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. Preliminary Results:Development of a Predictive Model to Locate Potential Submerged Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park (2015)
  2. A Prelude of the Mixed Construction: Shipbuilding Analysis of a mid-19th Century Merchant Ship found in Chinchorro Bank, Mexico (2020)
  3. Prelude to Removal: Tallisi Phase Transformations in Muscogee Creek Daily Life (2013)
  4. Preparing Archaeological Data for the Cloud: Digital Collaboration within the DAACS Research Consortium (2015)
  5. Preparing children’s burials in Post-Medieval Finland: Emotions awaken by sensory experiences (2018)
  6. Preparing for the Future or Investing in the Present? Assemblages from an Overseer’s Site and an Enslaved Laborers’ Quarter (2017)
  7. Preparing for the Real World: How Fieldschools Can Teach Consultation with Interested Parties (2016)
  8. Preparing for the Unpredictable: When Research Questions and the Unknown Collide (2014)
  9. Preparing Now For Those Who Are Coming (2018)
  10. Presence of Pathological Tuberculosis in Relation to Perimortem Institutionalization at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2018)
  11. Present in the Past: Environmental Archaeology and Public Policy (2015)
  12. "Presenting Archaeological Conservation to the public at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation." (2013)
  13. Presenting Data to the Public: Approaches for Contextualizing Archaeological Information for a Non-Specialist Audience (2016)
  14. Preservation of Underwater archaeological sites on Mozambique Island (2023)
  15. Preserved meat supplies or slaughterhouse waste disposal? Zooarchaeology of the Valparaiso Fiscal Mole, Chile (2018)
  16. Preserving Heritage: The Challenge of Race and Class at the Pyrrhus Concer Homelot (2017)
  17. Preserving Human Remains in the Context of Excavation and Forensic study of the H. L. Hunley (2020)
  18. Preserving the Past, Looking to the Future: Public Archaeology at Fort St. Joseph (2020)
  19. Preserving the Past: Managing Prehistoric and Historic Canoes (2015)
  20. Preserving the Peripheries and Excavating at the Edges: An Examination of the Drinking Spaces at Two Protected Frontier Sites (2016)
  21. Preserving U.S. Navy submerged cultural resources: Implementing regulations for the Sunken Military Craft Act (2014)
  22. A President's Neighbors: Geophysical Survey and Excavation of the Forney House Lot at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (2021)
  23. The Presidio de San Carlos and Lafora’s 1771 Model: A Case Study in Combining Historical Documents, Archaeological Data, and Digital 3D Mapping (2023)
  24. Presidios of Spanish West Florida (1698-1763) (2022)
  25. Preventive excavation in l’Autre Bord, a district of the city of Le Moule (Guadeloupe) destroyed by the 1738 hurricane. (2013)
  26. The Price of Death: Materiality and Economy of 19th and 20th Century Funeral Wakes on the Periphery of Western Ireland. (2016)
  27. Prioritizing the Concretions from Queen Anne’s Revenge for Conservation: A Case Study in Managing a Large Collection (2016)
  28. Prisons in the Galápagos? Digital Archaeology of the Penal Colony of Isabela (1946-1959) (2023)
  29. Pristine Wilderness or Industrial Heritage? Creating a Critical Public Archaeology at Frost Town, New York (2023)
  30. The Private Side of Victorian Mourning Practices in 19th-century New England: The Cole’s Hill Memorial Cache (2018)
  31. The Privy of ‘ Our Lord in the Attic’, The Archaeology of an 18th-century Artifact Assemblage in Amsterdam (2016)
  32. Privy to the Details: Reanalysis of a Curated Cultural Resource Mitigation Assemblage (2022)
  33. Privy to the Past: Refuse Disposal on Alexandria’s 18th Century Waterfront (2017)
  34. Privy to Their Secrets: Archaeological and Historical Context of 19th Century Abortion in America (2014)
  35. Proactive Approaches to Heritage at Risk in Florida (2020)
  36. Problematic of Archaeology and Identity in a Multi-ethnic society like Mauritius (2014)
  37. Problematic of Archaeology and Identity in a Multi-ethnic society like Mauritius (2014)
  38. Problematizing The Normalized, Unsettling The Institutionalized: Thinking About The Reciprocity of Archaeology and History in Bengal (2021)
  39. Production and Consumption in the Old West: Examining Cottage Industry and Diet at the Nate Harrison Site (2018)
  40. Production of urban space and state formation in Oulu, Northern Finland, during the late medieval and early modern period (2014)
  41. Productive Partnerships: How Municipal Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Programs and Student Research Can Support Each Other (2016)
  42. Profit and Loss: Forced Labor at the Northampton Iron Furnace (2023)
  43. Programme to Practice: Public Archaeology Is Feminist Archaeology (2018)
  44. Progress in Preservation: Products in Motion at Apex, Arizona (2023)
  45. Project 400: Plymouth Colony Archaeological Survey (2014)
  46. Project Archaeology in Florida: Teaching and Understanding Slavery at Kingsley Plantation (2016)
  47. Project Dress: An Overview of Working with the Textile Finds from the Vasa Collection (2020)
  48. Project SAMPHIRE: Community Maritime Archaeology in Scotland. (2015)
  49. Project SIREN: Machine learning and the ancient naval battle site at the Egadi Islands, Sicily (2023)
  50. Promised Land or Purgatory? The Archaeology of Florida’s Rural African American Towns (2020)
  51. Promises and Problems with Electronic Archeological Data and Citizen Science (2020)
  52. Promoting Cultural Heritage through Contemporary Art: A Model from a San Antonio Based Artist Team (2018)
  53. Pronghorn and Pine Nuts in the Privy: Foodways of St. Michael’s Mission on the Navajo Nation (2020)
  54. A Proof-of-Concept Study: Can Fishermen Interviews Locate Historic Shipwrecks? Methodology and Preliminary Results (2015)
  55. Propaganda and Power: Men, Women, Social Status, and Politics in Rural Connecticut during the Late Colonial and Early Republican Periods (2014)
  56. Propelling Change: A Statistical Analysis of the Evolution of Great Lakes Passenger Freight Propeller Vessels (2018)
  57. "A Proper and Honorable Place of Retreat for the Sick Poor": Bioarchaeology of Philadelphia’s Blockley Almshouse Cemetery (2017)
  58. A Propitious Influence: Mary Beaudry’s Contributions to Historical and Contemporary Archaeology in the Caribbean (2022)
  59. A Proposal for Investigating Identity, Class, and Labor in Washington State Worker Settlements (2015)
  60. A Proposed Methodology for Assisting with Decisionmaking in Shipwreck Management (2020)
  61. A Proposed Methodology for Elemental Analysis using portable X-Ray Fluorescence on Lead (Pb) Projectiles (2018)
  62. A Proposed Methodology Using Buttons and Other Clothing Fasteners to Identify 19th and Early 20th Century Clothing Assemblages (2017)
  63. Prospects for understanding identity formation in culture contact situations in the Greater Los Angeles area (2014)
  64. Prosthetic Memories, Finnish WWII Army Photographs and Online Commemoration (2019)
  65. Protecting Historic Wrecks in the U.K: the early years (2013)
  66. Protecting the Past From the Future: The Effects of Climate Change on Archaeological Sites in Louisiana's Coastal Zone (2018)
  67. Protection of Maritime Archaeological Resources in Indonesia’s coastal areas: A review of Preliminary Studies (2014)
  68. Proto-World Systems, Long Term Sustainability, and Early Resource Colonies: Examples from the North Atlantic (2014)
  69. The provenance of Nueva Cadiz beads: a chemical approach (2023)
  70. Provenience Versus Richness in Collection Analysis, An Example from Historic Hanna’s Town (2020)
  71. Providing Outreach that Empowers Teachers and Students to Create Integrated STEM Learning (2015)
  72. A Provisional Cultural Resource Survey off Northern Alaska (2013)
  73. Provisioning a 19th Century Maya Refugee Village; Consumer Culture at Tikal, Guatemala. (2018)
  74. Provisioning The City: Plantation and Market in the Antebellum Lowcountry (2016)
  75. Provisioning the Coast: Salt, grain and Atlantic Commerce on the Gambia River (2023)
  76. Provisions, Possessions, and Positionality: Faunal Analysis of the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls (2018)
  77. Public Archaeology and What the Palmer Middens Tell Us About Past and Present Colorado Springs (2020)
  78. Public Archaeology Evaluation Implementation (2018)
  79. Public Archaeology in a Mobile, Digital World (2013)
  80. Public Archaeology, Pedagogy, and Pragmatism: The Flint Archaeology and Spatial History (FLASH) Project (2021)
  81. Public Engagement at the Conservation Research Laboratory (2019)
  82. Public Engagement in the Time of Corona: Adapting Personal Interpretive Programming to the Digital World (2021)
  83. Public Engagement Is Not Enough – Historical Archaeology’s Future Is in Collaboration (2016)
  84. Public Engagement, Archaeology Museology, and Sustainable Heritage Management in the Twenty-First Century Museum Experiences: A Case Study from the Harrison Site (2020)
  85. Public Face and Private Life: Identity Through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House on Nantucket (2018)
  86. A Public Good Conservation Approach For Underwater Cultural Heritage Management Through Citizen Science (2022)
  87. Public History at Appomattox: A Broadened Perspective (2018)
  88. The Public History of Xenophobic Communism: Enver H. Hoxha’s Bunker Exhibition in Tirana, Albania (2017)
  89. Public Interpretation of Faneuil Hall/Town Dock Artifacts: Exploring Boston’s Role in Slavery (2020)
  90. Public Memory and Dark Heritage at Santa Claus Village (2016)
  91. Public Memory, Commemoration, and Place: An Analysis of Confederate Monuments at the Gettysburg Battlefield (2020)
  92. Public Monitoring of Maritime Cultural Resources Along Coastal Regions (2018)
  93. Public Nautical Archaeology of the Phoenix (II) and City Place Schooner Projects (2019)
  94. Public Outreach and the QAR Lab: Engaging Present and Future Generations in Cultural Heritage (2018)
  95. Public Outreach Through Student Training: An Example of a NPS-University Partnership in Western Pennsylvania (2016)
  96. Public Perception of Louisiana Voodoo: Eighteenth Century Practices In The Digital Age (2018)
  97. Public Programs and Covid: Response from Participant Programs at James Madison’s Montpelier (2021)
  98. Public Spaces For The People: A Preliminary Investigation Of Colonial Taverns And Markets In Charleston, South Carolina (2017)
  99. Public Underwater Archaeology: Public Perception VS. Plausible Reality in the Case of the CSS Pee Dee Cannon Raising. (2017)
  100. Public Use of Beach Shipwrecks on African Shores (2017)