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. Public vs. Private in the Domestic Spaces of the Enslaved: Yards and their Uses at Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida, 1814-1860 (2016)
  2. Public-Private Partnership Model For Excavation Of The Portuguese Nau Esmeralda (1503) (2018)
  3. Public/Private Consumption in the Performance of Respectability and Gentility at 71 Joy Street, Boston, MA. (2022)
  4. Publishing Unprovenanced Artifacts (2017)
  5. Pueblo Agricultural Persistence and Innovation during Spanish Colonization (2022)
  6. The Puebloan construction wood-use cycle: Implications for dendroarchaeological research (2014)
  7. Puerto Rico’s Cook Books: Recipes of a History (2016)
  8. Pullman Heritage Project: Legacies of Race and Industry in a Fresh-Water Entrepôt (2018)
  9. Pulpits and Bones: African-American Vistas of Action, Innovation, and Tradition (2018)
  10. Pump Up the Jambs: Expanding the Catalog of Known Colonial Era Decorative Delftware Fireplace Tiles from Archaeological Contexts in North Carolina and Beyond (2020)
  11. Punk as an Organizing Structure and Ethos for Emancipatory Archaeological Practice (2015)
  12. A Purposeful Unpatterning: A Spatial Approach to Maroon Settlement in Florida (2020)
  13. PUSH Kiruna? An Arctic example of mobilizing archaeology to address Poverty and Plenty in Energy and Power. (2023)
  14. "Pushing Against a Stone": Landscape, Generational Breadth, and Community-Oriented Archaeological Approaches in the Plantation Chesapeake (2016)
  15. Pushing the Boundaries: Technology-Driven Exploration of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (2018)
  16. Pushing the Boundary: The Game of Cricket in a Colonial Context. (2016)
  17. Putting the Pieces Together: Forensic Facial Reconstruction of “Jane” (2014)
  18. Putting the Public Back in Archaeology: Restoration of a Civil War Era Gun Emplacement on Battery B at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (2016)
  19. A Puzzle from the Deep: The Mystery of the Empty 19th Century Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (2015)
  20. The Puzzle Of Pickles Reef - Update (2016)
  21. PXRF Analyses of Metal Artifacts from Spanish Colonial Sites in the American Southeast (2023)
  22. A pXRF Analysis on18th-Century Colonial Redware (2017)
  23. Pêcher à Miquelon: Provisioning Routes of Crève Coeur, Martinique (2020)
  24. QR Codes and Social Media: Tools for Education at Historic Brunswick Town (2019)
  25. QR Codes as Educational Tools at Historic Brunswick Town (2020)
  26. Quamhemesicos (Van Schaick) Island: Archeological Evidence of European-Mahican Interactions at the Twilight of Dutch Colonialism in New York (2022)
  27. The Quandary Of Diaspora: Folk Culture And African And Scottish Interactions At The Kingsley Plantation (1814-1839), Fort George Island, Florida (2015)
  28. Quantifying the Importance of Saltmarsh Grazing in Coastal Settlements: an Isotopic Approach (2023)
  29. Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence for World-System Expansion in Northern Iroquoia, ca. AD 1550-1650 (2021)
  30. Quarantined in the Promised Land: Honoring the Living and the Dead at the Staten Island Marine Hospital (2018)
  31. Queen Anne’s Revenge: A Very Lore-ful Site (2017)
  32. Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Church Crookham; Housing the British Army's Gurkha Regiments (2017)
  33. Queer Animacies: Disorienting Materialities in Archaeology (2015)
  34. Queer Frontier Identities: A Look at at the Laundresses' Quarters and Enlisted Married Men's Quarters of Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
  35. Queering the Heteronormal: Memorial Practices in the Historic Cemeteries of Erie County, Pennsylvania (2017)
  36. Queering the Household Group: Challenging the Boundaries of an Archaeological Unit (2015)
  37. Queering the Norm: Reinterpreting the Heterosexual Ideal (2015)
  38. Queerness is for White People: The Effects of the Idea of African American Sexual Deviancy among 19th Century Buffalo Soldiers (2015)
  39. Quelle histoire! (2014)
  40. Quelques défis de la conservation archéologique au site Cartier-Roberval (2014)
  41. The Question of Anomalies in Slave Archaeology: Evidence from an Antebellum Industrial Site (2017)
  42. A Question of Identity: Lessons From the 1916 World Trade Center Shipwreck (2023)
  43. A question that counts in maritime archaeology : linking historical and archaeological sources in the French West Indies (2014)
  44. Questioning Capitalism (2014)
  45. Questions Answered and the Way Forward: Results of the 2015 Clover Bottom Field Season and the New Questions Generated. (2016)
  46. Questions that Count in Australia, 2014 (2014)
  47. The Questions That Count in Fur Trade Archaeology (2014)
  48. Questions Unasked: Do Answers lie in Existing Deepwater Data? (2014)
  49. Questions, Methods, and Interpretations that Count: Reflections on Collaborative Archaeology in Nevis, West Indies (2014)
  50. Quite Voices and Silent Houses: Video ethnography on Inishark (2013)
  51. Québec City's Archaeological Master Plan (2013)
  52. Québec City’s archaeological master plan and the provincial Cultural Heritage Act (2014)
  53. The R.I.P. Myth: Why There Is Little Peace For Philadelphia’s Unmarked Historic Burial Places (2022)
  54. Race and Alienation in Baltimore's Hampden (2016)
  55. Race and Reconciliation: Public Archaeology and History in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina. (2022)
  56. Race and the water: the materiality of swimming, sewers and segregation in African America (2017)
  57. Race, Gender, and Consumerism in Nineteenth Century Virginia (2017)
  58. Race, Health, and Hygiene in a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp (2018)
  59. The Racialized Landscapes of Real Property and Finance Capital in Western Massachusetts (2014)
  60. Racializing Surveillance and the (Re)Production of Blackness in Plantation Landscapes (2021)
  61. Racism and the Society for Historical Archaeology: Advancing an Anti-Racist Institutional Identity (2015)
  62. The Rad Clay Pad that the Spaniards Had: A Geoarchaeological Examination of Sixteenth Century Spanish Forts (2018)
  63. Radical Heritage Archaeology: A Case Study from the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (2013)
  64. Radicalizing African Diasporic Foodways When Academia is Not Enough (2018)
  65. Rafts on the East Branch: An Archaeology of Industry Along the Delaware River (2022)
  66. Railroad Camps in the High Sierras (2015)
  67. "Railroaded" - The Wreck of the Schooner Plymouth! (2015)
  68. Railroads and the Historic Resources to Understand their Significance (2021)
  69. Railroads and the Lumbering Frontier in Michigan (2020)
  70. Railroads, America, and the Formative Period of Historical Archaeology: A Documentary and Photographic Investigation into the Historic Preservation Movement (2016)
  71. Raising Alexandria: 3D Re-creation of 18th and 19th Century Landscape Development and Use on the Alexandria Waterfront. (2019)
  72. Raising Port Royal: A Geospatial Reconstruction of the Colonial City in 1692 (2017)
  73. Raising Public Awareness Utilising the UK’s Designated Wrecks (2013)
  74. Raising The Bar: Archaeology Collections Management (2016)
  75. The Ralph J. Bunche Community Project (2018)
  76. Rations, Hunting, Fishing, and Farms: Pre- and Post-Emancipation Foodways on James Island (2018)
  77. (Re)building the 87 Church Street Chronology: Archaeological Legacies and Telling Time in Urban Charleston (2022)
  78. (Re)Framing Colonial Histories and the African Diaspora through a Restorative Archaeology. (2023)
  79. (Re)Imagining the Material World of Lena Wooster (2014)
  80. (Re)Sinking History: Preserving Alexandria’s Derelict Merchant Fleet (2023)
  81. (Re)Telling the History of Cleveland Urban Neighborhoods (2017)
  82. Re-Cataloguing Artifacts from George Washington’s Blacksmith Shop (2020)
  83. Re-envisioning Mount Vernon: a digital reconstruction of George Washington’s Estate. (2015)
  84. Re-examining the Missouri River Fur Trade: Comparing Artifact Assemblages from Trade Post Collections (2019)
  85. Re-excavating the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck: The Converging Worlds Project Overview (2018)
  86. Re-inventing the Spatial Analysis of Shipwrecks (2014)
  87. Re-Rediscovering Iliniwek Village: Utilizing Material Culture to Better Understand Early Trade Along the Mississippi River. (2019)
  88. Re-think, Re-claim and Re-do: Unsettled Heritage Migration (2023)
  89. Reaching for the Channel, Part 3 (2016)
  90. Reactions to tragedy: familial and community memorials to sudden deaths in Britain and Ireland (2019)
  91. Readdressing Conservation In Situ: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Underwater Cultural Heritage Management (2016)
  92. Reading Animal Remains: Identifying community specific foodways through faunal analysis. (2018)
  93. Reading Between The Iron Lines: An Analysis Of Cannon Arrangement On Caribbean Shipwrecks (2018)
  94. Reading between the Lines: Building the Historic Context for a Female Planter in mid-18th Century Piedmont Virginia (2017)
  95. Reading Ceramic Use Wear: A Twist in the Plot (2014)
  96. Reading, Writing, and Riots: Constructing Masculinity on an Antebellum College Campus (2015)
  97. Real Pirates of the Caribbean: Archaeological Interpretation of Captain Kidd and Captain Morgan’s Shipwrecks (2013)
  98. The Real Value of an 1853 Dollar: A Foundation Rite Date Coin from the Levi Jordan Plantation House in Brazoria County, Texas (2017)
  99. The Reality of Predictive Modeling: Experiences and Lessons Learned at Two Military Training Facilities (2018)
  100. Realizing Autonomy: Building the Capacity of Senegal’s First Underwater Archaeologists (2018)