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 6,901-7,000 of 7,550)
- Documents (7,550)
- Tribal Engagement in Virginia: Lessons Learned from Section 106 Consultation (2024)
- TricTrac, Pitch and Toss, and Other Games: The Contexts of Handmade Ceramic Disks in New Netherland (2022)
- The Trinidad and Tobago Mission 2022: A Sunken B-25 and a New Partnership between the University of Miami and DPAA (2023)
- Trinity Burial Ground, Kingston upon Hull: Archaeological Investigations in Association with the A63 Castle Street Improvement Scheme (2023)
- The Trolley Problem: Which Ones Do We Save? (2025)
- A Tropical Wave in the Atlantic World: The Comparative Colonial Caribbean Archaeology of Dr. Marley R. Brown III (2015)
- Troubadour the Search, Discovery and Legacy of a Slave Ship (2023)
- The Trouble in River City (It’s Not Pool!) (2016)
- The Trouble With The Curve: Reassessing The Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Rise Model (2018)
- A Troublesome Tenant in the Gore by the Road: The Cardon/Holton Farmstead Site 7NC-F-128 (2016)
- Trowels for Plowshares: Experimental Archaeology, Public Engagement, and 19th Century American Agricultural Practices (2018)
- ‘The True Spirit of Service’: Toys as Tools of Ideology at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls (2018)
- "The Truth in Every Myth is the Pearl in Every Oyster": Narratives of Chesapeake Bay Oystermen (2023)
- The Truth is Out There: The Masking and Lure of Fringe Archaeology (2016)
- "The Trvve Picture of One Picte": Exploring the Colonial Roots of Pictish Archaeology (2023)
- Trying Out a Name: Using Whaling-related Artifacts to Ascertain a Ship’s Identity (2024)
- Tuning In To Public Archaeology (2016)
- Tupinambá, Dutch and Portuguese in Colonial Brazil: preliminary thoughts on the Guaibituguçu archaeological site, Alagoas (2023)
- Turning Inwards: Collections-Driven Research and the Vitality of the Discipline (2014)
- Turning the Archaeology of Colonialism on its Head (2014)
- The Turtlers of Early 18th Century Grand Cayman (2020)
- Turtles in the Tidewater: an Ecological and Social Perspective on Turtle Consumption in the Antebellum South (2016)
- THE TWELVE APOSTLES: CONCEPTION, OUTFITTING, AND HISTORY OF 16th-CENTURY SPANISH GALLEONS (2016)
- Twelve Days at Sea: Preliminary Results of the 2019 Geophysical Survey Campaign of Submerged Pre-Contact Landscapes in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (2020)
- Twenty Years of Navy Shipwrecks--1996 to 2016! (2016)
- Twice Buried at Stenton: GPR in an Urban Family Cemetery (2020)
- Two Atlantic Worlds Collide in Arkansas: Spanish Coins from the 1830s Mercantile District in Historic Washington, Arkansas (2014)
- Two British Atlantic World Port City Taverns: The Materiality of Public Space and the Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere (2019)
- Two Decades of Struggle and Revitalization of the Pantheon of Afro-descendant Ancestors "Garden of Memory Martina Carrillo" (Valle del Chota, Carchi-Ecuador) (2025)
- Two Meals for Two Tables: Comparing the Diets of Free and Enslaved Washingtons (2015)
- Two Models for Volunteer-Driven Underwater Archaeology in Lake Erie (2019)
- Two TBD-1s Devastators BuNo. 0298 and BuNo 1515; Fifteen Years of In Situ Monitoring, Documentation and Planning. (2020)
- Two Wrecks In A Historic Careenage : The Case For Identification Of The Deadman's Island and Town Point Shipwrecks In Pensacola Bay, Florida. (2019)
- Two Wrecks In An Historic Careenage: The Case For Identification Of The Deadman’s Island And Town Point Shipwrecks In Pensacola Bay, Florida (2020)
- TxDOT and the Bolivar Archaeological Project: Collaborative Archaeology in North Texas (2025)
- TxDOT: Revealing African American History in the State of Texas (2017)
- Typologies of Consumption: Examining consumer behaviour through an analysis of the inherent qualities of material culture (2013)
- The U.S. Naval Brig Somers: A Mexican War Shipwreck of 1846 (2016)
- The U.S. Route 301 Archaeology Program in Delaware: Excavations, Historic Contexts, and Syntheses (2016)
- UAV LiDAR Survey at La Soye, Dominica (2023)
- Ugly Duckling and Work Horse: A Mid-19th Century Lighter from San Francisco Bay’s Yerba Buena Cove and Its Scale Model (2015)
- Un Canari dans la Cuisine: What Ceramic Cookware Shows about Enslaved Cooks in Colonial Guadeloupe, French West Indies (2014)
- Un lot de céramiques du milieu du XVIIe siècle à Toulouse (France) (2014)
- Un travail de longue haleine: Vingt ans de préservation des vestiges du Elizabeth and Mary (2014)
- The Un-Internable; The Enduring Material Legacies of the Domoto Family (2014)
- The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Archaeological Research: Examples from the Comparative Study of New World English Colonial Capitals (2014)
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Samples: Re-Evaluating the Curation of Legacy Environmental Material (2024)
- The Uncertainty of Sailing: "Hidden" Coin Hoards from Late Imperial Roman Shipwrecks (2020)
- "Unclaimed": The Making of (Un)grievable Lives in the Huntington Archive (2023)
- Uncovering an Unusual Feature: Contextualizing Coan Hall’s Site 3 (2022)
- Uncovering and Interpreting Plantation Life through Long-Term Collaborative Efforts at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2020)
- Uncovering and Interpreting the Acequia Madre at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2020)
- Uncovering Evidence of Consumer Constraint in Archaeological Assemblages Using r-Matrices (2017)
- Uncovering German Identity on the Colonial Virginia Frontier (2017)
- Uncovering Historic Burial Types at the Alamo Church: Insights from 2019–2020 Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project at Mission San Antonio de Valero, Bexar County, Texas, USA (2025)
- Uncovering Landscapes in Transition: The Search for the Hospital at Confederate Conscription Camp #1, Camp Watts, Notasulga, Alabama. (2025)
- Uncovering Marginalized Communities in South Lumber Mill Towns (2025)
- Uncovering Mining Company Habitation Sites Through Public Archaeology (2022)
- Uncovering Nashville’s African-American Heritage: The Bass Street Community Archaeology Project (2024)
- Uncovering the "Lost Land": The Archaeology of Conspiracism and New Age Spirituality in Southern British Columbia (2023)
- Uncovering the Covered Path: An Explanation of the Excavations of the Servant’s Pathway and Cryptoporticus at The Woodlands, West Philadelphia, PA. (2022)
- Uncovering the Southern Pacific Railroad: 2011 Excavations at Los Angeles State Historic Park of the River Station in Los Angeles, California (2014)
- Under the Concretion: Examining New Evidence for H.L. Hunley’s Attack on USS Housatonic (2018)
- Under the Corset: Health, Hygiene, and Maternity in Boston’s North End (2014)
- Underground Then as Now: Seeking Traces of the Underground Railroad in the Mount Gilead AME Church Cemetery (2015)
- Underpinning a Plantation: A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at Mount Vernon Plantation (2016)
- Understanding 19th Century Indigenous River-Portage Travel in Maine and New Brunswick Through Network Analysis (2017)
- Understanding a Post-Emancipation Haiti: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 19th Century Plant Remains at the Palace of Sans-Souci (2023)
- Understanding African American Archaeology and Archaeological Education in Washington, DC through the Influences of Booker T. Washington (2014)
- Understanding And Interpreting Indigenous Places And Landscapes (2016)
- Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2023)
- Understanding Historic Health: How 19th Century San Francisco Death Records Supplement Archaeology (2024)
- Understanding Home-Making and Urban Landscape Creation in Montgomery, Alabama (2020)
- Understanding How To Interpret UW Riverine And Marine Magnetic Targets For Site Identification And Protection - Early Examples. (2024)
- Understanding Maritime Cultural Resources Within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (2020)
- Understanding Maritime Heritage Through The Iterative Use Of Geophysics and Diving (2018)
- Understanding Past and Present Cochineal Production in the Canary Islands (2014)
- Understanding Public Perceptions Of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2014)
- Understanding Settlement, Industry, and Indigenous Presence in the 19th Century: Dakota Scrip in Nevada and Beyond (2025)
- Understanding the African-Caribbean Landscape of the Wallblake Estate, Anguilla. (2018)
- Understanding the Battlefield Terrain: Components of the Battlefield Archeological Landscape (2016)
- Understanding the Culture of Teaching and Learning: The Role Evaluation Played in Developing a Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter Case Study (2018)
- Understanding the Expressions of "UnFreedom" at the Montpelier Plantation’s Home Farm (2023)
- Understanding the Florence Stockade Guard Camp (2023)
- Understanding the Irish Famine Using Deep Neural Networks and Protolanguage (2017)
- Understanding The Material And Spatial Strategies Of Border Crossers Through Water Bottles And Beverage Containers (2015)
- Understanding the Materials and Methods Used in the Construction of the 1617 Church at Jamestown, Virginia (2020)
- Understanding the Placement of LA 20,000, a Spanish Colonial Settlement Located in New Mexico (2015)
- Understanding the Tulsa race massacre: An Archaeology of Black Love and Liberation (2025)
- Understanding Variation in Utilitarian Ceramic Assemblages of the Chesapeake: The Impacts of Local Production (2013)
- Understanding Your Neighbor: An Analysis of Mixed-Use Immigrant Households in Nineteenth Century Port Richmond (2020)
- The Undertold Stories of African American Blacksmiths in Texas and the Role of Collaborative Archaeology in the Rediscovery of Tom Cook (2025)
- The Underwater Archaeology of Red Bay, Labrador: A Large-Scale Project Conducted in Sub-Arctic Waters (2014)
- Underwater 3D Imaging with Structured Light: Implications for Ethics and Economics (2015)
- Underwater and Intertidal Archaeology of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (France) (2020)
- Underwater Archaeological And Forensic Investigations Carried Out At Großer Glasowsee, Brandenburg/Germany (2023)
- Underwater Archaeological Investigations of a 16th Century Shipwreck in the Dominican Republic (2023)
- Underwater Archaeological Parks in Greece: The Case Studies of Methoni Bay-Sapientza Island and the Northern Sporades – Moving From A Culture of Prohibition Towards a Culture of Engagement (2013)
- Underwater Archaeology in Cuba: a Critical Review (2017)
- Underwater Archaeology Skills, Training, and Opportunities in U.S. Colleges: The 2017 ACUA University Benchmarking Survey (2018)