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)
- A Shoe: Soul of the Salubria Attic in Culpeper County, Virginia (2014)
- Shooting the Past: Colonial and Revolutionary War Firearms Live Fire Experiments and Spherical Ball Performance (2018)
- Shopping with the Hooded Order: The Ku Klux Klan Retail Landscape in 1920’s Indianapolis, Indiana (2020)
- Shore to Ship: The Application of KOCOA to a Maritime Military Environment (2018)
- Shore Whalers of the Outer Banks: A Material Culture Study (2015)
- Shore Whaling along California’s Central Coast (2020)
- Shoreline Change: Developing Predictive GIS Models (2025)
- Shoreline Site Preservation by Dredge Spoil (2019)
- Shorescape Underwater 1 – Methods and Results (2025)
- Shoshoni Emigrant Interaction at Fort Bridger, Wyoming 1843-1868 (2019)
- Shot at Dawn: Memorialising First World War Executions for Cowardice in the Landscape of the UK's National Memorial Arboretum (2016)
- A Shot in the Dark: Assessing the Navigational Capabilities of H.L. Hunley (2018)
- Should You Care About Quality Assurance in Historical Archaeology? Yes, Especially in a Forensic Archaeology Context (2023)
- Shouting to Wake the Dead: Is it Time for a Historic Graves Protection Act? (2018)
- "Show Me the Maps!" An Application of Story Maps to Archaeological Interpretation (2017)
- Showing Your Work: The Role Of Public Archaeology In The Campaign To Save The ISM (2016)
- Shrimp Boats, Bricks, and Buoys: An Overview of the process behind site selection for the Dry Tortugas Underwater Heritage Trail (2025)
- The Shrinking Island: Out-Migration and Settlement Organization, 19th – 20thcentury Inishark, Ireland. (2020)
- Shrouded Legacies: The Intersection of Trauma, Heritage, and Dignity in a Contested Asylum Burial Ground (2025)
- Siege Lines: Layered Landscapes and Difficult Histories on Yorktown Battlefield (2020)
- The Siege Of Petersburg: Reading Between The Lines (2018)
- Signaling Theory, Network Creation, and Commodity Exchange in the Historic Caribbean (2016)
- The Significance of Hotel Ware Ceramics in the Twentieth Century (2015)
- Significant Clay: Iconography and the Heroes Beneath Our Streets (2018)
- Signs of Life: Towards a Holistic Archaeology of Building Deposits (2021)
- Silk and Rifles: A Gender Analysis of Blockade Runner Cargos (2017)
- A Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear: The History and Archeology of the Monumental Core in Washington, DC (2016)
- The Silt Beneath Us -- cave sediments as archives of environmental change (2014)
- The Simple Life: Archeological Investigations of a German Immigrant Family Compund in Austin, Texas. (2013)
- A Simple Toy Soldier: An Exploration of Aritfacts as Metatext (2023)
- A "single closely dated assemblage"?: Re-examining the Timing and Nature of the House Clearance Deposit(s) in the Custis Well (2021)
- The Single-Use Vessel: Reuse And Recycling In The Construction Of The Cuban Chug (2017)
- A Singular Find, A Global Story: an Artifact Biography of a French Tobacco Pipestem Found at an American Civil War Encampment in Williamsburg, VA. (2022)
- Sinister and Righteous: Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record (2021)
- The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: Consequences and Memory (2017)
- The Sinking Of The Indian -1817- Or How History Resurfaces (2023)
- The Sinking of the Sacred: North Carolina’s Coastal Historic Cemetery Survey to Address Heritage Loss, Descendant Communities, and Cemetery Preservation (2022)
- Sinking Slowly: Adapting Underwater and Terrestrial Methods for Surveying Airplane Sites in the Bogs of Newfoundland and Labrador (2014)
- Sisneros and Cisneros: Place-Based Community Development Among Hispanic Homesteaders in Northeast New Mexico (2017)
- Site Formation and the location of Chinese Structures in Wyoming (2023)
- Site Formation Of The Sea Scout Wreck, Mallows Bay, MD (2025)
- Site Formation Processes in the Mobile River: Analysis of Shipwreck Acoustic Imagery (2023)
- Site Formation Processes of Sunken Aircraft: A Case Study of Four WWII Aircraft in Saipan’’s Tanapag Lagoon (2014)
- Site Formation Processes of the Wreck of the U. S. Steamer Convoy in Pensacola Bay, Florida (2013)
- "The Site Mama": Mothering and Mentorship as the Taproot of Community Driven Research Projects (2020)
- Site Monitoring at Fort Eustis, Virginia (2018)
- Site Study and Reconstruction of the Pillar Dollar Wreck, Biscayne Bay, Florida (2015)
- "The Site Was Similar to Others in the City in That it Produced the Unexpected" Excavations at the IAAM Site on Gadsden’s Wharf (2022)
- The Site With the Most Stuff Wins: Assessing Ephemeral Sites for the National Register (2014)
- Sites of Difficult Memory: The Haciendas of Chimborazo, Ecuador (2015)
- Sites of Memory: Historic African American Cemeteries in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. (2021)
- Situating The Copper On The Borderlands Of New Spain (COTBONS) Project In Historical Archaeology (2024)
- Situational Identity and The Materiality of Illegal Immigration (2014)
- Sixteenth Century Contact Between the Trent Valley ‘Hurons’ and the French on the St. Lawrence: Unearthing the Mosaic (2014)
- Sixth Annual SHA Ethics Bowl (2019)
- Sixty Years of Archeology in Independence National Historical Park: Learning from the Past, Digging for the Future (2016)
- Sixty Years of Encampment Archaeology at Valley Forge (2015)
- Skeletons in the Cabinet: Historical Memory and the Treatment of Human Remains Attributed to the Schenectady Massacre of 1690 (2020)
- Slate Pencils and Stoves: The Impact of the Rosenwald Fund on Schools in Gloucester, County Virginia (2020)
- Slave cemetery or not? An archeothanatological and anthropological approach from Guadaloupe (2013)
- Slave Foodways at James Madison’s Montpelier A.D. 1810- 1830 (2015)
- Slave Quarters, Stand, or Trash Dump? Determining Site Function at the Food Plot Site. (2013)
- Slave Ships and Mutiny, The Cahuita National Park Shipwreck Survey in Costa Rica (2013)
- Slave Ships: Identifying Them in the Archaeological Record and Understanding Their Unique Characteristics (2015)
- The Slave Trade in the Gulf of Mexico: The Potential for Furthering Research through the Archaeology of Shipwrecked Slave Ships (2016)
- Slave village organization in the French West Indies. (2013)
- The Slave Water Well at Kingsley Plantation: The Unexpected Possibilities of an African Religiosity within a Secular Context (2014)
- The Slave Wrecks Project Digital Archive: Progress and Prospects (2016)
- The Slave Wrecks Project in National Park Units of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2016)
- The Slave Wrecks Project: An Agenda, An Approach for the Maritime Archaeology of the Slave Trade (2016)
- Slavery and Freedom on the Periphery: Faunal Analysis of Four Ante- and Post-bellum Maryland Sites (2015)
- Slavery and memory in France’s former colony: designing the commemoration of memory at the Loyola cemetery while respecting sensibilities of history (2013)
- Slavery and Resistance in Maryland: Findings From the L'Hermitage Slave Village Excavations (2016)
- Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda System of Nasca, Peru, 1619-1767 (2019)
- Slavery to Freedom on the Web: A Community Engagement Experiment for Online Exhibits (2013)
- Slavery, Race, and the Making of a University in the Capital of the Confederacy (2016)
- Slavery, Resistance, and Memory -The Case of Mauritius. (2020)
- Slaves as Individuals: Variability in Status and Identity Among the Field Slave Houses at Colonels Island Plantation, Georgia (2018)
- Slaves or Soldiers? Status Ambiguity in Masoud’s Followers at Kikole, Tanzania (2023)
- Slices and Snouts: A Combined Canine arcHRD and Archaeogeophysical Approach to Finding a Lost Black Cemetery in Northwest Ohio (2025)
- Slipped, Salted and Glazed: An Overview of North Carolina’s Pottery from 1750-1850 (2016)
- Slipware Philadelphia Style: Case Study from Recent Excavations at the Museum of the American Revolution Site (2016)
- "Sloops of 30 Tuns are Carried Overland in This Place": Cart Roads, Trade, and Settlement in the Northern Delmarva Peninsula, C. 1670-1800. (2013)
- Small Beads, Big Picture: Patterns of Interaction identified From Blue Glass Artifacts from the Upper Great Lakes Region (2014)
- Small Chinese Settlements in the southwest Pacific: a brief look at Chinese Bakeries and Households in the Southwest Pacific 1890-1930 (2013)
- Small Finds, Big Stories (2019)
- Small Island, Big Mission: Landscapes of Presbyterianism in Aniwa, Vanuatu (2023)
- Small Islands Supporting Empires: Farming Landscapes in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Pivot of Local Food Sovereignty (2023)
- Small islands, big expectations: the role of Isla de Cabras in the defense of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (2023)
- Small Project, Big Questions: Unusual Finds from the Yale Lock Factory Site, Newport, New York (2020)
- Small Scale Farming to Large Scale Sugar Production, Capitalism, and Slavery in Barbados (2014)
- "A small secluded plot of ground": Preservation of the West Campus Cemetery at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC (2022)
- Small Steps to Preserve El Gigante: Conserving and Interpreting an Artifact from a Rockshelter in the Highlands of Honduras (2020)
- Small Things: Utilitarian Objects from the Crew of H. L. Hunley (2020)
- Small Town Charm: Opportunities, Challenges, and Contested Belonging in Rural Spaces (2024)
- Small Towns and Mining Camps: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Diasporic Communities in Oregon (2020)
- Small Waists and Tiny Feet: The Influence of Fashion on Deformed Skeletal Remains, Even in a Girl from the Wild West (2017)
- The Smith's Island Archaeology Project: Amphibious Archaeology, Temporal Democratization, and Creolization over Four Centuries (2025)
- The Smithsonian and Underwater Archaeology (2024)
- Smoke and Mirrors: Comparing Smoking-Based Plant Consumption from Two 19th Century Captive House Sites (2023)