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. Rediscovering the Early 19th-Century Flint Glass Industry on Philadelphia’s Waterfront (2016)
  2. Rediscovering the Landscapes of Wingos and Indian Camp: An Archaeological Perspective (2015)
  3. Rediscovering the Original Provo, Utah Tabernacle: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Mormon Meetinghouse (2013)
  4. Rediscovering USS San Diego: 100 Years from the U-boat Attack (2018)
  5. The Rediscovery of The City of Tampa, a 19th-Century Single Screw Steamboat (2014)
  6. Redressing Power: Road Building in British Colonial Cyprus (2013)
  7. Reduce Reuse Repurpose: Ships as landscape modification features (2019)
  8. Reducing a Threat: Environmental Significance of the Wreck of USNS Mission San Miguel (2017)
  9. Reef Beacons; Unlit and Forgotten: Interpreting History for the Future (2016)
  10. A Reevaluation of the Excavations at George Washington's Blacksmith Shop (2018)
  11. Reexamining Invisibility: Memories of Catoctin Furnace African American Cemetery Archaeology (2023)
  12. Refined earthenware ceramics among enslaved Afro-Andeans at the post-Jesuit haciendas of San Joseph and San Xavier in Nasca, Peru (2017)
  13. Refiniing Pinky's Grand Idea for Tobacco Pipe Stem Dating to Enhance Analytic Insights (2020)
  14. Refining Our Recoveries: Distribution of Possible Life Support Equipment at an F-4D aircraft crash site in Laos (2022)
  15. Refining Sugar : French Circulations of Goods and Individuals in the Atlantic World from the 16th Century (2023)
  16. Refining The Hermitage Chronologies (2018)
  17. "Refining" Coarse Earthenware Types from the British Coal Measures (2017)
  18. Refit for Active Service: Merchant Vessel Conversion and the "Golden Age" of American Whaling (2020)
  19. Reflecting on Point of View: Telling Stories with Archaeology (2022)
  20. Reflecting on the Past and the Shaping of the Present at the Theodore Roosevelt School (2023)
  21. A Reflection Of Society: 19th Century Mark-Making, Engravings And Inscriptions In The Caves Of Isla De La Mona. (2016)
  22. Reflections From the Street: Current practices of collaboration and co-authorship in the contemporary archaeology of homelessness project. (2013)
  23. Reflections in the Hermitage Spring, or How a Summer in Tennessee Drove me Underwater (2018)
  24. Reflections on Community Engagement & Digital Approaches: The Effects & Impacts of Different Tools (2013)
  25. Reflexive Archaeology: Interrogating an Early Archaeologist on an American Indian Sacred Landscape (2022)
  26. A Reflexive Paradigm: Improving Understanding of our Shared Human Heritage (2018)
  27. Reform and Archaeology (2013)
  28. Reformation and the State in Iceland (2014)
  29. Reforming the Collection: Documentation, Fieldwork, and the NAGPRA Process at SUNY Oswego (2018)
  30. Reframing Material Culture Meaning using the Elements (INAA) of Surprise (2014)
  31. Reframing the Refuge: Interpreting Enslavement at Monocacy National Battlefield through Black Feminist Perspectives (2021)
  32. "A Refuge of Cure or of Care": The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane (2018)
  33. Refugees, Resettlement, Revealed History and Commemoration of the Tutelo Diaspora (2020)
  34. A Regional Approach to Submerged Naval Aircraft Studies (2020)
  35. Regional Maritime Networks of Bronze Age Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean (2020)
  36. Regional Settlement Patterns in the Colonization of Historical Landscapes: the New Acadia Project Archaeological Survey (2018)
  37. Regional Shipwreck Surveys – The Mainstay of UASBC (2015)
  38. Regional Synthesis and Best Practices for the Application of Geophysics to Archaeological Projects in the Middle Atlantic Region. (2016)
  39. Regional-To-Global Trade Networks Reflected In Isolated Alaskan Gold Camps (2020)
  40. Regionality and Relations to the State in the Andagua Valley, Southern Peruvian Andes (2019)
  41. Regulating Bodily Care in the Pre-Prohibition Era: Landscapes of Morality in 1900s Washington, DC (2021)
  42. Rehabilitating America’s Forgotten Excavations: Case Studies from the Veterans Curation Program (2015)
  43. Rehousing, retreating, and re-evaluation: The Ronson Ship as both a Museum Collection and an Archaeological Asset (2020)
  44. Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Applying the Pathological Index (PI) to Historical Assemblages in North America (2016)
  45. Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Getting to the Meat of the Matter-Identifying Butchery Goals and Reconstructing Meat Cuts from Eighteenth Century Colonial Virginia (2016)
  46. Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Methods and Themes in Recent Literature (2016)
  47. Reintegrating a Traumatized Nation: Grief, Memory, and Reconciliation at Finnish Civil War Sites (2019)
  48. Reinterpreting a Nineteenth Century Dairy Agricultural Landscape (2018)
  49. Reinventing the Colonial Plantation on French Saint-Christophe (2020)
  50. The Relational Landscape of Plantation Slavery: An Archaeological Survey of Enslaved Life at Good Hope Estate, Trelawny, Jamaica (2015)
  51. The Relationship Between Colonial French and Native American Artifacts at the Louis Blanchette Site, 23SC2101 (2017)
  52. Relevant, Refocused, Rehabilitated, Re-engaged: Working with Military Veterans in National Park Service Archaeology (2020)
  53. Religion, Memory and Materiality: Exploring the Origins and Legacies of Sectarianism in the North of Ireland (2018)
  54. Religious Colonialism: prison graffiti at the Inquisitor’s Palace, Malta (2014)
  55. The Religious Landscape of Barbados Quakerism (2018)
  56. Remaining on the Estate: Post-Emancipation Tenantry at St. Nicholas Abbey Sugar Plantation, St. Peter, Barbados (2017)
  57. Remains of the Solglimt survivor camp on Sub-Antarctic Marion Island (2014)
  58. Remaking Archaeology: Assessing Impacts of Collaborative Indigenous Methodologies on Mohegan Archaeology (2018)
  59. Remaking the Swahili Coast in the Interior: Rashid bin Masud and the Creation of Kikole (2022)
  60. Remedy and Poison: Examining a Detroit Household’s Consumption of Proprietary Medicine at the Turn of the 20th Century (2016)
  61. "Remember Paoli!" The Intersection Between Memory and Public Archaeology (2019)
  62. Remember the Ladies: Women Scientific Gardeners (2017)
  63. Remembering a Painful Past: Fredericksburg's Slave Auction Block (2020)
  64. Remembering and Forgetting: Civil War Prisoner of War Camp Cemeteries in the North (2016)
  65. Remembering Jim Crow Again – Representing African American Experiences of Travel and Leisure at U.S. National Park Sites Critically (2018)
  66. Remembering Paoli: Archaeology and Memory Associated with Conflict Sites (2018)
  67. Remembering place(s): Changing commemorative traditions in and across Chinese diaspora cemeteries in North America and Hawaii, 1900-1960 (2014)
  68. Remembering River Road: A Study of Three African American Communities in the Lower Cape Fear Region of North Carolina (2020)
  69. Remembering the "Lost Cause:" The Power of the Memorial Landscape and Cornerstone "Relics" from Louisville’s Confederate Monument (2018)
  70. Remembering the Forgotten: Archaeology at the Morrissey WW1 Internment Camp (2015)
  71. Remembering the Great Terror: Tangible and Intangible Heritage at Sites of Stalinist Repression (2017)
  72. Remembering the Raj: Kolkata India's South Park Street Cemetery, Creating and Commemorating Anglo-Indian Society (2016)
  73. Remembering the Rancho: Insights into Social Memory at Rancho Kiuic, Yucatán, México (2018)
  74. Remembering the Tenant Farmers: A comparison of two late 19th-century tenant farm dwellings in Maryland. (2016)
  75. Remembering through Landscape: Decolonizing the narrative of a Federal Indian Boarding School (2018)
  76. Remembering Tocobaga: The Effacement and Persistent Materiality of a Native Florida Town (2023)
  77. Remembering Tomorrow: Wagon Roads, Identity and the Decolonisation of a First Nations Landscape (2014)
  78. Remembrance abroad: 16th century graveslabs of German merchants in Shetland and Iceland (2023)
  79. Remote archeology in Arkansas (2021)
  80. Remote Control: Collections Intake, Output & Policy During The Time Of Covid At The Ontario Heritage Trust (2021)
  81. Remote sensing and coastal site management of the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Cascais and Oeiras (Portugal): The case of the São Julião da Barra site.   (2013)
  82. A Remote Sensing Investigation of Historic Osborn, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (2020)
  83. Remote Sensing of Lakes in Telemark, Norway (2013)
  84. Remotely Sensing Pasts, Imaging Better Futures: The Application of Refined Remote Sensing Techniques To Métis Archaeology (2021)
  85. ‘»Removes All Obstacles»: The Place of Abortifacients in Nineteenth Century Toronto (2014)
  86. Rending the Social Fabric: Revolution in Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1774-1779 (2022)
  87. Reparations & Archaeology: Envisioning Social Justice for People of African Descent (2021)
  88. The Repatriation of Artifacts to Storm, an 18th Century Shipwreck (2018)
  89. Repopulating a Prospect of the Past: Archaeological Analysis of a Late Eighteenth-Century Manor House Dependency in Albany, New York (2014)
  90. A Report on Recent Archaeology Projects at Fort Necessity National Battlefield (2017)
  91. A Report on Recent Discoveries of Historic Shipwrecks off the Maltese Islands (2019)
  92. Report on the Status of Lake Champlain Maritime Musem's New Digital Mapping Project (2019)
  93. Reporting New Collections of Glass Beads from France (16th - 19th Century): Typology and Chemical Composition (2023)
  94. Representations and Iconography – Images of Finns and Finland in Stamps at the 1930s (2018)
  95. "Representativeness" and Sampling Dilemmas: A Comparison of Slave Cabins at the Bulow Plantation (1821-1836), Flagler County, Florida (2017)
  96. Representing Pennsylvania Colonial Expansion and Indigenous Trade in GIS (2022)
  97. Reproducing the National Family: Postcolonial Reunion Rituals, Landmarks and Objects (2014)
  98. Rescue Archaeology in Cameroon: An Analysis of the Controversial Implication Role of Students (2019)
  99. Research and Conservation of Waterlogged Rubber Gaskets from USS Monitor (1862) (2021)
  100. Research and Ethics in Cemetery Delineations (2013)