We Count the First Floridians Among the First Americans? (2018)
- Management and Mitigation Along the Iditarod National Historic Trail (2019)
- The Management of Neglect (2013)
- Managing change on UK wreck sites through community-based recording: The London recording project (2013)
- Managing England’s Protected Wreck Sites (2013)
- Managing Missteps: Complications with Marine Magnetometer Surveys and Data Interpretation (2017)
- Managing submerged prehistory; New Approaches in the Southern North Sea. (2013)
- Managing the archaeological heritage of Historical Flanders: medieval and early modern archaeology in a development-led context (2014)
- Manasota Key Offshore: A Prehistoric Cemetery in the Gulf of Mexico (2018)
- Manifest Disease: An Analysis of Pioneer and Tribal Cemeteries in Early Washington (2015)
- The Manifestation of Puritan Ideology at 17th-century Harvard College (2013)
- Manifestations of Identity: Materiality, Meaning & Mediation in Early Modern & Contemporary Ireland. (2020)
- Manifestations of institutional reform and resistance to reform in Ulster workhouses, Ireland, 1838-1855. (2013)
- Manipulating Nostalgic Discourse at the Casas Museu da Taipa of Macau (2014)
- The Manor Houses Of George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore, In Ireland And North America, The Opening Of An Atlantic World (2020)
- Mantelpieces and the Homemaking: Exploring memory through the small and ordinary, 20th century, Ireland (2023)
- The Many Face(t)s Of the Bartmann Jug (2023)
- The Many Functions And Meanings of Flora Within The Lives of Two American Immigrant Families (2016)
- Many Remedies to Choose From: Social Relationships and Healing in an Enslaved Community (2016)
- Mapping 1777 Chester County: Harnessing Today’s Technologies to Better Understand the Past (2022)
- Mapping Gloucestertown (2018)
- Mapping God's Little Acre: Digital Documentation of Newport's Colonial African Burial Ground (2023)
- Mapping maritime cultural landscapes of the French inshore salt-cod fishery, Petit Nord, Newfoundland, 1500-1904 (2014)
- Mapping Maroon Territory: Implications for Amazonian Archaeology (2020)
- Mapping Memories and Digging the Past in Freetown (2020)
- MAPPING MEMORIES OF FREETOWN: the Meanings of a Native American House in a Black Neighborhood (2018)
- Mapping Minisink: An Ambiguous Center in New Netherland (2022)
- Mapping Missions: Visualizing the Cultural Landscapes of 18th Century Spanish Mission Communities in St. Augustine (2022)
- Mapping Near-Historical Climate Impacts to Coastal Sites (2016)
- Mapping Settler Colonialism: The Cartography of the Rogue River War, 1855-56 (2020)
- Mapping Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary War: 1778 Battle of Chestnut Neck, New Jersey. (2020)
- Mapping Spaces of Care, Resistance, and Resiliency at Tuberculosis Sanatorium Sites (2020)
- Mapping Spanish Settlement at Santa Elena (1566-1587): An Integrated Archaeogeophysical Approach (2019)
- Mapping the African American Past: a Model of Collaboration for Public Archaeologies. (2013)
- Mapping the Archaeology of Slavery in the Hudson River Valley (2016)
- Mapping the Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (2015)
- Mapping The Land God Made In Anger: Conducting A Rapid, But Thorough Survey Of Namibia’s Forbidden Zone (2016)
- Mapping The Maritime Frontier: The Development Of Aids To Navigation, Risk Mitigation And The Maritime Frontier Of The Florida Keys. (2017)
- Mapping the Mines, Part 1: Terrestrial LiDAR (2018)
- Mapping the Mines, Part 2: UAS Application (2018)
- Mapping the Path to Preservation: Integrating community and research at the Newtown and Chemung Battlefields (2016)
- Mapping the Sacramento River in 1837 (2018)
- Mapping the Shorescape: Developing a Holistic Approach to Assessing Storm Damages to North Carolina’s Maritime Legacies (2022)
- Mapping Town Formation: Precision, Accuracy, and Memory (2013)
- The Maqamat Ship: Context and Comparison of the Iconic Arab Manuscript Painting (2020)
- Mare Cyprium: Multimedia Applications for Cypriot Maritime Cultural Heritage (2023)
- Mare Necessities? Jamestown’s Equestrian Artifacts as a Study in Optimistic Over-Packing (2023)
- The MarEA Project: A Methodology to Identify and Monitor Morocco’s At-risk Coastal Heritage (2023)
- Marginalization Through Management: The Impacts of Irish Nationalism and Cultural Identity on Archaeological Sites and Landscapes (2014)
- Marginalizing the Native: An Exploration of the Influence of Alcohol on Native-French Politics during the 17th-19th Century Fur Trade (2015)
- Marine Art as a Research Tool for Investigating Cask Assemblages Found on Eighteenth Century Shipwrecks Identified as Slave-Trade Ships (2023)
- Marine Turtle Consumption at the 17th Century Site of Port Royal, Jamaica (2017)
- Mariners' Maladies: Examining Medical Equipage From The Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck (2015)
- Mariners’ gravestones in the Irish Sea region: memory and identity (2016)
- Maritime Archaeology and Slave Shipwrecks in Mauritius (2023)
- Maritime Archaeology and the Slave Trade Towards a Transformative Disciplinary Engagement Reflections from the Slave Wreck’s Project (2023)
- Maritime Archaeology at Gdan’sk urban sites (2014)
- Maritime Archaeology in Albania: Connecting the Dots Along an Overlooked Coastline (2015)
- Maritime Archaeology in the port of Acapulco: latest research (2020)
- Maritime Archaeology in West Africa: the Central Region Project in Ghana and Updates on Maritime Research at Elmina (2014)