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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- Smoke and Spirit: Exploring Bodily and Sensual Concerns at Early Harvard College (2018)
- Smoke is in the Air: Tobacco and Traditional Plant Use in 19th Century Plantation Life (2018)
- The Smoke of Industry Hovering as a Blessing Over the Village: The Study of a Landscape of Control in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (2015)
- Smoking Culture in the Interior of West Africa: A Comparative Review (2025)
- Smoking Hams and Pumping Hickory: The Armstrong-Rogers Site in New Castle County, Delaware (2016)
- Smoking Pipes, St. Tammany, the Masons, and New York City Patronage Jobs (2014)
- Smoky places: archaeology of smoking practices on public parks of a capital city (Santiago, Chile, South America) (2016)
- Smuggling and Distribution Routes of the Manila Galleon. The case of some XVI century Chinese porcelains and majolica in the Pacific coast of Mexico (2017)
- Snake Oil Then and Now: What Patent Medicine in 1906 San Francisco Can Teach Us About the Wellness Industry (2022)
- The Snowtown Project: Remembering Providence’s Past (2022)
- So Many Paddlewheels – So Little Time! (2019)
- So Many Shipwrecks, So Little Time (2020)
- "So, What Does That Buff Colored Paste Tell You?" The Challenges And Solutions To Finding The Early Colonial Sites In The Delaware Bay Area. (2020)
- Soap And Suds: Alcohol Consumption Among The Residents Of Soap Suds Row (2015)
- Social and Economic Contexts of the Coromandel Coast of South India in the Colonial Period and the Indian Diaspora Formation (2020)
- Social and Economic Responses to Sixteenth-Century Trade in North Atlantic Islands (2016)
- Social and Spatial Dimensions of a Pre-emancipation Village: Preliminary Analysis of Material Culture at Morgan’s Village, Nevis, West Indies (2014)
- Social Bioarchaeology of Childhood Applied to the Analysis of an Excavated 19th Century Mennonite Cemetery (2013)
- Social contract archaeology: a business case for the future (2013)
- Social Defense: The Construction of Late Medieval Societal and Spatial Boundaries in Newcastle upon Tyne and York (2015)
- Social Distancing In The Woods: Archaeological Expressions Of Isolated Winter Habitations Of Newfoundland’s Early European Fisherfolk (2021)
- The Social Dynamics of Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake: Inferences from Tobacco Pipe Assemblages and Their Archaeological Contexts. (2021)
- Social Geography of Lowcountry Landscapes (2016)
- The Social Identity of the Crew Aboard an 18th Century Spanish Frigate (2014)
- The Social Identity of the Crew Aboard an 18th Century Spanish Frigate (2014)
- The Social Lives of Landed Estates in the Yucatecan Hinterlands (2024)
- Social Status and Inter-Household Interactions Amongst a 19th Enslaved Community (2013)
- Social Stratification in Bangka waters’ Lighthouses (2014)
- Social Structure in Underwater Archaeology During the 1970's and 1980's (2024)
- The Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of the Calusa (2019)
- A Socio-Economic Study of the Ceramics of 322 South Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri (2019)
- A Socioeconomic Interpretation of 19th Century Archaeological Ceramics found at Contemporaneous, Culturally Diverse Sites on Ballast Point in San Diego, California (2016)
- Socioeconomic Status of a Self-Sufficient 19th Century Homestead (2016)
- The Sociopolitical Landscapes of Hacienda "El Progreso", 1887-1904: Historical Ecology of the Galápagos Islands (2015)
- Sodbusters Invade the Peace… Again: Archaeology at the Old Bezanson Townsite, Alberta, Canada (2025)
- "The Soil in Florida" – Developing Archaeological Methods to Identify Black Americans in Jim Crow-era Pensacola, Florida (2020)
- Soil, Soot, and Slag: Using Microartifact Analysis to Understand the Continuing Impacts of Historic Industrial Activity in Detroit, MI (2019)
- Soiled Doves and Fighting Men: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in 19th Century Tucson, Arizona (2019)
- Soldier's Exemption: Post-War Domestic Consumption in Flagstaff, Arizona (2020)
- Solemn Solomons Cemeteries: WWII Burial Practices in the South Pacific (2025)
- A Solid Foundation: Investigations of Early French Occupation in Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. (2023)
- Solving the Mystery of the Black’s India Pale Ale Bottle from the John Marsh House, Contra Costa County, California (2020)
- Solvitur Ambulando: Geophysical Surveys at Mission San Antonio de Padua, California (2018)
- Some Datable Artifacts from Remains of the Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh House of ca. 1650-1664 in Fort Orange (2022)
- "Some interest has been expressed in regard to the diet of the children": The Documentary and Archaeological Implications of Food at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls. (2018)
- Some thoughts on unraveling the chemical complexity of turquoise/green glass trade beads (2014)
- Some Very Middle Class Indians? Connections between the Croaton Indians of Hatteras Island and the wider 18th century world. (2013)
- “Sometimes paths last longer than roads” : William S. Burroughs for an Archaeology of Modernity (2014)
- Sometimes the Simplest Solutions are the Best: Reconserving the Lake Phelps Canoes (2021)
- Somewhere Between a Savannah River Broadspear and a Model 1855 Rifle: An Archeological Legacy and Recent Research at the Site of the Harpers Ferry Armory (2016)
- "Somewhere in No-Man’s Land": Army Camp Hanford and America’s Defense Program (2016)
- "A Son Is Always a Boy": Chinese Ideals of Male Elderhood (2022)
- Sons of a Lesser God? Social Differentiation in Urban and Rural 19th and 20th Century Cemeteries. (2024)
- Soothing the Self: Medicine Advertisement, Non-Performative Identity, and the Cult of Domesticity. (2019)
- Sorting Through the Trash of Michigan State’s Spartan City: Preliminary Perspectives on the Materiality of the late Post-war Campus (2022)
- Sourcing a Secret Recipe: An XRF Study of Barbadian Ceramics (2015)
- Sourcing the Black "Marble" Knight’s Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA (2023)
- South Alabama Population Dynamics and Archaeology: Considerations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2025)
- The South Blairsville Industry Archaeological District: A Functional and Landscape Analysis (2018)
- South Carolina Archaeological Archive Flood Recovery Project (2018)
- The South Carolina Underwater Antiquities Act: Mandated management of submerged archaeological resources and avocational collection in the Palmetto State (2016)
- South Carolina-BOEM Cooperative Agreement Preliminary Results (2018)
- South Carolina-BOEM Cooperative Agreement Preliminary Results (2016)
- The South Florida Mystery Canoe (2018)
- "Southern archaeology" : the French départements and territories d'Outre-Mer in the Indian Ocean (2013)
- Southern Hospitality: An examination of plantation feasting (2014)
- Soviet Memorials as Dissonant Heritage in Estonia (2023)
- Space or Lack Thereof; an Artifact and Documentary Analysis of 16th-Century Shipboard Activity Areas and their Evolution (2023)
- Space Syntax Analysis For Poverty Point World Heritage Site: The Ubiquitous And Unending Social Logic of Space? (2025)
- "Space, Division, Classification": Gender, Class, and Race in the Treatment of Insanity in 19th-Century New England Lunatic Asylums (2019)
- Spaces and Places of Antebellum Georgia Lowcountry Landscapes: A Case Study of Wattle and Tabby Daub Slave Cabins on Sapelo Island, Georgia (2019)
- Spain at Mackinac? Adornment Artifacts From a Fur Trade Household (2019)
- Spanish and English Maritime Atlases as Sources for the Archaeology of the Americas’ Pacific Coast. (2022)
- Spanish and French Colonial Forts in La Florida 1562-1763 (2023)
- Spanish Colonial Dam & Acequia Systems in Brackenridge Park San Antonio Texas (2018)
- Spanish Shippers Marks on Wax, Pottery and Silver Bars. (2017)
- Spanish Slavers and European Interlopers on the Spanish Lake: Eye Witness Accounts from Shipwreck Survivors in the Lesser Antilles 1620-1635 (2013)
- Spanish West Florida: The Second Time Around (2025)
- Sparrowhawk (1626), The Oldest Shipwreck On Cape Cod, MA: An Analysis Of Wooden Artifacts Using X-ray Fluorescence (XRF). (2020)
- Spatial analyses and 3-D Interpretative modelling at Loyola Habitation (1730-1768) (2019)
- Spatial Analysis of Hanna’s Town: Settlement and Geophysical Frontiers (2017)
- Spatial Analysis of Hanna’s Town: Settlement and Geophysical Frontiers. (2016)
- Spatial Analysis of the Free African Community of Kingstown, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (2016)
- Spatial Context and Farm Types of Anne Arundel County Maryland, 1850-1880 (2016)
- Spatial Patterns and Activity Areas at the Harrison Site: A Case Study in Multiple Lines of Evidence and Differential Uses of Space (2020)
- Spatial Relationships at Ethnic Chinese Dominated Section Stations in the Western United States (2020)
- The Spatial Violence of Colonialism (2016)
- Spatiality of the Everyday: 19th Century Slave Life in Western Tennessee (2017)
- Specially Brewed for Export: Farm Laborers and Alcohol in San Mateo County, California during the Twentieth Century (2025)
- A Spirit of Rebellion Lives On: The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project (2014)
- Spirits And Spirituality: Drinking, Smoking, And Racial Uplift In 19th Century Nantucket, MA (2020)
- Spiritual Wayfarers and Enslaved African Muslims: New insights into Yarrow Mamout, Muslim Slaves and American Pluralism (2016)
- "A Splendid Location": Land Use On An Urban Block in Mobile, Alabama (2018)
- Split Lips and Broken Bottoms: Analysis of Glass Fragments from an Urban Context (2018)
- Spoil No More: Sediment as a Beneficial Resource in the Protection of Coastal Archaeological Sites (2025)
- "Spoiled Submerged Sites" or "Just Another C-Filter"? Accounting for Recent Human Impact in the Archaeological Analysis of BISC-2 (2013)
- Sport Divers and Maritime Archaeology: An Instructor’s Perspective (2014)
- The Sporting Life: Archaeological Evidence of Pensacola’s Red Light District Customers (2015)
- The Spread of Cholera Throughout North America in 1832 via Inland Waterways (2019)
- A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Wood Analysis from the Spring Break Wreck (2019)