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. Archaeological and Archival Investigations into the Role of Anguillan Black Sailors in 17-19th Century Maritime Networks of Trade and Self-liberation. (2023)
  2. Archaeological And Archival Investigations Of A Norwegian Farmstead In Bosque County, Texas (2018)
  3. Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations of Cook’s Fort (1774-1783), Monroe County, West Virginia (2022)
  4. Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield, Taylor County, Kentucky (2015)
  5. An archaeological approach to historic shipwrecks in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (2013)
  6. Archaeological Artifacts Of Anémone : Signature Of A Ship Of A Naval Ship Used As A Custom Ship In Lesser Antilles ? (2023)
  7. Archaeological Considerations In The Study Of The Anthropocene (2016)
  8. Archaeological Context of Jamestown’s Starving Time (2014)
  9. The Archaeological Context of the 1617 Church Excavations (2020)
  10. Archaeological Dimensions of the Acadian Diaspora (2014)
  11. Archaeological Evidence of Survivance: Chinese Habitation Sites on the Malheur National Forest (2020)
  12. Archaeological Evidence of the Colonial Occupation in a House in Downtown Mexico City (2019)
  13. Archaeological Evidence of two French Colonial Buildings in St. Charles, Missouri (2014)
  14. Archaeological Examination Of An Early War Confederate Winter Encampment On The York-James Peninsula, Newport News, Virginia (2022)
  15. An Archaeological Examination of Cookware from the Storm Wreck, 8SJ5459 (2016)
  16. An Archaeological Examination of the Human Remains associated with Vasa (2018)
  17. Archaeological Excavations at Wallblake Estate, Anguilla, 2017-2019. (2022)
  18. Archaeological Excavations in Monticello's First Kitchen (2018)
  19. Archaeological excavations in the Harbour of Grønnegaard, Copenhagen: Examples of quays, careening wharf, slipway, crane, and the reuse of scuttled ship-hulls in 17th & 18th century (2014)
  20. An Archaeological Exploration of St. Joseph’s College, the First Catholic Boarding School for Boys within the Oregon Territory (2016)
  21. Archaeological Findings for the City Hall Renovations Project, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (2022)
  22. Archaeological Findings From The 2013 Survey of the Soviet Tanker Ashkhabad (2014)
  23. Archaeological Findings From The 2015 Survey of the Tanker SS Dixie Arrow (2016)
  24. Archaeological Formation of Memory amongst 17th Century Scottish Prisoners of War (2023)
  25. Archaeological Impacts on Collective Memory: Re-creating a Mayan Identity? (2018)
  26. Archaeological Investigation and Identification of USS Independence Aircraft Through Telepresence-Enabled Exploration (2020)
  27. Archaeological Investigation of a PB2Y-5R Coronado in Kwajalein Lagoon (2020)
  28. Archaeological Investigation of North-Eastern English Responses to the Great Depression (2018)
  29. Archaeological Investigation of the Brookgreen Plantation, South Carolina (2017)
  30. The Archaeological Investigation of the Storm Wreck, a Wartime Refugee Vessel Lost at St. Augustine, Florida at the End of the Revolutionary War: Overview of the 2010-2015 Excavation Seasons (2016)
  31. An Archaeological Investigation Of The Submarine Resurgam (2018)
  32. Archaeological Investigations at Alamance Battleground State Historic Site (31AM397) (2020)
  33. Archaeological investigations at Brouage (France) : the "Maison Champlain" site (16th-17th centuries) (2013)
  34. Archaeological Investigations At La Isabela, Dominican Republic (2020)
  35. Archaeological Investigations at the Historic Locations of Sulphur Springs, Oklahoma: A GIS-based Investigation of Cultural Rescources Within Chickasaw National Recreation Area (2015)
  36. Archaeological Investigations at the Montgomery Site, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. (2019)
  37. Archaeological Investigations of an Early American Farmstead: The Wiley Smith Site (31MG2098) (2020)
  38. Archaeological Investigations of Camp Frazer, Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky (2015)
  39. Archaeological Investigations of Civil War Activity in an Urban Setting: Franklin, Tennessee (2014)
  40. Archaeological Investigations of Fort Amsterdam, Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean (2019)
  41. Archaeological Investigations of pre-1745 French Domestic Properties at Rochefort Point, Fortress of Louisbourg (2014)
  42. Archaeological Investigations of the Treviño-Uribe Rancho (41ZP97), San Ygancio, Zapata County, Texas (2017)
  43. Archaeological Investigations to Locate the Site of the 1876 Centennial Japanese Bazaar (2022)
  44. The Archaeological Invisibility of the Urban Immigrant: Examples from 19th and early 20th Century Glasgow & Manchester (2013)
  45. An archaeological light age: On modernity, urbanism and the materiality of light-based technologies. (2016)
  46. Archaeological Management in Ontario: Legislation and Development Planning (2014)
  47. An Archaeological Perspective On The Transition From Enslavement To Freedom In The Colony Of Bermuda (2020)
  48. Archaeological Perspectives on American Cemeteries and Gravestones (2013)
  49. Archaeological Perspectives on American White Supremacist Appropriations of Viking Heritage (2018)
  50. Archaeological Perspectives on Atlantic World Historic Preservation (2015)
  51. The Archaeological Potential Of The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail (2016)
  52. Archaeological Practice as Science Communication (2016)
  53. Archaeological Practice, Material Objects, and Social Memory (2016)
  54. Archaeological Preservation and the Jesuit-Guarani Missions (2013)
  55. Archaeological Research at Revolutionary War Battle of Peckuwe (1780) (2021)
  56. Archaeological Research at the Cesar and Sym Peters Site, Hebron, Connecticut (2022)
  57. The Archaeological Signature of Stews: Experimental Chopping of Long Bones and Small Fragment Sizes (2013)
  58. Archaeological Significance, Professional Practice, and Public Praxis, Part 1: Archaeological Identity and the determination of archaeological site significance (2014)
  59. Archaeological Significance, Professional Practice, and Public Praxis, Part 2: Identity, Community Engagement, and the Significance of Archeological Sites (2014)
  60. Archaeological Survey of Tennessee's Rosenwald Schools (2018)
  61. Archaeological Survey of Tennessee's Rosenwald Schools (2015)
  62. An Archaeological Synthesis of Wells in Delaware: Alternative Mitigation for the Polk Tenant Site (2016)
  63. Archaeologically Assembling The Full Picture of the Political-Economy of Late 18th Century Colonial Trade Relations on the Margins of Empire from the Bisc-2 Shipwreck Site. (2013)
  64. Archaeologies of Antislavery Resistance (2013)
  65. Archaeologies of Conflicting Ideologies: Frederick Douglass as a Contemporary Post-Colonial Thinker (2014)
  66. Archaeologies of Disinvestment and Displacement: Documenting Detroit’s Foreclosure Crisis (2018)
  67. Archaeologies of Foodways through Butchery at Manzanar National Historic Site (2018)
  68. Archaeologies of Removal: The Adaeseños of late 18th century Spanish Texas (2014)
  69. Archaeologies of the After-lives of Slavery (Discussant Comments) (2017)
  70. Archaeologies of Value in the Modern World (2021)
  71. Archaeologists In Parks (2020)
  72. Archaeology Along San Pedro Creek, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (2022)
  73. Archaeology and Abelism : Using Disability Scholarship to Rethink Archaeological Fieldwork (2021)
  74. Archaeology and Architecture: How to restore an 18th century manor house at Melwood Parke (2016)
  75. Archaeology and Art History: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Medieval Ceramics from Iran (2023)
  76. Archaeology and Coastal Change (2020)
  77. Archaeology and Digital Heritage at the Chief Jacko Site: Landscapes of Maroons in Dominica (2023)
  78. Archaeology and Dissonant Memories of Japanese American Incarceration (2018)
  79. The Archaeology And Forgeries Department: A Novel Interdepartmental Approach For Obtaining Historically Accurate Reproductions At George Washington’s Boyhood Home (2020)
  80. Archaeology And Gardens At A WWII Japanese American Incarceration Camp In Gila River, Arizona (2016)
  81. Archaeology and History of Sea People in French West Indies (end 18th – 19th century) (2020)
  82. Archaeology and Informal Education Progams for Youth (2013)
  83. Archaeology and Interpretation at The Hermitage (2018)
  84. Archaeology and Mainstream Media: Slippery Slope or Revolution Worth Stoking? (2020)
  85. Archaeology and Offshore Development: Advancing our Archaeological Understanding through Collaboration with Industry (2017)
  86. Archaeology and Preservation at the Lake George Battlefield (2015)
  87. Archaeology and Public Memory at the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Site (2016)
  88. Archaeology And Resource Management In San Antonio: A City-Wide Perspective On Recent Finds (2022)
  89. The Archaeology and Settlement History of an Early Black neighbourhood in The Ward, Toronto (2020)
  90. Archaeology and the Battle of the Atlantic: Approaches, Methods and Results of Studying and Underwater Battlefield (2015)
  91. Archaeology and the Changing Landscape of Community in a Colonial Capital; The Banjul Heritage Project (2015)
  92. Archaeology and the Oil Spill:  Exploration of the Mississippi Barrier Islands as a result of the BP Oil spill (2013)
  93. Archaeology Arcade: Livestreaming, Archaeogaming, and Engaging the Public (2023)
  94. Archaeology as a Path to Reconciliation in Tulsa’s Historic Black Wall Street (2020)
  95. Archaeology at Bartram’s Garden 1975-Present. (2016)
  96. Archaeology at Iowaville, the 1765–1820 Báxoje (Ioway) Tribe Village on the Des Moines River (2013)
  97. Archaeology at Oatlands: The Past, Present and Future of Archaeology at an American Plantation (2020)
  98. Archaeology at Paoli Battlefield: Expanding the Interpretations of Conflict (2016)
  99. The Archaeology Education A Team: Public Archaeology and Public Media (2022)
  100. Archaeology for the Masses: Presenting the Storm Wreck through Public Archaeology (2016)