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. Archaeology Goes Underground: The Potential for Historical Archaeology in Wind Cave (2014)
  2. Archaeology in 140 Characters: The Efficacy of Social Media in Archaeological Heritage Management (2014)
  3. Archaeology in a Municipal Planning Context: The City of Kingston Archaeological Planning process (2005-2011) (2014)
  4. Archaeology in a Revolutionary Town: Multi-Temporal Heritage Narratives at the McGrath Farm, Concord, Massachusetts (2016)
  5. Archaeology in a Time of Climate Change, a Challenge for the This Generation and the Next: An Essay in Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (2022)
  6. Archaeology in our Backyards: A Household Chore as Antecedent to Community Awareness of Heritage at Risk. (2022)
  7. Archaeology in Real-time:  The Use of Social Media as Part of the Excavation of Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop and Public Armoury (2013)
  8. Archaeology in San Antonio: An Auspicious Paradigm for the Protection of Cultural Resources (2016)
  9. Archaeology In The (Political) Trenches: Lessons From Charm City (2016)
  10. Archaeology in the Arboretum: Exploring the Evidence of the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters Site on Stanford University’s Campus (2020)
  11. Archaeology in the Plantationocene (2023)
  12. Archaeology In The Waters Of The Falls Zone (2016)
  13. Archaeology is Appealing: Collaborative Approaches to Foster Public Engagement with the Past (2016)
  14. Archaeology Non-Profits and Community Programs: The Struggle to Keep Archaeology Important in the Eyes of the Public (2019)
  15. Archaeology Of "Copper Country's" Underrepresented Communities (2019)
  16. An Archaeology of (Un)Capital: Hobos, The Great Depression, and a Small Pennsylvania Slate Quarrying Town Called Delta (2018)
  17. Archaeology of 17th Century Iberian Shipwrecks: Assessment and Comparison of Excavated,Recorded and Published Hull Remains (2019)
  18. Archaeology of a 19th Century Miner’s Boarding House Yard (2014)
  19. The Archaeology of a Gullah Geechee Fishing Village (2022)
  20. The Archaeology of a Late 17th to early 18th Century Plantation Servant’s Quarter in Burlington County, New Jersey. (2020)
  21. Archaeology of a nautical battle: the investigation of the Italian-French brig Mercurio (2013)
  22. The archaeology of a Seattle city block from 1880s squatters, Great Northern Railroad workers, and the establishment of Pike Place Market. (2017)
  23. An Archaeology of Aesthetics: the Socio-Economic and Ideological Elements of Coffin Plate Selection at the Spring Street Presbyterian Church (2013)
  24. An Archaeology of Agency: The James and Sophia Clemens Farm (2023)
  25. The Archaeology of an Early Resource-Extraction Industry: The Cod Fishery, 1600-1713 (2016)
  26. The Archaeology of Art in Berlin (2015)
  27. The Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862, Woodlake Battlefield Minnesota (2018)
  28. An Archaeology of Belonging: A Theory and its Practice in a Colonial Situation (2013)
  29. The Archaeology of Borderlands: North Western Anatolia in the Early Ottoman Period (2015)
  30. Archaeology of Captive African Life on the Brook Green Rice Plantation: what we know, and where we will go. (2022)
  31. An Archaeology of Care in the Bakken Oil Patch (North Dakota, USA) (2017)
  32. The Archaeology of Cassipora Creek: Exploratory Investigations of a 17th-Century Jewish Settlement in Suriname (2019)
  33. The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s Campus (2021)
  34. Archaeology of Chinese Woodchoppers and the Forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin: Exploring the Intersections of Extractive Industries, Transportation, and Labor (2015)
  35. The Archaeology of Citizenship (2013)
  36. The Archaeology of Class, Status and Authority Within Mid-19th Century U. S. Army Commissioned Officers: Examples from Fort Yamhill and Fort Hoskins, Oregon 1856-1866 (2015)
  37. The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America: A Case Study from 18th-century Spanish Texas (2013)
  38. Archaeology of Colonialism and the lineages of Tupiniquim women in São Vicente & Rio de Janeiro during the 16-17th century: by an interdisciplinary approach (2023)
  39. Archaeology of Colonialism: the 17th Century Spanish Colony of Hoping Dao, Taiwan   (2013)
  40. An Archaeology of Community Investment: The Old Edgebrook Schoolhouse in Chicago, Illinois (2014)
  41. The Archaeology of Conquest: Employing a Trans-conquest Approach to Interpreting Processes of Resistance and Incorporation (2014)
  42. An archaeology of counter-insurgency: Spanish military trochas and reconcentration camps in Cuba (1895-1898). (2013)
  43. The Archaeology of Cowboy Island: The Santa Rosa Historic Archaeology Project (SRHAP) (2016)
  44. The archaeology of cultural interactions in French Guiana (2013)
  45. Archaeology of Domestic Spaces: Asymmetric Dependencies and Tactics of Resistance in San Basilio de Palenque. Colombia. 19th-20th Centuries. (2023)
  46. The Archaeology of Enslaved Labor: Identifying Work and Domestic Spaces in the South Yard (2016)
  47. Archaeology of Environmental Inequality (2016)
  48. Archaeology of Excursion Steamboats: Recent Work on Late 19th Century Shipwrecks of the Midwest (2018)
  49. An Archaeology of Fear and Loathing: Building, Remembering and Commemorating the Civilian and Military Fortifications of the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota. (2020)
  50. The Archaeology of Forts and Battlefields (2013)
  51. The Archaeology of Gender in Historic America (2013)
  52. The Archaeology of Gendered Resistance at the Industrial Mine in Superior, CO (2017)
  53. The Archaeology of God’s Wrath – A Major Earthquake on the East Coast in 1663 (2015)
  54. An Archaeology of Homeplace at the Parting Ways, an African-American Settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts (2016)
  55. An Archaeology of Inventories: An 18th Century Jesuit Winery and Distillery in Nasca, Peru (2018)
  56. The Archaeology of Irish Railroad Laborers in Mid-Nineteenth Century Virginia: Findings from the First Field Season (2013)
  57. An Archaeology Of Jazz: Urban And Racial Identity At The Blue Bird Inn, Detroit (2016)
  58. An Archaeology of Landscape on the Petit Nord (2014)
  59. The Archaeology of Maritime Alexandria (2020)
  60. Archaeology of Mercantilism: An Analysis of Vessels and Passengers in Puerto Rico, 1510-1545 (2016)
  61. Archaeology of Migrations: Integrated Maritime and Land Archaeology to Assess Disease Control in the Indian Ocean (2023)
  62. Archaeology of Modern Pollution (2023)
  63. An Archaeology Of Modernization: The Cultural Transformation In Galicia (NW Spain) Through Architecture And Domestic Material Culture. (2023)
  64. Archaeology of Mothering in 19th Century Colonial Yucatán (2020)
  65. Archaeology of Oostenburg. The Amsterdam harbour extension of 1660 and the VOC ship yard (2014)
  66. The Archaeology of Pat’s Island, Ocala National Forest, Florida (2022)
  67. The Archaeology of Pet Taxidermy (2020)
  68. Archaeology of Pierre Metoyer’s 18th-Century French Colonial Plantation Site, Natchitoches, Louisiana (2016)
  69. The Archaeology of Pineapples: An excavation of a Vinery-Pinery in Scotland (2013)
  70. The Archaeology of Pivotal Places: The Structuring of Habitual Landscape and the Bush Hill Plantation. (2020)
  71. Archaeology of Plastics: On Overcoming, Oceans, and Environmentalism (2020)
  72. The Archaeology of Playing Indian: Boy Scout Camps as Colonial Imaginaries (2016)
  73. The Archaeology of Racial Hatred: Springfield, Illinois (2020)
  74. An Archaeology of Redress: Freedom as Impossible Praxis (2023)
  75. The Archaeology of Refugee Crises in Greece: Diachronic Cultural Landscapes (2017)
  76. The Archaeology of Religion in America (2013)
  77. Archaeology of repression and resistance during Francoist dictatorship (2017)
  78. The Archaeology of Rural Proletarianization in Early Modern Iceland (2016)
  79. Archaeology of Shifting Landscapes on the Historic San Francisco Waterfront (2015)
  80. The archaeology of ship communication: Preliminary study of an early 17th-century Dutch poste restante in the Indian Ocean (2013)
  81. The archaeology of siege warfare at the gateways of Paris : training Louis XIV’s troops at the Saint-Sebastien Fort (2014)
  82. The archaeology of Slavery in Southern Brazil in Global Perspective (2013)
  83. An Archaeology of Survivance: Investigating Settler Colonial Narratives with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (2018)
  84. Archaeology of the 1859 Dorchester Industrial School for Girls: an Introduction (2018)
  85. Archaeology of the American Southwest: Comparing the Mythology of the Frontier with Daily Life in Fort Davis, Texas (2018)
  86. Archaeology of the Atlantic Early Modern Seaports. An Approach Via CONCHA Project. (2023)
  87. Archaeology of the Czechoslovak Uranium Gulag (2016)
  88. The archaeology of the early modern period and the Eighty Years’ War in the Zwin-Scheldt estuary (Belgium, the Netherlands) (2014)
  89. Archaeology Of The I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Improvement Project: The Big Picture (2022)
  90. The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade (2013)
  91. The Archaeology of the People’s Century? (2013)
  92. Archaeology Of The William Berkley Sutler Store, Camp Nelson Civil War Depot, Jessamine County, Kentucky (2015)
  93. The Archaeology of Tourism at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2020)
  94. The Archaeology of Urban Blight (2016)
  95. Archaeology of Urban Slavery In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023)
  96. An Archaeology of Violent American Landscapes in Rosewood and Beyond (2021)
  97. The Archaeology of Working Class Identity at the Industrial Coal Mining Camp in Superior, Colorado (2017)
  98. The Archaeology of Yiddish Folklore: Towards an Understanding of Jewish Folk Practice in the 19th Century (2015)
  99. Archaeology on Facebook: Using the Social Media Platform to Teach Archaeology from Home (2021)
  100. Archaeology on Rogers Island in the Hudson River (2018)