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. Chicken Toes and Dominoes: Dining and Recreation at Shirley Heights Fort in Antigua, West Indies (2020)
  2. The Chico Chinese: A Story of Chinese Exclusion (2019)
  3. Chiefs and Commandants: Fort Tombecbé and "the Glory of France" in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Gulf South (2023)
  4. The Children at 2925 Richmond Street and the Parents that Raised Them (2022)
  5. The Children of the Ludlow Massacre: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities. (2016)
  6. The Children's Frontier: The Relationship Between the American Frontier Perspective and the Material Culture of Children (2016)
  7. Chinatown 1868 to 1920: Rock Springs, Wyoming (2017)
  8. Chinese Brown Glazed Stonewares from CA-MNT-104 H and Stanford University’s ACLQ (2020)
  9. A Chinese Camp in Nevada’s Cortez Mountains (2017)
  10. A Chinese Coin and Flaked Glass: The Unrecorded History of Smith Cove (2016)
  11. Chinese Diaspora Cuisine And Health (2022)
  12. Chinese Immigrant Life in late-19th-century San Jose, California: Macroremains from Market Street Chinatown (2016)
  13. The Chinese Massacre in Rock Springs, Wyoming and the Archaeological Evidence for the Movement of People affected by this event from 1885 to 1927 (2020)
  14. A Chinese porcelain Sherd of the Transitional Period found in New Mexico (2020)
  15. The Chinese porcelains from the port of San Blas, Mexico (2018)
  16. Chinese Railroad Worker Interments in Nevada and Utah, 1868-1869 (2023)
  17. Chinese Railroad Workers At Central Pacific Stations Ca. 1870s-1880s (2016)
  18. Chinese Railroad Workers in Utah: Connecting Past to Present (2020)
  19. Chinese Railroad Workers in Wyoming and Mongolia, 1890-1955 (2015)
  20. Chinese Trade Networks and Material Culture’s Role in Cultural Change and Continuity around the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century (2014)
  21. The Chocolatera on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Insights into Global Foodways and Economics (2014)
  22. Christchurch: The Most English of New Zealand's Cities? (2016)
  23. Christian Conversion and the Emergence of Local Political Economies in 11th Century Iceland (2023)
  24. Christopher Columbus, New Seville And The Taino Village Of Maima In Jamaica (2016)
  25. A Chronicle of the Historic Military Railroad Corridor at Fort Belvoir (Camp A.A. Humphreys) (2020)
  26. The Chronicles of Storage and Everyday Ceramics: A Comparative Analysis of Pottery from Captive African and African American House Sites in Western Tennessee (2023)
  27. Chronologies of English Ceramic Ware Availability in the 17th-Century Potomac River Valley (2018)
  28. Chuck’s Stomping Grounds and Historical Archaeology’s Haunts: Or, How Charles Orser’s Work Haunts Me (2019)
  29. Church Burials at Risk? Research Ethics and Preservation of Cultural Heritage (2023)
  30. Church mummies in the northern Ostrobothnia, Finland (2015)
  31. The Church on the Hill: Inter-related Narratives and Conflicting Priorities for the Emory Church Property in Washington, D.C. (2017)
  32. The Church on the Hill: Inter-related Narratives, Conflicting Priorities, and the Power of Community Engagement (2016)
  33. Chérrepe in Fragments: Time, Place and Representation in Andeanist Historical Archaeology (2014)
  34. Cidade Velha (Cape Vert) - Africans and Europeans in an Atlantic city. (2013)
  35. The Circle of Trees: a Component of the Greensky Hill Methodist Mission Church Landscape (2018)
  36. The circulation of college crockery in Cambridge, England, c.1760-1950: an urban archaeological tracer dye? (2013)
  37. Citizen Science and the Selfish Archaeologist (2018)
  38. Citizen Science as An Evolving Process: Veteran and Veteran Family Underwater Archaeology Programming (2022)
  39. Citizens Under Arms: Archeological observations on the American Revolution (2013)
  40. City Formation in the Nineteenth Century Eastern United States:  Asheville, North Carolina as an Example of Urban Formation Processes in the Margin. (2013)
  41. "The city is my home": homelessness as resistance to institutionalisation (2013)
  42. The City of Lévis: Linking urban planning with heritage (2014)
  43. City of Today, City of the Past: Permanencies of the Acequias’ Cultural Landscape in the Urban Pattern of San Antonio, Texas (2017)
  44. A Civil War Battlefield: Conflict Archaeology at Natural Bridge, Florida (2016)
  45. Civil War Combat Trenching: What It Was and How to Find It (2016)
  46. Civil War On The Rio Grande: Examples Of Blockade-Runners From Vera Cruz To Galveston (2018)
  47. Claiming a House of Bondage: Examining Spatial Relationships of Domestic Slavery at Montpelier (2015)
  48. Clandestine, Ephemeral, Anonymous? Myths and Actualities of the Intimate Economy of a 19th-Century Boston Brothel (2017)
  49. Class and Status in the British Army at Fort Haldimand (1778–1784) (2015)
  50. A Class Apart. Shifting Attitudes about the Consumption of Fish (2018)
  51. Class Matters: The Historical Archaeology of Class in the American Experience (2013)
  52. Class, Ethnicity, and Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Tenement (2015)
  53. Classification Systems with a Plot: Vessel Forms and Ceramic Typologies in the Spanish Atlantic (2014)
  54. Classifying Small Things Recovered: Clinker And Slag From The Bellows Of Big Man Archaeology (2022)
  55. Clay Fingerprints: The Elemental Identification of Coarse Earthenwares from the Mid-Atlantic (2016)
  56. Clay pipe research in Newfoundland: What works, what doesn’t and what more can be done? (2014)
  57. Clay pipes in Swedish politics and economy, 1650-1850 (2014)
  58. Clay Tobacco Pipes From The Excavation Of The CSS Georgia (2020)
  59. Cleaning Submerged Artillery: Tools and Methods Used to Conserve Cannon from Blackbeard’s Flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (2017)
  60. Cleaning Up "A Blot On Civilization": Examining Archaeological Evidence Of The Medical And Scientific Regulation Of Midwifery During The Progressive Era (2019)
  61. "The Clear Grit of the Old District": Fire Company-Related Artifacts from Fishtown, Philadelphia (2016)
  62. Clifton Park Mansion Archaeology: Henry Thompson, Johns Hopkins, and the City of Baltimore, Maryland (2014)
  63. Climate change and maritime cultural heritage. Perspectives and methodologies of approach in the Island of Tierra Bomba, Cartagena de Indias. (2023)
  64. Climate Change and Textile Production During the Little Ice Age in Iceland and Greenland (2014)
  65. Closing Pandora’s Box: From Salvage Archaeology to In-Situ Preservation of Contact Period Aboriginal Sites in Ontario (2014)
  66. Closing Pandora’s Box: Examining The Long-Term Legacy Of Initiatives To Protect Cultural Heritage During Periods Of Armed Conflict. (2023)
  67. Closing the Gap: Using tDAR’s Data Integration Tool in Research (2016)
  68. Closing the Loop: The Civil War Battle of Honey Springs, Creek Nation, 1863 (2016)
  69. Clothing a Colony : Lead Seals from Early Jamestown (1607-1630) (2023)
  70. Clothing, if not called for within 30 days will be disposed of: The Material Culture of Death Forgotten at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2018)
  71. Clotilda: An Update on the Archaeological Investigations of the Last Known American Slave Ship (2023)
  72. Clusters of Beads: Testing for Time in an Eighteenth Century Well (2018)
  73. Clusters of Beads: Testing for Time on the Carolina Frontier c.1680-1734 (2016)
  74. Coal Camps in the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming: Effective Partnering between Archaeologists, State Agencies and Consulting Engineers (2018)
  75. Coal company towns as early American suburbs. An examination of standardized community construction in Appalachian work camps (2014)
  76. Coal Heritage Archaeology Project 2015 – Preliminary Results & Student Experiences (2016)
  77. Coal Mining and Multigenerational Punishment: Exploring Long-term Health Impacts in Coal Mining Communities (2020)
  78. Coal, Iron and Salt across the North Sea: technological transfer in the 'long Industrial Revolution' (2013)
  79. Coal-fired Power: Household goods, Hegemony, and Social Justice at Appalachian Company Coal Mining Towns (2017)
  80. Coastal Heritage At Risk Task Force-Raising Awareness of Climate Change through Collaboration (2023)
  81. Coastally Adapted: A Model for Eastern Coastal Paleoindian Sites (2020)
  82. Coca Cola Bottles From Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (2023)
  83. Cod Salted, an Essential Commodity of the French Sugar Colonies in the Colonial Period: Zooarchaeological Reality. (2023)
  84. A cod-awful smell: Novel evidence for fisheries management and land use at 17-18th century Ferryland and its social, economic, and sensorial implications (2015)
  85. Coffin Hardware from the Scott Cemetery: a comparison with the Freedman's Cemetery (2017)
  86. Cogs and Cane: The Evolution of Technology at a 19th Century Louisiana Sugar Mill (2015)
  87. A Coin In The Mast Step (2017)
  88. Coinage at French & Indian War Sites in Northern New York State (2017)
  89. “Coined” in the New World: The Conservation and Importance of Coins from a 1559 Spanish Colonization Shipwreck (2014)
  90. Coins In The Fountain: Finding Meaning in Everyday Votive Offerings (2017)
  91. The Coins of Deadwood, S. Dakota (2017)
  92. The Coins of Fort Atkinson: a study in numismatic archaeology. (2017)
  93. The Coins of Kam Wah Chung, John Day, Oregon: Persistence of Chinese Culture Reflected Through Non-Monetary Uses of Chinese coins. (2017)
  94. Cold skin, warm socks? Remade and repurposed Burial Clothing in pre-modern northern Finland (2020)
  95. Coleraine, Co. Londonderry: Past and Present  (2013)
  96. Collaborating with Carpenters: Historic House Care and Archaeology at Strawbery Banke Museum (2017)
  97. Collaboration and Mentorship (2023)
  98. Collaborative Archaeology As Punk Archaeology? Considerations From The Maya Region (2015)
  99. Collaborative Archaeology at the Gage and Cheney Houses (2013)
  100. Collaborative Exhibit Design in Yucatán, Mexico, amid COVID-19 (2021)