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 • Slavery • Colonialism • Public Archaeology • Ceramics • Identity • Plantation • Material Culture • Shipwrecks

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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  1. Case Study: Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Assess the Accuracy of Historical Maps at a Rice Plantation on the Santee River Delta in South Carolina (2020)
  2. Cast A'Shore: Researching the Fate of Blackbeard's Crew (2016)
  3. Casting a Net into the Chinese Diaspora of the Bay Area (2018)
  4. Castle House Coop: Unmasking an Artist's Space (2018)
  5. Castles and Courthouses: Creating an Interactive Self-Guided Tour of Germanna (2023)
  6. The Castro Colonies Heritage Association's Living History Center: An Introduction to the Archaeological Project (2017)
  7. Casualties, Corrosion, and Climate Change: USS Arizona and Potentially Polluting Shipwrecks (2017)
  8. Catawba Foodways at Old Town: Loss and Discard of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (2016)
  9. Catawba Foodways: Exploring Native and Colonial Influences (2013)
  10. Categorizations of Identity in Settler Colonial Contexts: Unpacking Métis as Mixed in the Archaeological Record (2018)
  11. Categorizing and Analyzing Age: Historical Bioarchaeology and Childhood (2016)
  12. Catholic Health Care in the Wild West: A Case Study of Saint Mary’s Hospital in Virginia City, Nevada (2013)
  13. Catholic Parishes and Colonization: A Frontier Parish in Grand Bay, Dominica (2015)
  14. Catoctin Furnace: Academic Research Informing Heritage Tourism (2016)
  15. Cats and Dogs in Late 18th Century Philadelphia Society (2019)
  16. The Cattewater Wreck Archive Project (2013)
  17. Cattewater Wreck: Re-interpretation and the Dog Puppet Project (2020)
  18. Cattle Husbandry Practices at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest: the Relationships Between Environment, Economy, and Enslavement (2017)
  19. Cattle In Charleston And South Carolina's Lowcountry (2017)
  20. Cattle management, Archives, and Geoarchaeology: Using Documentary Data to Understand the Role of Cattle Management in Transforming Puerto Rican Environments (2018)
  21. Cattle Power: From Domestication to Ranching (2017)
  22. Cattle Ranching and O’odham Communities in the Pimería Alta: Zooarchaeological and Historical Perspectives (2017)
  23. Caught on Camera: Recognizing Archeological Artifacts in Historic Photographs (2020)
  24. Cave Paintings From the Sixteenth Century: Representations of Contact Period in the Town of Atzala, North of Guerrero (2022)
  25. Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail (2020)
  26. Cedar Shakes, Red Clay Bricks, and the Great Fire: Walloon-Speaking Belgians on Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula (2013)
  27. The ceiling of the Santos Palace in Lisbon and its Importance as a Historical Document. (2021)
  28. Celebrating the National Historic Preservation Act: The Making Archaeology Public Project (2016)
  29. Cellar Sumps and Moisture Management: 18th and 19th Century Drainage Features (2018)
  30. Cemeteries as Classrooms: Creating a Relevant and Sustainable Archaeology Education Program (2021)
  31. Cemetery Vandalism: The Selective Manipulation Of Information (2017)
  32. Census of the Anguilla Heritage Trail: Site Assessment of Ten Sites Struck by a Category 5 Hurricane in Anguilla, BWI. (2020)
  33. Centering the Margins of "History": Reading Material Narratives of Identity Along the Edges of the Colonial Southeast (ca. 1650-1720) (2019)
  34. Centers of Exchange: Comparing Virginia's Northern Neck and Maryland's Potomac Valley (2023)
  35. A Century of Ceramics: A Study of Household Practice on the Eastern Pequot Reservation (2018)
  36. A Ceramic Analysis of a 19th Century Michigan Boarding House (2015)
  37. Ceramic Production on Barbados Plantations: Seasonality Explored (2016)
  38. Ceramic Research is Alive and Well (2016)
  39. Ceramic Spatial Patterning at Paraje San Diego on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, New Mexico (2018)
  40. Ceramics and Socioeconomic Status: Insights from Janis-Ziegler Site (23SG272), Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (2019)
  41. Ceramics and the Study of Ethnicity: A Case Study from Schoharie County, New York (2016)
  42. Ceramics used in the Paris and Ile aristocratic circles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries according to archaeological sources (2014)
  43. Ceramics, Foodways, and Identity in Bocas del Toro, Panama (2017)
  44. Ceremonial Landscapes in the Middle Chesapeake (2019)
  45. Certifying Success: Sport Divers, Citizen Science, and Sustainability (2020)
  46. The Challenge of the Arctic (2014)
  47. Challenges and Opportunities for the Heritage at Risk Community (2019)
  48. The Challenges of Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
  49. Challenges to Record, and Preserve, Intertidal Wrecks in the Province of Bizkaia (Basque Country, Spain) (2023)
  50. Challenging Aircraft Crash Sites: Excavating Deep and Wide (2017)
  51. Challenging Landscapes: Alternate Perspectives of Chesapeake Plantation Gardens (2013)
  52. Challenging Legacies of Modern Colonialism: Intertwined Heritage Management and Archaeological Research Practices in San Julian Bay, Patagonia (2023)
  53. Chamber Pots’ Function: Utilitarian, Aesthetic or Status? (2021)
  54. Champagne and Angostura Bitters: Entertaining at a Galapagos Sugar Plantation, 1880-1904 (2016)
  55. Change, Continuity and Foodways: The Persistence of Indigenous Identity at Mission Santa Clara (2020)
  56. Changes and Choices in Heiltsuk Consumption of Euro-American Goods at Old Bella Bella, BC, 1833-1899 (2015)
  57. Changes in animal use in the Modern Period of Portugal (2013)
  58. Changes in Bone Density During the Post-Mortem Interval for the Individuals of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
  59. Changes in the structure of village settlement in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods in South Bohemia as a result of transformations in land use systems (2013)
  60. Changing Attitudes and Approaches to Shipwreck Archaeology in the Caribbean (2018)
  61. Changing conceptions of significance, importance, and value—moving beyond the "research exception" in Section 106 archaeology (2016)
  62. Changing Courses, Changing Fortunes: An Historical And Archaeological Exploration Of A Mississippi River Boomtown (2018)
  63. The Changing Face of Manhattan: From Forested Hills to City Hall Park (2014)
  64. The changing fiscal landscape of early nineteenth-century New England: State-chartered banks and the access to capital (2014)
  65. Changing foodways as a reflection of identity in a 19th-century Upper Canada household: the Ashbridge Estate in Toronto (2014)
  66. Changing Identity and Foodways in Colonial New Mexico (2020)
  67. The Changing Landscape of Indian Camp, a piedmont Virginia plantation (2014)
  68. The Changing Shape of Chickasaw-European Battlefield Narratives (2020)
  69. Changing Systems of Labor and the (Re)Production of Identity (2014)
  70. Changing Times, Changing Tastes: A Comparison of 18th and 19th Century Consumption Patterns at James Madison's Montpelier (2019)
  71. Characterizing the Deceased Mariners of the Swedish Warship Vasa: An Analysis of Personal Possessions Found in Association with Human Remains (2018)
  72. Charcoal Burners on the Pancake Range: Charcoal Production in Eastern Nevada during the late 19th century (2014)
  73. Charity and Integration: the Archaeology of Jewish Soup Kitchens  (2013)
  74. Charles Aubert sites and the ports of Québec during the XVIIth century (2014)
  75. Charles K. Landis: the Archaeology of the Macro- and Micro-Aspects of Creativity (2013)
  76. Charles Orser and his Contributions to the Brazilian Historical Archaeology (2019)
  77. Charleston, South Carolina and Beyond (2018)
  78. Charleston’s Walled City Project: Collaboration and Collegiality with Martha Zierden (2022)
  79. Charlottes, Commies, and China Dishes: The Abundance of Children’s Toys from The Hermitage (2018)
  80. Charting Intention: Place and Power on Virginia’s Earliest Maps (2017)
  81. Chasing Rabbits: Investigating Domesticated Leporids at Jefferson’s Monticello (2020)
  82. Chasing the Gradient: A New Diver-Held Tool for Locating Buried Shipwreck Remains in Magnetically Challenging Environments (2020)
  83. Chawan and Yunomi: Japanese Tablewares Recovered from Three Issei Communities in the American West (2017)
  84. Che Research at the Nexus Between History and Prehistory (2014)
  85. Cheap ROV-based Photogrammetry Survey Methodology (2023)
  86. Chebacco: The Boat that Built Essex (2018)
  87. Checking In: An Examination of the Pend d'Oreille Hotel (2018)
  88. Chemical Analysis Of Artifacts Related To The Chinese Diaspora In The American West (2022)
  89. Chemical Analysis of Small Sealed Metal Containers from the Harrison Site (2020)
  90. Chemical Mapping in Marine Archaeology: Defining Site Characteristics from Passive Environmental Sensors. (2017)
  91. The Chemical Secrets of the Middens (2020)
  92. Chemists to Cowboys: Labour Identity in Corporate Agriculture in the San Emigdio Hills, California (2016)
  93. The Chena Townsite, a Gold Rush Settlement in Interior Alaska (2022)
  94. The CHERISH Toolkit: Investigating Heritage and Climate Change in Coastal and Maritime Environments. Case Studies from Wales and Ireland. (2023)
  95. Cherokee Community Coalescence in East Tennessee (2018)
  96. "Cherry-Picking" the Material Record of Border Crossings: Artifact Selection and Narrative Construction Among Non-Migrants (2015)
  97. Chesapeake Flotilla: America’s Defense of the Bay (2017)
  98. Chicago’s Gray House as Underground Railroad Station?: Narrating Resistance, 1856-present (2018)
  99. A Chicana Archaeology of the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico (2020)
  100. ‘Chicken Bones and Bags of Dirt’: Virginia’s Survey to Discover What’s Stored Where and Why (2014)