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. Port de Pomègues 4, a lead sheathed ibero-atlantic vessel (Marseilles, France) (2023)
  2. Port of Appeal: Examining the Socio-Materiality of Sino-Foreign Maritime Cultural Exchange at Liu Family Harbour, Taicang (2023)
  3. Port of Badagary, a Point of No Return: Investigation of Maritime Slave Trade in Nigeria (2016)
  4. Port Richmond: Interpreting A Neighborhood (2022)
  5. Portrait of a Port: Industry and Ideology in El Salvador (1805-1900) (2018)
  6. Portrait of the Bahamas: Shipwrecks and its belongings. (2018)
  7. Ports and port systems in the Modern and Contemporary periods within a comparative study of the Portuguese and British maritime empires. (2013)
  8. Ports and Settlements in the Gulf of Oristano. A Coastal and Underwater Archaeological Approach (2013)
  9. Ports of North America’s Inland Seas (2023)
  10. Portsmouth Island Life-Saving Station, Innovative Technology Reconstructing The Past (2020)
  11. A Portuguese Ceramic Style in a Global Trade (16th-18th centuries) (2021)
  12. Portuguese ceramics and the political message of an empire (2014)
  13. Portuguese Ceramics from Newfoundland, Canada. (2013)
  14. Portuguese ceramics in Plymouth (UK) (2013)
  15. Portuguese East Indiamen Shipwrecks Of 1503. Al-Hallaniya Island, Oman. The Land Archaeology Survey And Excavations (2018)
  16. Portuguese Faience and its worldwide distribution (2013)
  17. Portuguese Faience in Brazil’s 17th century Capital (2013)
  18. Portuguese finds in Velha Goa (2013)
  19. Portuguese fine red coarsewares (2013)
  20. Portuguese in California (2023)
  21. Portuguese Introduced Firearms Amongst The Societies Of The Lower Zambezi From The Early Seventeenth To Late Nineteenth Centuries (2023)
  22. Portuguese Naus on Namban Screens: A Study of the First European Ships on Paintings from the Late 16th to Early 17th Centuries in Japan (2014)
  23. Portuguese olive jars. Production and distribution (2018)
  24. Portuguese settlement in Mumbai region, India: territorial occupation throughout structural remains (16th-18th centuries) (2013)
  25. Portuguese Wine, an Old Spanish Town, and a New British Colony: Cosmopolitanism and Consumption in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)
  26. Post Emancipation Material Culture and Housing on St. Kitts, West Indies (2018)
  27. Post medieval ceramic toys from Gdansk excavation (2014)
  28. Post-1800 Mining Camps, Redux: A Reappraisal at Age 50 (2016)
  29. Post-Construction Chinese Worker Housing on the Central Pacific Railroad: 1870-1900 (2017)
  30. Post-Emancipation African American Life in the Upper South and South Louisiana: insights from a comparison of material culture from the Hermitage, Tennessee, and Alma and Riverlake Plantations, Louisiana (2018)
  31. Post-Industrial Placemaking: The Keweenaw Time Traveler and Community-Engaged Historical GIS (2018)
  32. The Post-medieval Archaeology of Rural Bohemia (2013)
  33. Post-Medieval earthenware production centres in western Brittany (2014)
  34. Post/Mining Heritage Landscapes and the Energy Transition: Digital Tech for Heritage-led, Community-driven Design Thinking. (2020)
  35. Postcolonial New Materialist Archaeologies: (Questionable?) Questions that Count in Mesoamerican Historical Archaeology (2014)
  36. Postindustrial Archaeology in the Workshop of the World: Philadelphia Industrial Sites, 1990-Present (2018)
  37. Postindustrial Places and "Big Data": Exploiting the Potential of Historical Spatial Data Infrastructures for Archaeology (2018)
  38. Potato Hill, Montserrat: The Role of Multi-Method Survey in Caribbean Historical Archaeology (2014)
  39. Poteaux-en-Terre, Faience, Ash Pits and Native American Ceramics: An Update on MoDOT’s Archaeology Under the Bridge (2018)
  40. Potential Diver Impacts on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Asia-Pacific (2013)
  41. Potential for Homesteading at the Orchard Combat Training Center (2018)
  42. The Potential for the Archeology of the Civilian Conservation Corps in National Parks (2015)
  43. The Potential of Reutilized Ship Timbers for Shipbuilding Studies: the Case of Boqueirão do Duro (Lisbon, Portugal) (2023)
  44. Poteries du quotidien à Lyon (France) aux 16e-18e siècles : l’apport des fouilles archéologiques (2014)
  45. Potiers et poteries de Martincamp (France) (2014)
  46. Potomac Portage: Great Falls National Park and the Potomac Divide (2016)
  47. Pots and Creole Politics: Preliminary Analysis of an Urban, Late-Nineteenth Century Kiln Site in New Orleans (2018)
  48. Pots, Pipes & Plantation: Material Culture & Cultural Identity in Early Modern Ireland (2016)
  49. Potter Politicians (2018)
  50. Potteries: Ceramics and the 50th Anniversary of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (2016)
  51. The potters of Charlestown (Boston), MA, their wares, and their archaeological contributions (2016)
  52. Pottery and Identity: Elites in Puerto Rico (2013)
  53. Pottery and Potters in Quebec City in the 17th Century: An Archaeometric Study of Local Ceramic Production (2016)
  54. Pottery Consumption in the 17th & 18th Centuries in Iceland (2023)
  55. Pottery in the colonies: the silent marker revisited (2013)
  56. Pottery on board in the end of 18th century. (2013)
  57. Poule Au Pot: Animal Remains from French Colonial Sites in the Old Village of St. Louis (2018)
  58. Poultry in Motion: Chickens and Other Domestic Birds in Post-Medieval Cities (2013)
  59. The Pound Net Stake Fishery of the Upper Great Lakes of Michigan: An Initial Exploration (2023)
  60. Power and the Production of an American Landscape (2017)
  61. Power in Numbers: Reconstructing Provenience Through an Investigation of 283,000 Beads (2020)
  62. Power in Numbers: the Anthropological Implications of Horse Shoe Nails on Blacksmith Sites (2014)
  63. The Power Of Government Interagency And External Partnerships (2023)
  64. The Power of Performance: Activism, Public Archaeology, and Heritage Landscapes at the Portland Wharf (2016)
  65. The Power of Public Archeology and Prehistoric Technology (2016)
  66. Power, Place, and Movement: Local Networks and the Movement of Enslaved Laborers between Coffee and Sugar Estates in Dominica (2020)
  67. Powering a Generation: Analyzing Early 20th Century Coal Use at Clemson Agricultural College (2019)
  68. Powering Scholars: Continued Research into a Late 19th Century Coal Midden at Clemson Agricultural College (2020)
  69. Practical and Preferable: An Analysis of Portuguese Coarseware on Virginia’s Northern Neck (2023)
  70. Practical Applications of Underwater Laser Scanning in Maritime Archaeology Compared to Micro-bathymetry Sonar and Photogrammetry (2017)
  71. The Practice of Seasonal Mining: Chinese Gold Miners at Island Mountain, Nevada (2020)
  72. Practicing Community Archaeology in Shaker Heights, OH (2018)
  73. Praxis Communities and Uneven Development: Some Ideas on Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Hobos (2020)
  74. Prayer for Relief: Archeological Excavations within a Portion of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery (Site 51NE049), Washington, D.C. (2016)
  75. Praying to Heaven. Botijuelas reused as roof top in vernacular architectures of Asturias and Galicia (Northwest Iberian) (2023)
  76. Pre- and Post-Katrina Excavations of Charity Hospital Cemeteries: A Window into the Structural Violence of Mid-19th to Early 20th Century New Orleans (2018)
  77. Precontact and Historic Archaeology for the Seabed Remediation of Esquimalt Harbour, Esquimalt, BC. (2016)
  78. Precontact Archaeology on the Outer Continental Shelf: Site Identification Practices and the Regulatory Environment (2014)
  79. Prediction of Human Remains Distribution within WWII Bombardment Aircraft Crash Sites (2017)
  80. The preferences for British earthenwares among 18th- and 19th-century Limeños: A perspective from the historical archaeology of the Casa Bodega y Quadra, Lima, Peru. (2017)
  81. Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater: Lessons from Hunting Caribou Hunters beneath Lake Huron (2015)
  82. Prehistoric Production or Enslaved Curation?: An Evaluation of the Temporal and Spatial Distributions of the Lithic Assemblage at The Hermitage. (2018)
  83. Preliminary Analysis of Faunal Remains from the 17th-Century John Hollister Site, Glastonbury, Connecticut (2018)
  84. A Preliminary Analysis of Lead Sheathing and Waterproofing Evidence from Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) (2018)
  85. A Preliminary Autopsy on Coffins Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts (2017)
  86. Preliminary Examinations of the Archaeology of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022)
  87. Preliminary findings of a previously unknown historic site on St. Catherines Island, GA (2020)
  88. Preliminary Investigation of Pensacola’s Colonial Jail (2014)
  89. A Preliminary Investigation Of Poydras College (2015)
  90. Preliminary Micro Computed Tomodensitometry Of 16th and 17th Century Frit-core Glass Beads In North America (2023)
  91. Preliminary Observations on the Nathaniel Clark Earthenware Pottery at Marietta, Ohio. (2016)
  92. Preliminary Phytolith Analysis at the John Hollister Site (2018)
  93. Preliminary Report of a Maritime Archaeological Survey at Sandy Point, St. Kitts, British West Indies (2014)
  94. Preliminary Report on the Archaeobotany of the John Hollister Site (2018)
  95. Preliminary Results of Archaeological Data Collected at Peachtree Plantation, St. James Parish, South Carolina (2014)
  96. Preliminary Results of Data Recovery Investigations At The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Facility, City Of St. Louis, Missouri (2018)
  97. Preliminary Results Of The Data Recovery Project of the CSS Georgia (2016)
  98. Preliminary Results of the Madam Haycraft Site (23SL2334), City of St. Louis, Missouri (2016)
  99. Preliminary Results on the Archaeology of Slave Trade at Inhaca Island (2023)
  100. Preliminary Results Project Naval Shipwrecks in West Indies during the American Revolutionary Period 1774-1783 (2022)