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)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 6,401-6,500 of 7,550)
- Documents (7,550)
- The Squire Homestead: A Look into Early American Settlement and Trade in the Greater St. Louis Area (2019)
- The SS James Eagan Layne; The Liberty 70 Project, a Catalyst for Conversation in Submerged Cultural Heritage (2015)
- St Eustatius Jews: Reflections on Social, Economic and Physical Landscapes (2014)
- St. Croix Youth Archaeology Field School (2023)
- THE ST. DAVID’S ISLAND PROJECT: ETHNOGENESIS IN REAL TIME (2015)
- St. Eustatius--The Nexus for Colonial Caribbean Capitalism (2013)
- St. Lawrence Iroquoians as Middlemen or Observers: Review of Evidence in the Middle and Upper St. Lawrence Valley (2014)
- St. Lucia’s 18th-Century Free Black Community and its Impact on the French and Haitian Revolutions (2025)
- St. Patrick’s Day and Sugar Plantations: Articulating Landscape Archaeology with Conceptions of Montserrat’s Historical Narratives and Cultural Geography (2013)
- The St. Paul’s Parish Parsonage: Early Colonial Life and Community Development on South Carolina’s Frontier (2022)
- St. Thomas / St. Anne Parish Heritage Trail: Collaboration and Partnerships In the Caribbean (2016)
- Stable Isotope Perspectives on Diet and Dietary Change within the California Mission System: An Example from the Sanchez Adobe (CA-SMA-71) (2024)
- Stable Isotopes and Historic Period Diets at the Spanish Mission of San Juan Capistrano, Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas (2015)
- Stable Isotopes From The Stables: An Exploration Of Agricultural And Livestock Management Systems In 17th and 18th Century Virginia (2022)
- Stable Isotopic Analysis of Chinese Domestic Animal Bones from the Central Pacific Railroad Community of Terrace, Box Elder County, Utah (2020)
- The Stadt Huys Block Site Collection, Past, Present and Future (2016)
- Staging Tourism: Leisure and Consumption in Florida's Early Twentieth-Century Resorts (2018)
- The Stagville Plantation Stores: Shopping in the Shadow of the Big House (2016)
- Stagville within, beyond, and through the Digital Archaeological Archive for Comparative Slavery: Comparison -> Transition / Juxtaposition (2015)
- Standing Against the Tide: Preserving the Seminole History on Egmont Key (2020)
- Standing at the Crossroads: Toward an Intersectional Archaeology of the African Diaspora (2013)
- Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act (2020)
- Start with Why: The Development of a Project-Based Approach at DPAA (2025)
- Starting Over After Being Taken Away: Enslaved Women, Forced Relocation, and Sexual Relationships in Antebellum Virginia (2017)
- Starting Slow: Community informed background research on Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts (2020)
- The State of Material Culture Training in Historical Archaeology: A Conversation on Best Practices for Teaching Students How to Identify and Analyze Material Culture (2021)
- The State of Research in the Underwater Archaeology of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, (FWI) (2018)
- State of the Art: Reconstructing paleolandscapes for maritime CRM projects (2018)
- The State of the Inland Sea: a primer to the submerged cultural resources of Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River and the state of studies in Great Lakes Shipbuilding (2019)
- The state of the Jamestown Collection: Preparing for 2019 and the future (2020)
- The State of Underwater Archaeology in The 21st Century: A State Perspective (2024)
- Status Quo or Status Go? A reflection on integrated Ocean Heritage in the UN Ocean Decade five years in (2025)
- Status Quo: Military Landscapes (2017)
- Staying True to Our Roots… in Public: Critical Public Archaeology As Working Class Activism (2019)
- Steam and Speed: The Development of the First Self-Unloading Schooner-Barge, Adriatic (2014)
- The Steamer Columbia - A New Discovery in the Blackwater (2017)
- Steel and Honor: An Artifact Examination of Edward Preble's Naval Officer Sword (2020)
- Steel And Steam At The Entrance Of The River Tagus.A Different Reality And New Fields Of Research (2023)
- Steel Tracks and Copper Wire: 19th-Century Railway and Telegraphy Equipment from Minas Gerais (Brazil) (2013)
- Step by Step: The Curative Violence of Stockings and Shoes at the Syracuse State School (2021)
- A Step Toward Exhibition: Digital Reconstruction of Monitor Spaces (2018)
- Stephen Potter's Vision for Potomac Valley Archaeology (2016)
- "Stepping Over the Line": Hyper-Masculinity, Institutionalized Violence, and the Archaeology of the U.S. Border Patrol (2015)
- A ‘Stepping Stone’ of Spanish Colonialism in the Western Pacific: The Mariana Islands (2014)
- Stereo Photogrammetry for Scaling Underwater Models (2022)
- A Stereopticon Tour of Lake Champlain’s Steamboat Graveyard (2024)
- Stew Stoves in the British Atlantic: An Example from Monticello (2021)
- Still Boundary Street: Marion Square as Contested Ground in Charleston, South Carolina (2021)
- Still Waiting For The Breeze: Archaeological Investigations At Walnut Point, VA (2024)
- Stinking foreshore to tree lined avenue: Investigating the riverine lives impacted by the construction of the Thames Embankments in Victorian London. (2013)
- Stinking Foreshore To Tree-lined Avenue: Rethinking The Cleansing Of The Sewage Filled River Thames of Mid Nineteenth Century London (2023)
- Stirring the Ashes: archaeologies of ruination on the site of Old Panama (2013)
- Stitched in Time: Mary Beaudry’s influence on the study of small finds (2022)
- Stitching It Together (II): Sailmaking from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution, New Findings from The Historic Sail Research Project (2025)
- Stitching It Together: Sailmaking from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution and The Historic Sail Research Project (2024)
- Stolen Treasure, Exotic Animals, and Stray Bullets – A Pathway to a Career in Archaeology?!?! (2020)
- Stone Hill Cemetery in Context: Exploring the Significance of an Unmarked Fieldstone Cemetery in Pound Ridge, New York (2025)
- Stone Walls for Portuguese Pests: Swahili Landscape Responses to European Incursion on Zanzibar Island, Tanzania (2020)
- The Stoneware from the Baja California Manila Galleon (2017)
- Stopping A Rat-Hole: The Charleston Harbor Stone Fleets, 1861 & 1862. (2015)
- A Storehouse of Architectural Inspirations and Legacies: Examining Structure 101 at St. Mary’s Fort, Maryland (2024)
- The storehouse of the Loyola habitation site in French Guiana (ca. 1725-1768) (2014)
- Stories Bricks Can Tell: Elizabethan texts and 3-D Scanning Inform Archaeological Interpretation of Roanoke Colony Metallurgical Research (2014)
- Stories from the Kitchen: Ceramic Analysis of the Belvoir Slave Quarter (2020)
- Stories That Can Heal Us: Afrodecolonial Perspectives and Community-based Approaches to Archaeology in French Guiana (2020)
- Stories Written in Stone (2020)
- Story Maps, A New Public Archaeology Tool: Mill Springs Battlefield Case Study (2018)
- Story Maps: Utilizing the NHHC Arsenal to Tell the Navy's Story (2018)
- Story of an unusually preserved early modern Vicar in Finnish Lapland (2017)
- "A stout…sailor negro." Agency, Self-Determination, and Material Gain: Black Mariners in the Caribbean Colonial Project. (2022)
- "A Stove Boat": Archaeological and Historical Investigation of E. & E. K. Cook Whaling Company and Its Reaction to a Dimming Industry (2022)
- Straddling the Shoreline: Parks Canada’s Near-shore Maritime Archaeological Inventories (2014)
- Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Understanding Public Archaeology from the Public (2018)
- A Strange and Continuing Journey: The Evolution of a Record of Antiquity to a Holistic Public Interpretation of the Historic Environment Facilitated by Technology (2013)
- Strange Cousins from the West: Colonial Legacies within Historical Archaeology (2014)
- "A Strange Sort of Warfare Underground": Mines and Countermines on the Petersburg Front, 1864 (2016)
- Strange Tastes and Disgusting Smells: Experiences of German Merchants and Sailors in 16th-Century Iceland (2018)
- Strange Utensils (2013)
- Strangers in the Great Bend: Settler and Native Communities in the Red River Valley of the Old Southwest at the Beginning of the 19th Century (2021)
- Strategic Alliances 1750-1820: Marriage and inheritance patterns among the first Spanish colonial settlers along the Rio Grande in Texas (2021)
- Strategic Planning for the Web: Goals, Objectives and Tactics for Communicating Heritage (2013)
- Strawberry (Battle) Fields and Gender: A Woman’s Cloisonné Pendant from a Bombarded Encampment of the American Civil War (2014)
- The Stray Finds Project - Recording Lost Artefacts from Plymouth Sound (2013)
- Streaking and Straight Pins: Constructing Masculinity on an Antebellum College Campus (2016)
- Streamlining the process: using handheld devices for in-field data collection on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. (2017)
- Streets of Royalty: African-American Music and Memorialization in West Baltimore (2018)
- Stretching the Envelope of Archaeology, from Museum Work to Women’s Studies (2025)
- ‘Stretching the Soup with a Little Water’: Improvisation at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey (2014)
- ‘Strewed with Wrecks’: Results of the 2017 Archaeological Survey of Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory (2018)
- Strike the Bell!: Creation of a Diagnostic Database of Known Early Ship's Bells (2018)
- "A Stronghold Of Rebellion:" Confederate Defense Of The Central Gulf Coast During The Civil War (2016)
- Structural Analysis of the Warwick (2013)
- Structural racism and archaeological practice - the archaeology of razed African American industrial communities. (2017)
- Structure Documentation and Data Recovery Excavations at the Keeton Site (3PP1316), Pope County, Arkansas (2016)
- Structuring Colonial Entanglements on the Chesapeake Landscape: Exploring Evidence of Fortification from the Coan Hall Site (2020)
- The Struggle to Protect and Decolonize Mozambican Underwater Heritage of Global Interaction: Swahili, Slave Trade, and Indian Ocean (2023)
- Struggle, Perseverance, and Protest at Jamestown: A Black Community in the Pee Dee Region of SC. (2024)
- Student Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools with Federal Agencies (2023)
- Student Voice: A Revolution Worth Listening To (2020)
- Studies of the Subaltern in Contemporary Archaeology: Prostitution in Saltpeter Boomtowns and Ports of Northern Chile (1880-1930) (2018)