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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- A Study of French Colonial Ceramics at the Louie Blanchette Site (23SC2010) (2014)
- A Study of Indigenous Daily Life Integrating Geophysical and Archaeological Methods at the San Antonio Missions (2017)
- The study of Modern archaeology in Metropolitan France (2014)
- A Study of the Effects of Two Poly-Ethylene Glycol Pretreatments in the Conservation of Waterlogged Wood (2020)
- Study of the tile decoration from 15th to 18th century in architectural sites in Northern Vietnam (2014)
- A Study of Two Limestone Roads at the Nathan Boone Homestead Site (23SC2155) (2015)
- Studying maps: Buchanan in colonial south India (2021)
- Style and Substance: Button Production, Use, and Choice at the Buffalo Forge Iron Plantation (2023)
- Style and Sustenance: A Comparative Investigation of Cattle Husbandry, Beef Butchery, and Gentry Cuisine in Eighteenth-Century British Colonial Virginia and Connecticut (2017)
- The Subculture of the U.S.Army during WWII and Its Impact on the Construction of a New Airbase in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (2013)
- A Subfloor Pit from Stone Slave Quarters at Belvoir, Maryland: A panoply of objects within a succession of functions (2020)
- Submerged Aircraft Research in Poland: Recent Case Studies from Lagoon, River, and Lake Contexts (2023)
- The Submerged Battlescape Heritage of Roi-Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands (2025)
- Submerged Brunswick Town: Assessing Underwater Cultural Resources at the 18th Century North Carolina Port Town (2022)
- Submerged but Not Forgotten: Considering Climate Change Impacts on Underwater Archaeological Heritage (2019)
- Submerged landscapes on the Sahul shelf: Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (2023)
- Submerged Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Cave Sites on the Yucatan Peninsula: Recent Advances in Virtual Access and Visual Analytics (2023)
- Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere? (2018)
- The Submerged Precontact Landscape of Saint Croix, USVI (2024)
- Submerged Skylines: Applications of GIS-Based Visibility Analyses in Reconstructing Submerged Cities (2018)
- Submerged: Underwater Archaeology in South Carolina for 8th Graders (2020)
- Subordinate Economies Within The Barbadian Sugar Plantation Economy (2015)
- Subsea Mudflows and Moving Shipwrecks: Submerged Cultural Resource Management on the Mississippi River Delta Front (2020)
- Subsistence and Persistence: Understanding Indigenous Foodways within Mission Santa Clara de Asìs, Alta California (2023)
- Subtle Ground: The Material Memories of a Contemporary Oaxacan Pueblo (2024)
- "Subversive Poetics": Mary Beaudry's Archaeology of Language (2022)
- Success Stories: the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) for Research, Education, Public Outreach, and Innovation (2016)
- ‘Success to America.’ The Role of British Creamware in the Production of American National Identity. (2016)
- Success vs. Excess: The Historical Archaeology of Rural Outliers (2019)
- Successful Approaches for Sub-Bottom Data and Submerged Paleolandscapes in the Regulatory Gray Zone (2025)
- "A Sudden Flaw of Wind" -The Politics, Prize, and Pottery of the British Sloop of War DeBraak (2018)
- Sulphur Mining in Northern Chile (20th Century): Ghostly Landscapes, Temporal Movement, and the Rhetoric of Nostalgia (2018)
- Sultan: Cleveland’s Grindstone Wreck (2013)
- Sultana: Greatest Maritime Tragedy in United States History: A Nation's Best Kept Secret (2015)
- Summary Findings of Nonadult Osteological Analyses of the 1991 and 1992 Archaeological Excavations at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery 2 (2025)
- Summer 2021 Archaeological Investigations at 19-PL-118/KIN-HA-19/C-21, Kingston, Massachusetts (2022)
- Summer Harvests, Winter Meals: Home Canning at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, NJ (2015)
- Summer on the Range: Excavations at a High Elevation Cattle Line Camp in Western Colorado (2022)
- Sunk – First Results of a Research Project on Tagus Mouth Early Modern Shipwrecks (2023)
- Sunken Aircraft Archaeology Within U.S. National Parks: Lessons Learned from the Documentation of a Submerged WWII B-29 Super Fortress (2014)
- Sunken Aircraft of the Battle of Midway (2017)
- The Sunken Military Craft Inventory: Navy Sinking Exercise (SINKEX) Vessels and the Challenge of Dynamic Research (2016)
- The Sunken Ships of Cartagena Project: Towards the Development of Underwater Archaeology, Research, and Capacity in Colombia (2014)
- Sunken US Navy Submarines: Archaeological Sites And War Graves of the World Wars (2015)
- Superfund Sites: Cleaning up, Mitigating, and Preserving Underwater Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change. (2025)
- "Superior to Any Other House in the South or West": The Daniel Edwards Foundry of New Orleans. (2018)
- Superstition, Ritual, and Religion Among Ancient and Early Modern Seafarers (2019)
- Supporting Community Archaeology through Spatial History (2020)
- Surf and Turf: Understanding Montaukett Economic Strategies through the Whaling Era (2015)
- Surveillance in the Wake of Rebellion in Barbados (2014)
- Survey says…: Using archaeological lenses and conservation assessment tools to influence curation (2019)
- Survival Compasses, Parachutes, LPUs, and More: Life Support as Material Evidence (2017)
- Survivance at the Old Leupp Boarding School Site on the Navajo Reservation, Arizona, USA (2023)
- Surviving ‘despair in its thickest blackness’: Archaeological approaches to visualizing Cherokee Removal (2024)
- Sustainability and Public Archaeology: Michigan State University's Campus Archaeology Program (2015)
- Sustainable Archaeology: The 2017 Estate Little Princess Archaeological Field School in St. Croix (2018)
- Sustainable Heritage Management Strategies at the Nate Harrison Site (2018)
- Sustenance & Style: A Holistic Interpretation of Archaeobotanicals & Artifacts in 19th Century Philadelphia (2020)
- The Suture: Medical Entanglements at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2023)
- The Swash Channel Wreck, Monitoring and Excavations 2007 – 2012. (2013)
- Sweathouses: A Social And Historical Perspective (2023)
- Swedish Imperialism in the North American Middle Atlantic: 1638-2013 (and counting) (2013)
- The Swedish Sailor’s Table (2018)
- Sweet Home Alabama: Evidence of an 18th Century Native American Village at the Chatsworth Plantation Site (16EBR192) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (2018)
- The Sweet Spot: Cultural Identity, Sugar, and Trade Relationships in 17th-Century Dutch and British North America (2023)
- Swept Under the Rug: Strategic Placement of Almshouses in New York City and Philadelphia (2014)
- "Swinging Doors": The Allure & Artifacts of Nineteenth-Century Saloons (2018)
- Swinging Fowl in the Name of the Lord: A Possible Jewish Ritual Sacrifice on the Arkansas Frontier (2014)
- The Swiss Army Knife of the 17th and 18th Century: An Analysis of how Balandras were used in Historic Spanish Salvage Efforts (2022)
- Symbiosis of Fast and Slow Archaeology: A Retrospective Analysis of Historical Archaeology on the Georgia Coast (2020)
- Symbolism, Nationality, Identity and Gender as Interpreted from an Eighteenth Century Ring from French Colonial Context (2014)
- A Sympathetic Connection: The role of sympathy in an archaeology of contemporary homelessness (2017)
- Sympathy For The Loss of a Comrade": Black Citizenship And The 1873 Fort Stockton "Mutiny (2018)
- System Of Environmental Analysis (SEA): An Underwater Environmental Sensor And Its Applications (2018)
- Sámi animal offering rituals in Fennoscandia: Religious change and local responses to colonial contact (2017)
- Tackling Identity from Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives: A Case Study of the Ethnic Identity of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians (2014)
- Tactics and Strategies of Race and Class: Overseer and Enslaved Spatialities on Virginia Plantations. (2019)
- Tagus: the Ribeira das Naus (2023)
- Take Five: The Unexpected in Historical Archaeology (2014)
- "Take Heede When Ye Wash": Laundry and Slavery on a Virginia Plantation (2019)
- Taking A Shot At Late 19th c. Indigenous Sites (2024)
- Taking Down Boundaries, or How to Build an Integrated Archaeology Program (2015)
- Taking it Personally: Personal Items from the Storm Wreck (2016)
- Taking Religion Seriously: Leland Ferguson and the Legacy of God’s Fields (2024)
- Taking the Plunge: Applying Terrestrial Cyber-Archaeology Practices to Underwater Cultural Heritage Research and Conservation (2014)
- Taking Time to Relax: Leisure Activities of Chinese Railroad Workers (2016)
- A Tale of Many Gloucestertowns: Archaeological Clues to the Pre- and Post-Revolutionary War Landscapes at Gloucester Point (2020)
- A Tale of Personal Discovery: A Comparative Analysis of the Emanuel Point, Padre Island, and Santa Clara Shipwrecks (1554-1564) (2020)
- A Tale of Small Cows and Big Cats. Researching the Faunal Remains from the Famous Vasa, While Testing a New GIS Based System for Displaying and Analyzing Butchery Marks on Bones. (2018)
- The Tale of the Musket Ball: Advances in Lead Bullet Analysis Using Live-Fire Validation Studies (2025)
- A Tale Of Two Bastions: A Comparative Analysis Of The West And North Corner Bastions Of St. Mary’s Fort (2025)
- A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Death and Bereavement in Late 19th Century Central Florida (2020)
- A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Examining Nineteenth-Century Cemetery Relocations in Roxbury, Massachusetts (2020)
- A Tale of Two Centerboards: Double Centerboard Sailing Ships of the Great Lakes (2025)
- A Tale of Two Communities: How Grave Markers Illustrate Marginalization and Self-Determination in African American Cemeteries in Eastern North Carolina (2025)
- A Tale Of Two Ditches: Conserving Historic Features On Sapelo Island Georgia (2016)
- A Tale of Two Early Jails: Reconstructing the Archaeological Context at site 8ES1340 in Pensacola, Florida (2020)
- A Tale of Two Giants: Norman, Grecian, and the Great Lakes Steel Revolution (2020)
- A Tale Of Two Pandemics: Comparing Disrupted Mortuary Practices From 1918 And 2020 (2021)
- The Tale of Two Plantations: Uncovering 19th Century Enslaved African American Houses in Western Tennessee (2020)