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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  • Documents (6,639)
  1. Collecting Ancient Fields: Adapting conflict archaeology to a Roman context. (2018)
  2. Collecting Sápmi - commodification and globalization of Sámi material culture (2014)
  3. Collections Crisis in the Nation’s Capital: Problems and Solutions for the Washington, D.C. Historic Preservation Office (2016)
  4. Collections Management at the National Park Service: The Interior Collections Management System User Satisfaction Survey (2016)
  5. Collective Action in Inter-Theoretical Perspective (2013)
  6. Colonel Addison’s Plantation Revisited (2014)
  7. Colonial America Visits Colonial California: A Scenic Transfer-printed Vessel at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2018)
  8. Colonial architecture from the Cartier-Roberval site (1541-1543), Cap Rouge, Quebec (2014)
  9. Colonial Brunswick Town: Archaeology of an Artificial Economy (2018)
  10. Colonial Encounters and Colonial Economics: Entangled Pequot role shifting in 1620-1770 New England (2014)
  11. Colonial Encounters Reflected by the Contemporary Material Culture – Or What Happened When Miss Finland Wore a Sámi Clothing (2017)
  12. Colonial Encounters, Time and Social Innovation (2013)
  13. Colonial Foodways in Barbados: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes from Trent’s Plantation, 17th-19th centuries (2018)
  14. Colonial Forts in Archaeological Perspective (2023)
  15. Colonial Guyanese Ceramics: A Comparison Between the Production of Two Pottery Workshops (2014)
  16. Colonial Impact on Kanaka Maoli Diaspora and Dispersal (2018)
  17. The colonial landscapes of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, c.1602-1643 (2013)
  18. Colonial Quarantine: Spatialisation and materialisation at the North Head Quarantine Station in Sydney, Australia (2014)
  19. Colonial Stigma in ‘Post’-Colonial Archaeology (2017)
  20. Colonial Subsistence Strategies: Resource Use in English Charleston and Spanish St. Augustine (2014)
  21. The Colonial Village Site at Crown Point: French or English? (2014)
  22. Colonialism and Indigenous Diaspora in the American Northeast (2020)
  23. Colonialism and modernity in medieval (?) Iceland (2020)
  24. Colonialism and the 'Personality of Britain' (2016)
  25. Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the late pre-modern period (2014)
  26. Colonialism, Oral History, and Local Archaeology Experts in the Puuc Region, Yucatán, México (2021)
  27. Colonizers and Colonized: Indigenous Allies and the New Spanish Colonial Culture of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano Settlement on Pensacola Bay, Florida (2023)
  28. Colonowares and Colono-kachinas in the Spanish-American Borderlands: Appropriation and Authenticity in Pueblo Material Culture, 1600-1950 (2016)
  29. The Colony and the City: Contemporary Caribbean Landscapes in Transatlantic Context (2016)
  30. Color-correction and Precise Mesh Reconstruction Methodologies for Underwater Photogrammetic Recording: Step-by-step Explanation of the Professional Workflow (2020)
  31. The "Colored Dead": African American Burying Grounds in a Confederate Stronghold (2018)
  32. The Colors On The Boxer Codex (2018)
  33. The Columbia St. Cemetery Project: A Forgotten Cemetery in Downtown Springfield, Ohio (2019)
  34. Comales and Colonialism - Identifying Colonial Inequality through a Spatial Analysis of Foodways on a Seventeenth Century New Mexican Spanish Estancia. (2017)
  35. "Comanche Land and Ever Has Been": An Indigenous Model of Persistence (2016)
  36. Combatting Gullah Erasure in the Ground and Out of it: Archaeology’s Place in Hilton Head Island (2022)
  37. "Comfort and Satisfaction to All": Excavation of a Nineteenth-Century Coffee House (2017)
  38. Coming in with a Tide, Going out with a Forklift: The Spring Break Shipwreck Project (2019)
  39. Commemorating 400 Years of Community, 1619-2019: Archaeology and Heritage of Slavery and Hacienda in Nasca, Peru (2020)
  40. Commemoration and Contestation: New methodologies in archaeological heritage interpretation at the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite  (2013)
  41. Commemoration of Molly Brant: a Canadian and American dichotomy in memorialization of an Indigenous woman (2023)
  42. Commemorative Hauntings: Race, Ghosts, And Material Culture At A Civil War Prison Camp (2016)
  43. Commerce and Consequences: Considering the Impact of Mexican Independence on Eastern New Mexico (2018)
  44. Commerce With The Colonies: Supplying Domestic Commodities In The City Of Christchurch, New Zealand, 1850-1900 (2023)
  45. Commerce, Cloth and Consumers: Results of Lead Seal Analysis from Three French Colonial Sites in North America (2018)
  46. Commercial Connections in the Chinese Diaspora (2016)
  47. Commercialisation, Contest, Clearance: the Archaeology of pre-Improvement cattle droving in the Scottish Highlands (2013)
  48. Commodification, Taskscapes, And The Alienation From Landscape At The Biry House In Castroville, Texas (2019)
  49. Commodities and Curiosities: Colonial Botany at Jamestown (2023)
  50. Commoditization, Consumption and Interpretive Complexity: The Contingent Role of Cowries in the Early Modern World (2016)
  51. Commodity Culture: the formation, exchange, and negotiation of Early Republican Period identity on a periphery of the Spanish Empire in Western El Salvador (2017)
  52. A Common Denominator: The Materiality of Information in the Pacific China Trade, 1785-1825 (2023)
  53. Common Men in Uncommon Times: Examining Archaeological and Historical Evidence to Reconstruct the Daily Lives of Civil War Sailors (2015)
  54. A Common Standard – Methodological Considerations and Reflections on Best Practice in Digital Nautical Archaeology (2023)
  55. Communicating Local: The Role Of Mediated Documents In The Articulation Of Values Within The City Of York (2016)
  56. Communities in Conflict: Racialized Violence During Gradual Emancipation on Long Island (2016)
  57. Communities of Culture on the Early American Frontier: Investigating the Daniel Baum Family, Carroll County, Indiana (2018)
  58. Community Accountable Archaeology at Old Leupp (2023)
  59. Community and Commerce: Investigations at African American-Owned Stores in the Community of Needwood, Georgia (2022)
  60. Community and Consumption: Immigrant Lives at Eckley Miners' Village (2021)
  61. Community Archaeology and Collaborative Interpretation at a Rosenwald School (2018)
  62. Community Archaeology and the Criminal Past: Exploring a Detroit Speakeasy (2016)
  63. Community Archaeology at a Neighborhood Scale in Boston's Chinatown (2020)
  64. Community Archaeology in Action: The Partnership Between NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and the Battle of the Atlantic Research and Expedition Group (2016)
  65. Community Archaeology on a Social Housing Estate in the Early 21st Century: Middlefield Lane, Gainsborough (UK) (2018)
  66. Community Archaeology, Essentializing Identity, and Racializing the Past (2018)
  67. Community Based Participatory Research in Hawaiian Historical Archaeology (2022)
  68. Community Collaboration is Commemoration at the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters (2020)
  69. Community Conservation: A ‘Hands-On’ Approach for Bringing the Rhetoric of Preservation to the People! (2014)
  70. Community Conservation: A ‘Hands-On’ Approach for Bringing the Rhetoric of Preservation to the People! (2014)
  71. Community Displacement and the Creation of a 'City Beautiful' at Roosevelt Park, Detroit (2016)
  72. Community Engagement in Underwater Archaeology: The LaSalle-Griffon Project (2014)
  73. Community Formation, Consumption, and Gender at Camp Nelson’s ‘Home for Colored Refugees’ (2013)
  74. Community Heritage Management and Rescue Archaeology in the 21st Century (2014)
  75. Community Involvement in the Management of Submerged Cultural Resources on Lake Champlain (2019)
  76. Community Networks at the Stanford Arboretum Chinese Workers’ Quarters (2016)
  77. The Community of Chase Home: Institutional and Material Components of Children’s Lived Spaces in Victorian Portsmouth (2016)
  78. Community, Archaeology and Public Heritage in Telford - an English New Town (2013)
  79. Community, Conflict and Archaeology in Acre, Israel (2014)
  80. Community, Identity, and Murder in Dedham, Massachusetts: The Fairbanks Family’s Response to the Jason Fairbanks Trial (2014)
  81. Community-Based Archaeology in the Bahamas: Linking Landscape and Memory (2018)
  82. Community-Based Explorations of "Schooling" at the Grand Ronde Reservation (2018)
  83. Como la paja del páramo: Everyday Traditions on the Hacienda Guachalá, Ecuador (2016)
  84. The Company’s Feast: Commensality And Managerial Capitalism (2016)
  85. Comparative Analysis And Chemical Characterization Of Iron And Steel Blades And Tools From Trents Cave and Enslaved Laborer Contexts At Trents Plantation, Barbados (2020)
  86. A Comparative Analysis of a Potential Tavern Site in Jackson, North Carolina (2015)
  87. Comparative Analysis of Confederate Ironclad Steam Engines, Boilers, and Propulsion Systems: A Thesis Made Possible by the Port Columbus Civil War Naval Museum (2014)
  88. Comparative Analysis of Data Sets from Deepwater Surveys: Archaeological, Geological, and Biological Encounters in the Gulf of Mexico (2014)
  89. Comparative Analysis of Leper Hospital Landscapes on St. Croix and St. Kitts (2022)
  90. A Comparative Analysis of Plant Use at Five Colonial Chespeake Sites, 1630-1720 (2022)
  91. Comparative Analysis of the Ceramic Assemblage from the Anniversary Wreck, St. Augustine, Florida (2018)
  92. Comparative Analysis Of Waterscreening Soil From A French Colonial Living Floor In St. Charles, Missouri (2016)
  93. Comparative Archaeological Analysis of Ship Rigging During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2016)
  94. The Comparative Archaeology of Anglo-American Slavery Regimes: Reconsidering the Chesapeake from the Perspective of Bermuda (2013)
  95. Comparative Ceramics Analysis of Enslaved Contexts at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2017)
  96. A Comparative Examination of the Dietary Practices of British and French Occupants of New France. (2016)
  97. A Comparative Investigation of Plantation Spatial Organization on Two British Caribbean Sugar Estates (2013)
  98. A Comparative Study of African American Identity Creation in Antebellum New Jersey (2016)
  99. A Comparative Study of Dutch and British Ship Speeds from 1750-1850 (2015)
  100. Comparative Study Of Site Formation Processes In Intertidal Contexts In The Bay Of Cartagena De Indias (Colombia) (2023)