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)
- Underwater Archaeology Through the Ages (2019)
- Underwater Archaeology, Conservation, and New Technologies: the Case of Contrecoeur Shipwreck (2025)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage is Integral to Marine Ecosystems (2025)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Law Study (2014)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Law: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2016)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage sites on the way to be listed as World Heritage: To ratify the 2001 Convention or not? (2014)
- Underwater cultural heritage survey in Lagos Bay, Portugal (2014)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Survey in the Parishes of Cascais and Oeiras, Portugal (2014)
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Training Programs Aimed at Increasing Professional Capacity: the UNESCO Foundation and Advanced courses Held Between 2009 and 2012 in Thailand for the Asia - Pacific Region (2013)
- Underwater Forensic Archaeological Excavation of an Aircraft Wreck Site using Saturation Diving Capabilities (2025)
- Underwater Heritage Conservation and Climate Change in Canada (2023)
- Underwater Historic Preservation for Sport Divers: Florida’s Training Courses for Divers and Diving Leadership (2015)
- Underwater Imaging of a 17th-Century Mill Pond: Innovative Canoe Surveys Utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar (2022)
- Underwater in the High Desert: Exploring Site Presence and Preservation on Drowned and Buried Lake Features (2018)
- Underwater Mobile: An Investigation of Three Civil War-Era Ironclads (2022)
- Underwater Probing and Remote-Sensing Investigations of Two Prehistoric Shell Middens, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana (2025)
- Underwater Survey Methods in Low to Zero Visibility (2020)
- Underwater Survey of the Historic Anchorage for Portsmouth, Dominica (2015)
- Underworld Archaeology: Exploring a Rumored Detroit Speakeasy (2014)
- Understanding Rural and Urban Privy Vaults: An Overview of their Utilization and Morphological Transformation Through Time. (2016)
- The Undine, A Tea Clipper in the Savannah River (2016)
- Unearthed Legacies: Community-Driven Insights into Coffin Hardware from the Old Canaan Baptist Cemetery (2025)
- Unearthing Black Ecologies in Lenapehoking (2024)
- Unearthing Complex Urban Landscapes in Colonial Australia: The Parramatta Light Rail Project (2023)
- Unearthing Narratives from an Appalachian Hollow: The Benefits of Environmental Mitigation Banking in Cultural Resource Management (2016)
- Unearthing Quality: Assessing Archaeology Lessons by Educators (2025)
- Unearthing Sandpoint’s Chinatown: the Archaeology of Sandpoint, Idaho’s Overseas Chinese (2015)
- Unearthing Scandinavia’s Colonial Past (2016)
- Unearthing Their Lives: Documenting the Evolution of African American Life at Clover Bottom and Beyond (2016)
- Unethical Pasts, Uncertain Presents, and Potential Futures: The Evolution of Archaeological Representation in Video Games (2017)
- Uneven Landscapes, Uneven Histories: Maroons in the American Historical Narrative (2017)
- An Unexamined Archaeological Project Is Not Worth Continuing: Critical Considerations for the Multidisciplinary I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeological Project (2024)
- Unexpected Discovery: An 18th-Century Cannon Cluster Site in the Savannah River (2023)
- Unexpected Results for X-Ray Fluorescence Applications in Zooarchaeological Research (2014)
- An Unexpected Spark: The Seaport Shipwreck Shines a Light on Seaport History (2020)
- "Unidentified Planes Sighted": The Application of KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis to Aerial Combat (2018)
- Uniform Buttons from the Site of CSS Georgia (2017)
- Unintended Consequences of Digitalization in Archaeology: A Cautionary Tale (2018)
- Union Occupation of the Frazer Farmstead (15Hr42) during the American Civil War (2014)
- The Unique Architecture of the Quarters for Enslaved African Americans at Belvoir (2020)
- United by Process, Divided by Everything Else: Caddo and Settler Saltmaking at the Holman Springs Site, Sevier County, Arkansas (2024)
- United States Virgin Islands Tropical Hardwoods Debris Reuse Guidelines: An Example of Collaboration Among Federal and Territorial Disaster Response/Recovery Partners Addressing a Unique Category of Community Cultural Assets (2025)
- Unity in Diversity?: A Synthetic Approach to 21st-Century Historical Archaeology (2019)
- The University of West Florida: 2019 Archaeological Field Schools (2020)
- UNL Campus Archaeology: Consumption Patterns in an Early Lincoln Neighborhood (2019)
- UNL Campus Archaeology: Student-led Research and Public Engagement (2019)
- Unloading History: Schooner-Barges, Self-Unloaders, and the Development of a Modern Maritime Landscape (2015)
- Unloading History: Self-Unloaders and the Evolution of Maritime Industrial Landscapes in the Great Lakes (2020)
- Unlocking The Potential Of Ceramic Residue Analysis To Explore Islamic Cuisine In Medieval Spain (2023)
- Unmasking Joppa Town: Attempting to locate a colonial port town near Baltimore (2021)
- Unnoticed All His Worth, a Dog Burial at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
- ‘Unraveling the Mystery of ‘Building X,’ George Washington’s Alleged Birthplace’ (2014)
- Unraveling the Use of Yards: Synthesizing Data from Monticello’s North and South Yard Excavations (2016)
- Unroofed, Uprooted, and Unapologetic: Homelessness in Washington D.C. from 1890-1930 (2018)
- Unruly Bodies, Holistic Healing: Balancing the Understanding of the Health and Well-being of the Enslaved at James Madison’s Montpelier (2021)
- Untamed Ecologies And Fugitive Geographies In Colonial Dominica, 1763 – 1978 (2025)
- Untangling a "Jesuit" Ring from Virginia’s Coan Hall (2021)
- "…The untarnished honor of our ancestors…": Transforming Landscape and Memory at James Monroe’s Highland (2021)
- Unusual Can Types from the Cortez Mining District, Nevada (2018)
- Unveiling the Colonial Legacy in the Chota Valley, Ecuador: The 20th Century Mascarilla Sugar Mill (2025)
- "Unwanted Guests": Evidence of Parasitic Infections in Archaeological Mortuary Contexts (2017)
- Up and Down the Mountain: Exploring differential access within Monticello’s enslaved community (2018)
- Up Close and Personal: feeling the past at urban historical archaeological sites (2014)
- Up Close and Personal: Objects as Expressions of Identity at the Abiel Smith School (2018)
- Up From the Ruins: archaeology in the making in São Tomé (São Tomé e Príncipe) (2024)
- "Up Pops The Monitor": The Battle Of Hampton Roads In Popular Culture (2017)
- An Update from southern Iroquoia (2014)
- An Update from southern Iroquoia (2014)
- Update to Management of Upper Shipwreck Sites Along FKNMS Shipwreck Trail (2022)
- Update: Characteristics of Seventeen Cannon from the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), Savannah, Georgia. (2025)
- Updated Archaeological Documentation of the Shipwreck Galleon Santíssimo Sacramento (1668) according to the interpretation of the Shipwreck Site Formation Process. (2023)
- Updated Findings on Mary Washington’s Repaired Ceramics: Results of Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Experimental Archaeology (2014)
- Updates and Progress of the Ongoing Public Oriented Cultural Resource Monitoring Program (2017)
- Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks: Ongoing Investigations of Vessels from Luna’s 1559 Fleet (2020)
- Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Luna Shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay, Florida (2025)
- Updates on the Ongoing Emanuel Point Shipwreck Investigations (2023)
- Updating the Outdated for Understanding: Creating 3D models for the Smithsonian Chebacco boats. (2020)
- Updating Washington, DC’s Archaeology Guidelines (2025)
- Upland Box Tombs: Southern Variants on a Popular Nineteenth Century Grave Cover (2016)
- Urban Archaeological Landscapes in Laranjeiras, Sergipe State, Brazil (2014)
- Urban Archaeology Along St. Augustine’s Shorelines: Past and Future Challenges (2020)
- Urban Archaeology and Historical Archaeology in the cities, a controversy still present in Latin America (2014)
- Urban Archaeology and Historical Archaeology in the cities, a controversy still present in Latin America (2014)
- Urban Archaeology in the City of the Saints and the Growth of a Real Frontier City (2015)
- Urban Archaeology, Preservation, and Collaboration on the Minneapolis Riverfront (2020)
- The Urban Archeology Corps: A partnership between Groundwork Anacostia and the National Park Service (2013)
- Urban Casualties: Work-Related Injuries and Healing among Irish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century New York City (2013)
- An Urban Context for the Study of Colonialism: Québec City (2020)
- Urban development and transformation on Amsterdam’s waterfront, 1590-1900 (2014)
- Urban Displacement in Detroit and the Erasure of African American Communities (2019)
- Urban Foodways in a Multicultural Environment: Faunal Remains from Early 20th-Century Sites in Detroit, Michigan (2025)
- Urban Life Through the Lens of Glass: A Brief Analysis of Glass Tableware and Flaked Objects from the 19th Century San Jose Market Street Chinatown, California (2015)
- Urban Livestock in New Orleans: The Zooarchaeology of the French Quarter and Treme (2018)
- Urban material culture in Copenhagen in the post medieval period (2013)
- US 301 Project Archaeology and Historic Context Development in Delaware (2016)
- US Route 301 Predictive Modeling (2016)
- Usable Aid: Refugee Resettlement in Post-Partition Delhi (2020)
- USACE National Regionalization Effort: Recovering the Bygone Collections (2022)
- USCS Paddle Steamer Robert J. Walker, 1847-1860: Historical and Archaeological Research, Diver and Fisher Knowledge, and the Remote Sensing Search. (2016)
- Use of Animals at the Laurens North Site, the Location of Fort de Chartres III in the Illinois Country (2014)