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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- The Maritime Archaeology of a Slave Ship: Searching the Ship Camargo - Angra dos Reis - Brazil (2023)
- Maritime archaeology of oil tanker shipwrecks from World War II (2019)
- The Maritime Archaeology of Slave Ships: Overview, Assessment and Prospectus (2016)
- Maritime Archaeology on Middle Georgia Rivers, USA (2013)
- Maritime Archaeologyical and HIstorical Society (MAHS) Training For Recreational Divers (2022)
- Maritime Conservation Area Model for Underwater Archaeology Preservation in Morotai, Indonesia (2014)
- A Maritime Context For Richmond And Environs; Assessment And Recommendations For Future Study (2016)
- The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Bluefields Bay, Jamaica (2020)
- The Maritime Cultural Landscape of California’s Sonoma Coast Doghole Ports (2019)
- Maritime Cultural Landscapes Of São Tomé And Príncipe - The Results Of A Field Mission (2023)
- Maritime Cultural Landscapes of the Slave Trade in Lagos, Portugal (2023)
- Maritime Dvāravatī and the South China Sea from an Integrated Perspective of Ship Archaeology (2023)
- Maritime Heritage at Risk: The Hurricane Irma Damage Assessment and Mitigation Strategy (HIrmaDAMS) Project (2022)
- Maritime Heritage Management in the Face of Climate Change Impacts: Lessons from the Spring Break Wreck (2019)
- The maritime heritage questionnaire - abridged results (2014)
- Maritime Heritage Stewardship in Virginia (2020)
- Maritime Heritage Trail Histories and Public Engagement in Cultural Resource Management: Biscayne National Park (2021)
- Maritime Imagery of the Amalfi Coast, a Pilot Study (2023)
- Maritime Landscape and Nautical Technology in North-Patagonia: ongoing research on historical shipwrecks (2020)
- Maritime Legacy: Blood and Water, Before and After Columbus Made Camp in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica (2023)
- Maritime Stewards of the Bahamas: The Highbourne Cay Experiment (2018)
- Maritime Survey Results of La Soye Bay (2023)
- The Maritime Taskscape Of An Enslaved Community (2021)
- MaritimeArchaeology.com: A community-based platform for underwater archaeology (2015)
- Marked on the Landscape: The African American Experience at Clover Bottom Plantation (2016)
- Markers of Difference or Makers of Difference?: Approaches to Atypical Practices on Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Sites (2014)
- The Market on the Edge: Production, Consumption, and Recycling in Winter Houses of Transhumant Euro-Newfoundlanders (2016)
- Market Square Town Excavations in Turku, Finland, in 2018-2022 (2023)
- Markets, Churches, Piers, & Foundries: Some of the Patterns of Everyday Life in Late-19th-Century San Francisco. (2016)
- Marking Presence, Passage and Place at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney (2013)
- Marking the Unmarked: The Confluence of Community Archaeology and Ground Penetrating Radar at the Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground, Bronx, NY (2018)
- Marley Brown, the Golden Horseshoe, and African Diaspora Archaeology (2015)
- Marley Brown: The View From Maryland (2015)
- The Marley R. Brown School of Archaeology or the Hero’s Quest in California (2015)
- Marley, Polly, and Me: Reflections on Archaeology and Social Relations (2015)
- Maroon Archaeology beyond the Americas: A View from Kenya (2019)
- Maroons And The Underground Railroad In The Great Dismal Swamp During The Antebellum (2015)
- MARS: A Unique Place for Storing Archaeological Collections (2014)
- The MARTA Archaeological Collection: An Example Of An Innovative Cross-Disciplinary Project (2016)
- Mary Beaudry’s Legacy: A View from Historic St. Mary’s City (2022)
- Mary C. Beaudry: Life, Career, and Contributions to Historical Archaeology (2022)
- Mary C. Beaudry: The Missing Virginia Years, 1972 to 1980 (2022)
- Mary Rests Upon the Hill: A Glimpse of 1845 From the Outskirts of Early Atlanta (2019)
- The Mary Rose: The Legacy of a Large-Scale Excavation in the UK (2014)
- The Maryland Archaeological Synthesis Project: One State’s Solution to Archaeology’s Crushing Gray Literature Problem (2016)
- Masculine Mis/apprehensions: Race, Place, and Gender at Harvard’s Colonial Indian College (2016)
- The Mass Effect of Manifest Destiny: Exploring themes of Colonialism in the Mass Effect Series (2022)
- Mass Graves of Finnish War in Northern Finland – Analyses of One Casualty (2019)
- Masters of the Boundless Seas: Opportunities in Historical Archaeology of the Portuguese Colonial Empire (2019)
- Material and Memory at the Site of the Homeplace (2014)
- Material and Social Landscapes of Federal Education for Alaska Natives, 1905-1951 (2014)
- The Material and Symbolic Production of Insanity at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 1813-1900 (2017)
- The Material Basis of the Caribbean Plantation Complex (2019)
- Material Boundaries of Citizenship: Central American Clandestine Migration through Mexico (2015)
- Material Challenges to Mothering During Incarceration (2020)
- Material Culture and Identity in Early Modern Ireland: Archaeological Investigations in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim (2015)
- Material Culture and Structural Violence: Reframing Evidence of the Social Gradient in Industrial Contexts (2019)
- Material Culture And The Archaeology of Western Identities (2015)
- Material Culture from an early 16th century Portuguese Indiaman wreck site (Oman) (2018)
- The Material Culture of Folk Religion in French North America, 1600-1763 (2018)
- "Material Culture Studies as an Alternative Mitigation: an Example from the US Route 301 Project" by Rachael E. Fowler and Kenneth J. Basalik, Ph.D. (2016)
- Material Culture Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective: How to Define an Adequate Theoretical Framework? (2015)
- Material Elements of the Social Landscape at Fort Vancouver’s Village (2015)
- Material Engagement and the Incarceration Experience at Amache (2022)
- Material Engagements with Japanese American Incarceration History (2020)
- The Material Evolution of Northern Ute Culture: An Analysis of Trade on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation (1880-1910) (2020)
- Material Expressions of Class, Status and Authority Amongst Commissioned Officers at Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon, 1856-1866. (2020)
- Material Expressions of Rank: Non-Verbal Communication Amongst Commissioned Officers at Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon, 1856-1866 (2017)
- Material Interaction Between the Wampanoag and English in the Plymouth Colony Settlement: An Assessment from Excavations on Burial Hill (2018)
- The Material Legacy of Late Colonialism in South Africa (2013)
- Material Masculinities: Archaeology of a World War II Italian Prisoner of War Camp (2016)
- Material memories. Some mysteries of the mantelpiece (2014)
- Material Narratives of Repression (2018)
- Material Turns in Caribbean Archaeology (2014)
- Materialities of Nationhood, Land, and Race in Early Republican El Salvador (2018)
- The Materiality of Affluence and Taste in Trump Tower (2018)
- The Materiality of Convict Leasing: Landscapes, Objects, and Lessons from 19th Century Carceral Unfreedom (2023)
- Materiality of Homemaking: Dressers, Delph, and Heirlooms in western Ireland (2023)
- Materiality of Odors: Experiencing Church Burials and the Urban Environment in an Early Modern Northern Swedish Town (2018)
- Materiality on the Margins of Empire: 19th Century Networks of British Trade and Exchange in Rural Ireland and Scotland. (2018)
- Materiality, Identity & Culture: A New Narrative of Irish Food History (2023)
- Materializing the Past: Ghosting Slave Landscapes at James Madison’s Montpelier (2015)
- Materializing Transformations In Western Ideologies Of Mothering (2020)
- Materializing Wealth And Scarcity In Historic Central New York (2023)
- ‘Matters are Very Well Handled There, and No Expense is Spared to Make Them Profitable’: Accokeek Furnace and the Early Iron Industry in Virginia (2014)
- Matters of Steel: Examining the Deterioration of a World War II Merchant Shipwreck (2015)
- "May the Dragon never be my guide!" African American Catholicism at the Northampton Slave Quarters and Archaeological Park (2016)
- Maya-Spanish Entanglement in Petén, Guatemala (2014)
- McKeen Family History: Examining Antebellum Grave Markers in the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire (2020)
- Meandering Paths of Archival Memory: Placing the Mountain Meadows Massacre on Disturbed Landscapes (2023)
- The Meaning Of The Offshore: The Role Of Islands In The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of Peru (2015)
- Meaning, Networks, and Commodity Exchange: A Geographic Information System (GIS) Inter-site Distribution and Network Analysis of Wampum Beads (2015)
- Meaningful Choices: An Archaeology of Selective Engagement on the 19th Century Irish Coast (2016)
- The Meanings of "Litter" in Yosemite National Park (2015)
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch: The Archaeology of Ranching in Arizona (2016)
- The Measure of Meaning: Identity and Change among Two Contact-Period Cherokee Site Bead Assemblages (2016)
- Measuring Success in the Jesuit Cause (2019)
- Measuring the Quality of Personal Goods: Antipodean Adventures in the Archaeology of Consumption (2018)
- Measuring the Travel Distance: Travel Path and Cultural Difference of the Ming Officials (2020)
- Measuring Variability in Jaw Harps on Enslaved Sites (2020)