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. Pew Pew! Small Arms from the Storm Wreck, a Loyalist Evacuation Ship from the End of the American Revolutionary War. (2016)
  2. The Pewter Assemblage from the Site of CSS Georgia (2020)
  3. PGIS and Interwar Totalitarian Planning (2018)
  4. Phase III Investigations Of The Noxon Tenancy, 7NC-F-133, New Castle County, Delaware: An Examination Of The Faunal Material (2015)
  5. A Philadelphia Patchwork: Considering Small-Scale Archaeology in the City of Brotherly Love (2016)
  6. Phillips House: A Twentieth-Century Property with a Buried Past (2014)
  7. The Phoenix Project: Applications of Gamification for Online Civic Engagement (2015)
  8. Phoenix Rising: Developing a Municipal Archaeology Program in Arizona, USA (2014)
  9. Phosphate, Potassium, Pisces and Poop: Surveying the Pacific Guano Company Anchorage of Woods Hole, MA, USA (2018)
  10. Photogrammetric Memory: Illustrating the Public Interpretation of Pensacola's Brass Wreck (2020)
  11. Photogrammetric Recording of 19th-Century Lake Champlain Steamboats: Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard 2015. (2016)
  12. Photogrammetric Survey of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Shipwreck Near Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (2018)
  13. Photogrammetric Texture Mapping: A methodology of applying photorealistic textures on scanned dense points cloud data (2017)
  14. Photogrammetry and Conservation: Modelling Damage and Reconstruction of a Revolutionary War Cannon (2019)
  15. Photogrammetry and the Avocational Diver, a Collaborative Approach (2020)
  16. A Photogrammetry Of The Past: A Time To Observe And A Time To Record. The Example Of The Madrague De Giens (1st BC) (2023)
  17. Photography, Performance, and Identity: Social Constructions of a Local Legend (2020)
  18. Photorealism at an Archaeological Site near Mission San Luis Obispo, California (2017)
  19. Picking Up Olive The Pieces: An Analysis On 16th Century Olive Jar From The Tristán De Luna Site (2020)
  20. Picking Up the Baton: A Nonprofit Established to Continue Work Towards a Florida Panhandle National Heritage Area (2023)
  21. Picking Up the Pieces: An Analysis of the Bottles from the Former Blockley Almshouse Cemetery Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2022)
  22. Picking up the Pieces: Interpretation and reconstruction of USS Westfield from fragmentary Archaeological evidence (2015)
  23. Picking up the Pieces: Interpretation and Reconstruction of USS Westfield from Fragmentary Archaeological Evidence (2014)
  24. Pictorial Examples Of Supposed Native Architecture In lreland: An Alternative View (2020)
  25. Picturing a Storied Past: On Narrative and Photography at a Castroville, TX Archaeological Site (2017)
  26. Picturing Consumption: An Examination of Drinking Establishments Through Images and Material Culture from Late 17th Century London (2013)
  27. A Piece of Salted Snakehead and Its Implications for the Nineteenth-Century Chinese Diaspora Fish Trade (2019)
  28. Piecing together a puzzle - HMB Endeavour and Photogrammetric 3D Reconstruction (2020)
  29. Piecing Together History: Conservation of a Wool Coat from USS Monitor (2018)
  30. The Pied Piper in Boston: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Rats at the Unity Court Tenements (2019)
  31. A  Piedmont Plantation (2013)
  32. The Pig Ankle Tonk Retrospective (2018)
  33. Pilgrim’s Progress: Neighborhood redevelopment and the historical landscape of "America’s Hometown" (2017)
  34. Pills and Potions at the Niagara Apothecary, Canada (2018)
  35. The Pioneer Shell Company: Oyster Shell Harvesting Of The San Francisco Bay (2023)
  36. "A Pipe for for a king": the sun burst stone pipe of Pickawillany, Piqua, Ohio (2015)
  37. Pirate Plunder: The Potential for Identifying the Material Culture of Piracy in the Historical Record (2018)
  38. Pirate Shipwrecks of Port Royal (2013)
  39. Pirates and Prostitutes - Seeking the invisible: Identifying the cultural footprint for illicit activity in early 17th-century Ireland (2013)
  40. Pirates and Slave Ships: The Historical Context of Two Wrecks in Cahuita, Costa Rica (2016)
  41. Pirates As Men Of Measure: Examining Tools And Equipment From The QAR Shipwreck (2018)
  42. Pirates of the Pacific: A view from Oaxaca, Mexico (2018)
  43. The Pirates of the Pamlico: A Maritime Cultural Landsca­­pe Investigation of the Pirates of Colonial North Carolina and their Place in the State’s Cultural Memory (2017)
  44. Pirates, Pepper and Prostitutes – illicit trade in goods and pleasure in 17th-century West Cork. (2016)
  45. The Pistol in the Privy: Myths and Contexts of Southern Italian Violence in the Anthracite Coalfields of Northeast Pennsylvania (2016)
  46. Pit Cellars and Ethnic Identity in Tennessee. (2023)
  47. Pit Feature Analysis At The Eighteenth-Century Goe Plantation, Prince George’s County, Maryland (2022)
  48. The Pitch Tar Mill – the material memory of specialized production site in the town of Oulu, Northern Finland (2015)
  49. The Pitch Tar Mills in the Gulf of Bothnia’s Early Modern Coastal Towns, Northern Finland (2016)
  50. Pitit’Latè: Anticolonial Archaeology of Afroguianese Lands, Things, and Memories (2023)
  51. A Place for Convicts: The Fremantle Lunatic Asylum (2014)
  52. Place Of Refuge: "The Fighting Missionary", Alexander Merensky, And The Forts Of Botshabelo Mission Station, South Africa. (2018)
  53. The "Place Where No One Ever Goes": The Landscape and Archaeology of the Miller Grove Community (2019)
  54. Places for Others: Archaeological Perspectives on the Carceral Society (2013)
  55. Placing it on the Table...or Under It: Negotiations in the Saloons of Highland City, Montana and the Tavern of Smuttynose Island, Maine (2017)
  56. Placing The Past: Using GIS To Reconstruct The Maritime Landscape Of The Alexandria, Virginia Waterfront (2020)
  57. Planes, Chains and Snowmobiles: A Decade of Parks Canada Underwater Archaeology in the Canadian Arctic (2020)
  58. Planning Voyages: Cargo, Culture, and Concepts. (2023)
  59. Plans without Plants? – The Early Modern Status Garden in the North (2018)
  60. Plant and Animal Consumption in the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California (2015)
  61. Plantation Archaeology in French Guiana: Results Investigations at Habitation Loyola (2016)
  62. The Plantation Boat Accommodation: The Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Maritime Icon of the American Southeast (2018)
  63. Plantation Laborer Housing at the Bethlehem Sugar Factory, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2023)
  64. Plantation Management and the Enslaved Community on the Estate of James Madison, Sr (2014)
  65. Plantation Site Context—taking a scalar approach to examining plantation landscapes (2018)
  66. Plants, Animals, and Food Choice Within the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California (2015)
  67. Plants, People, And Pottery: Looking At The Personal Agriculture Of The Enslaved In South Carolina. (2016)
  68. Plastic Adrift: Archaeology, Relations And Multiple Contexts (2022)
  69. Playgrounds as Domestic Reform (2013)
  70. Playing with Fire: Children’s Toys at Fort York’s Ordinance and Supply Yard (2014)
  71. Playing with Gender: Considerations of Intersecting Identities Expressed through Childhood Materials at Fort Davis, Texas (2016)
  72. Pleasure or All Customers?: Disrupting Heteronormative Perceptions of Nineteenth-century Prostitution (2020)
  73. Plundering the Spanish Main: Henry Morgan’s Raid on Panama (2016)
  74. Pluralism and Labor in Overseas Chinese Railroad Camps (2014)
  75. Plymouth Colony Archaeological Survey: Results of 2015 Excavations on Burial Hil (2016)
  76. Plymouth Memory Capsule: A 19th-Century Tale of Woe? (2017)
  77. Plymouth, Devon in 1620 (2020)
  78. Poaching Pots and Making Places: Slavery and Ceramic Consumption in the Shenandoah Valley (2018)
  79. Pockoy Island, South Carolina: A Case Study for Collaborative Shoreline Change Research to Heritage at Risk, Coastal Geology, and Community Science Monitoring (2023)
  80. Poetry And Archaeology: Public Art For An Expanded Audience (2021)
  81. A Political Economy of Adornment: Indigenous Mass Consumption and Euro-American Shell Bead Factories in 19th Century New Jersey (2020)
  82. Political Economy, Praxis, and Aesthetics: The Institutions of Slavery and Hacienda at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca, Peru (2016)
  83. The Political Waves of Displacement: Heritage and Neoliberal Urban Renewal (2019)
  84. The Politics and Ideology of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in 19th Century America (2014)
  85. The politics of landscape depiction in the Finnish WWII army photographs (2018)
  86. The Politics of Landscape Representation and Kamakhya (2018)
  87. The Politics of Pots: Becoming New Communities in the Historic Northern Rio Grande (2018)
  88. The Politics of Practice Theory: Feminist Archaeology Meets Marx and Bourdieu (2019)
  89. The Politics of War Ruins: Architecture and Memory of French Villages Destroyed by War (2023)
  90. Politics, Professionalism, and the Public in Archaeology: The Endeavour Bark Project (2020)
  91. Politics, The Public, And Archaeology In Texas (2017)
  92. The Polk Brothers Livestock Stockyards of Fort Worth (2017)
  93. Pollen Analysis as a Proxy for Land Use Practices in Massachusetts, 1500-1700 CE (2020)
  94. The Polly Bemis Ranch Archaeological Project: Revisiting Idaho’s Most Famous Chinese American Pioneer (2022)
  95. Poor and Poorly? The archaeology of inequality in a Nordic welfare state (2023)
  96. "Poor White" Economic (In)Activity and the Politics of Work in Barbados (2015)
  97. Popular Plates, Personal Traits: The Biry House and a Ceramic Analysis from Castroville, Texas (2016)
  98. Porcellian Porcelain and White Male Fragility: The Journey of a Privileged Plate (2020)
  99. The Port and the Forts: A Multiscalar Study of the Defensive Landscapes on the Lower Cape Fear River in the Nineteenth Century (2014)
  100. Port Archaeology - Medieval and Post-Medieval Harbours in the Loire and Seine Estuaries, France. Sites condemned by canal works but still accessible (2014)