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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- Senkan no Aki no Tsuki: Interpreting Depictions of the Landscape at WWII Heart Mountain Camp (2020)
- Sense of Belonging and Self-Efficacy: How the Field School Experience Change Students’ Views of Their Abilities in Archaeology (2022)
- Sensory Perspectives on Maize and Identity Formation in Colonial New England (2018)
- A Sequence of French Vernacular Architectural Design and Construction Methods in Colonial North America, 1690-1850 (2016)
- Serendipity and Industrial Labor Development: Indigenous Labor in the Western Arctic Commercial Whaling Industry (2014)
- The Serenity Farm African American Burial Ground (2016)
- Serious Miracles: Semiotic Battlefields of the Spanish Reconquista in 17th Century New Mexico (2020)
- Set in stone and pencilled in: indelible memories and the inscription of space at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney (2014)
- Set in Stone: A Look at What Archaeology and Archival Research Tells Us About the Construction of the Stone Church and Convento at Mission San Antonio de Valero (41BX6). (2020)
- Sets and Sensibility: Tea Service and the Excavation of Ideology and Desire (2014)
- Setting Boundaries: Identifying the Homes of Enslaved Field Workers at James Madison's Montpelier (2015)
- Setting the Machine in Motion: What Triggers Archaeological Review at the Local Level? (2014)
- Settlement and Industry in the Wild West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (2018)
- A Settlement Ecology Approach to Examining the Transition to Commercial Farming in Upstate New York, 1855-1875 (2021)
- Settlement in Colonial Quebec: Implications from a Stable Isotope Study of Enamel Carbonate from Montréal and Québec City (2014)
- Settlement Orginization at Sugarloaf Estate (2015)
- Settlement Patterns and Probabilities for the Southern Virginia Piedmont: An Archaeological Synthesis and Geospatial Model of 18th- and 19th-Century Sites (2021)
- Settling a Waste-land: Mapping Historic Can Scatters in the Western Mojave Desert (2020)
- Seventeenth Century Battlefields in Colonial New England (2016)
- The Seventeenth-Century Brewhouse at Ferryland, Newfoundland (2018)
- Seventeenth-Century Ceramics Related to an Enameler’s Workshop in Rouen (2014)
- Seventeenth-Century Shipboard Beer: An Experimental Archaeology Approach On Brewing Old Recipes Accurately (2017)
- Sewagescapes: Urban Growth and Topography of Sewage Districts in Central Illinois (2021)
- Sex and Penitence: Untold Stories of 18th-Century Contraception and Religious Fervor from Collections Excavated in the 1980s (2017)
- Sex in a Cup: Feminist Dilemmas in French Chocolate (2017)
- Sex Workers in the City: Presentation and Interaction in 19th-century Boston’s Urban Landscape (2016)
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: Digging Hippie Archaeology in the Lone Star State (2013)
- Sexualities and Textualities: An Archaeological Perspective (2025)
- Sexuality in the (Nineteenth-Century) City: Practicing Class in Gotham’s Bedrooms (2016)
- Shackleford Banks: The Economical and Environmental Changing Coastal Dynamics from the Early 1800s to the Creation of the National Seashore. (2022)
- The shadow of Mary Beaudry in Antarctic Archeology (2022)
- Shaken Apart: Community Archaeology In A Post-Industrial Earthquake City (2018)
- Shallow Water Hydrographic surveys in support of archaeological site preservation: Queen Anne’s Revenge Wreck Site, North Carolina (2016)
- Shanties on the Mountainside: A Look at Labor on the Blue Ridge Railroad (2018)
- The Shape of the Matagrana Shipwreck, an English Merchant Vessel from Late 17th to Mid-18th Centuries (2020)
- Shaping the City from Detroit’s Rediscovered Archaeological Collections (2015)
- Shaping the Landscape: A Chronology of Shore Line Changes (2019)
- Shaping time by hand: Ceramic production in an Afro-descendant community in Northern Colombia. (2025)
- Shards of the Atlantic: Sweden and 17th-Century Colonialism (2013)
- Shared Authority, Reflective Practice, and Community Outreach: Thoughts on Parallel Conversations in Public History and Historical Archaeology (2015)
- Shared Bodies: Social Patterns in Rural East Jersey and the Formation of an African American Community (2022)
- Shared Landscapes and Contested Spaces: The Military Landscapes of St. Kitts and St. Eustatius (2023)
- Sharing and Cooperating: The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (2021)
- Sharing and Using Knowledge Derived from Experience: Early Cultural Resource Evaluations of the OCS (2022)
- Sharing Stories of The Sunken Prize (2020)
- Sharing the Buried History of the Apperson Community, Menifee County, Kentucky (2019)
- Sharing the CRM Wealth: Creating a Searchable Archaeological Database with GIS (2019)
- Sharing the Interpretive Center at Colonial Williamsburg: Archaeologists, Historical Interpreters, and Descendant Communities (2015)
- Sharing the Story: Developing Collaborative Educational Experiences at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2023)
- Sharing the Sweet Life: Public Archaeology in practice at a historic Louisiana sugar mill (2014)
- Sharing The Wealth: Crowd Sourcing Texts And Artifacts (2016)
- A “Sharp Prick of Hunger”: Defining Famine Food (2014)
- "She Dressed in Strictly Native Style": The Materiality of Power and Identity in the 19th Transatlantic Slave Trade (2023)
- Shedding Light On Early Twentieth Century Logging: The Archaeological Remains Of A Lighting Power Plant At Camp A Of The Bridal Veil Lumbering Company, Multnomah County, Oregon (ca. 1910~1920) And Its Implications For Camp Life And Industrial Culture Of The Period (2021)
- The Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Four Early Nineteenth-Century Steamboats from Lake Champlain (2015)
- Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Results of the 2015 field season using traditional and new recording techniques. (2016)
- A Shell Above the Waters: An Ojibwa Maritime Cultural Landscape (2019)
- Shell Beads in the Sixteenth Century Northeast (2020)
- Shells and Shifting Shorelines: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in the Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (2024)
- Sherds of What Came Before: Ceramic Origins and Changed Meanings at the Brafferton Indian School (2025)
- Shields’s Folly: A Tavern and Bathhouse in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia (2016)
- The Shift From Tobacco To Wheat Farming: Using Macrobotanical Analysis To Interpret How Changes In Agricultural Practices Impacted The Daily Activities Of Monticello’s Enslaved Field Laborers. (2016)
- Shifting Focus: Reorienting Western Histories with Historical Archaeology (2019)
- Shifting Regimes: Progressive Southern Agriculture and the Enslaved Community (2017)
- Shifting Remembrance: On-Site and Digital Memorialization of Soviet Mass Repression in the Wake of COVID-19 (2021)
- Shifting Sands: Evolving Educational Programming to Support Maritime Archaeological Research in Massachusetts (2018)
- Shifting Sovereignties in a Discontinuous Frontier: The Case of Saint Croix and the Danish West Indies (2024)
- Shifting Tides: Impacts of Coastal Terrain on Archaeological Survey Methods (2025)
- Shifts in Projectile Point Form from Pre-Mission through Mission Times within the Pluralistic Context of the Texas Missions (2022)
- Shining a Light on the Past: Jupiter Inlet (2019)
- Shining in the Tar Woods: An Examination of Illicit Liquor Distillation Sites in the Francis Marion National Forest (2018)
- Ship Graveyards: What Complete Shipwreck Removal Reveals About 19th Century Barge, Dredge and Tug Boat Construction (2015)
- Ship Imagery and Self-Liberation: Archaeological Investigations of Inter- Island Networks of the Enslaved at the Hughes Estate Plantation Site on Anguilla, B.W.I. (2022)
- Ship reconstruction and digital modeling: the example of the Aber Wrac'h 1 (France) (2013)
- Ship Scanners II: This Time, It's Technical (2017)
- Ship, Navire, Navío, Nave, Buque... Creating a Multi-Language Glossary for Early Modern Ship (2018)
- Shipboard Life aboard Phoenix II: Conserving and Interpreting the Artifacts from Lake Champlain’s Fifth Steamboat (2019)
- Shipbuilding in the Australian colonies before 1850 (2014)
- Ships As "Social Spaces": Analysing Shipwrecks From A Social Perspective (2020)
- Ships in the Harbor and Ships on Stone: Grand Marais as a Maritime Cultural Landscape on Lake Superior (2022)
- Ships, history, politics and archaeology : A critical look at the research History of ship archaeology in Germany (2014)
- Ships’ Bells: Significant History, Unknown Origins (2014)
- Shipwreck 43 and the formation of the ship graveyard in the central basin at Thonis-Heraclion, Egypt (2013)
- Shipwreck Ecology (2021)
- Shipwreck Ecology: A New Paradigm for the Analysis of the Formation of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes (2025)
- Shipwreck in a Melon Patch, An Archaeological Mystery from Gloucester County, New Jersey (2021)
- A Shipwreck Landscape Spatial Statistical Analysis (2023)
- Shipwreck Microbial Communities as Indicators of Environmental Impact from Oil Spills (2025)
- Shipwreck of Colonial Making: The preliminary study of a Tasmanian-built ship wrecked in Victorian waters (1841-1853) (2021)
- Shipwreck Preserves and Cultural Heritage in Southern Lake Michigan (2022)
- Shipwreck Site Formation Processes of Commercial Fish Trawling and Dredging (2013)
- Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program (STAMP): A Model for Coastal Heritage Resource Management Based on Community Engagement and Citizen Science (2020)
- Shipwrecks and politics (2013)
- Shipwrecks Of The Florida Keys, Salvage, And The Conservation Movement (2016)
- Shipwrecks of the Itaparica Naval Combat, Brazil, 1648 (2014)
- Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: a maritime archaeological reassessment of some of Australia’s earliest Shipwrecks (2014)
- Shipwrecks with stories (2013)
- Shipwrecks, Doghole Ports, and the Lumber Trade: Maritime Cultural Landscape Survey of California’s Sonoma Coast (2017)
- Shipwrecks, Pirates, Governments, and Archaeologists: Can We All Just Get Along? (2013)
- Ship’s Equipment, Fittings, and Rigging Components from the Storm Wreck (2016)