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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- The River Basin Surveys: Studying Twentieth Century Archaeological Investigations and their Nineteenth Century Subjects (2017)
- The River Overlook Fortifications on Bemus Heights at Saratoga NHP (2016)
- A River Runs Through It: Archaeology along the Lower Mississippi River in Southern Louisiana (2023)
- The River Street Digital History Project (2015)
- Riverine Site Formation Process of Steamboat Wreck Sites in the Western United States (2013)
- The Road From Big Rock Candy Mountain: Boomsurfer Strategies in the American West (2015)
- The Road to Wealth: How the EP & NE Railroad Changed New Mexico (2017)
- Roads and Landscape Dynamics on Monticello's Mountaintop (2015)
- Roads of Rebellion and Resistance: Tracing English and Indigenous Paths Across Virginia’s Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula (2023)
- Roadside America in the West: History along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail (2015)
- Robert J. Walker Shipwreck Mapping Project (2016)
- Robert L. Schuyler and the Emergence of an Archaeology of Ethnicity: "A topic of interest to both the profession and the public" (2017)
- Robert L. Schuyler and the History of Historical Archaeology (2017)
- Robert Schuyler as a Model of Making Space for Diversity of Thought (2017)
- Rock Salt Mining in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile, during the 20th Century: Protoindustrialization or Industrialization in the Periphery? (2015)
- Rockley Bay Research Project, 2013 Field Season: In Search of the Dutch Line of Battle (2014)
- Rockly Bay Research Project: Archaeology of a Naval Battle 2012 Field Season (2013)
- Rogue Fishermen and Rebel Miners: Informal Economy and Drinking Spaces in Maine and Montana’s Resource Extraction Communities (2014)
- The Role of Caves and Gullies in the Creation of Community Networks Among Enslaved Workers in Barbados (2014)
- The Role of Health and Wellness Tourism in the Evolution of Labor Regimes in the American South (2020)
- The role of historical archaeology in the emergence of nationalist identities in the Celtic countries (2014)
- The Role of Landscape in Power Dynamics of the Past: An Example from Eighteenth-Century Piedmont Virginia (2013)
- The Role of Seminary Schools in the Colonization of Hawaiian Gender Structures (2019)
- The Role of Systematic Metal Detection in Phase III Data Recovery: Investigation of a Nineteenth Century Slave and Freedmen Occupation at Colonel’s Island Plantation (2018)
- The Role of Time in Plantation Management at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2017)
- Roman Clay Coffins: Maritime Mortuary Trade and Cultural Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean (2020)
- Roman lead ingots from shipwrecks: a key to understanding immigration from Campania, Southern Latium and Picenum in the mining district of Carthago Nova in the Late Republican and Early Imperial eras (2013)
- Room for All: A Pluralistic Approach to Privileged Spaces (2017)
- A Room within a Room: The Great Cabin on Vasa (2020)
- Roots in the Community: A Macrobotanical Analysis of Enslaved African-American Households at James Madison's Montpelier (2016)
- Roots, Resilience, and Resistance: Evaluating Evidence of African American Herbal Medicine (2022)
- The Rose Revealed: conserving and presenting an Elizabethan playhouse (2014)
- Round Pegs and Square Holes: The Casks from Vasa. (2018)
- Routes Of Removal: Vessel Biographies And The Island Transfer Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Queensland, Australia (2018)
- Routine Expedition: Using Intra-Agency Partnerships to Manage U.S. Navy Sunken Military Craft (2018)
- An ROV for Underwater archaeology (2014)
- ROV-Based 3D Modeling Efforts on a Submerged WWII Aircraft for Museum Display (2016)
- The Royal Armorer, Visiting Indian Delegations, and Colonoware at the Heyward-Washington House: Tales from a Legacy Collection (2020)
- The Royal Treatment Part II: Analysis and Conservation of Archaeological Material from Revolutionary War vessel Royal Savage (2019)
- The Royal Treatment: Conservation of Archaeological Material from Revolutionary War Vessel Royal Savage (2018)
- RT This: The Collaborative Public Archaeology Brand in Social Media (2013)
- Ruins of a Forgotten Highway: The impacts of improvements by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the St. Croix Riverway after 100 years. (2016)
- The Ruins of a Plantation-Era Landscape: Using LiDAR and Pedestrian Survey to Locate Montserrat’s 17th-19th Century Colonial Past. (2016)
- "The Rules of Good Breeding Must be Punctiliously Observed": Constructing Space at Mid-Nineteenth Century Fort Vancouver, Washington (2015)
- Rules of the Road: The Intersection of Data Recovery, Highway Construction, and Pandemic Management (2021)
- Rum and Archaeology: A Preliminary Report of the Excavation of the Still House on the Betty’s Hope Plantation, Antigua. (2015)
- The Rural Cemetery Movement and Collective Memory (2020)
- Russian Colonial-Influenced Architecture in an Alaska Creole Village, Afognak, Alaska (2015)
- Russian Occupation of St. Matthew and Hall Islands, Bering Sea Wildlife Refuge, Alaska (2015)
- "Rust Is The New Black" Industrial Incarceration Of The Utah State Prison Dump (2020)
- RVA Archaeology and the Changing Discourse of Archaeology in Richmond (2016)
- S.S. Thomas T. Tucker (1942): Updated Research on a Wrecked U.S. Liberty Ship in South Africa (2017)
- Sacred or Mundane? Use of Comparative Zooarchaeology to Interpret Feature Significance at Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida (2017)
- Sacred, Forgotten and Remembered – Forgotten Sacred Places in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland (2016)
- "Sad And Dismal Is The Story": Great Lakes Shipwrecks And The Folk Music Tradition (2017)
- Saddle Plates, Sheaves And Sulfur: The Archaeological Visibility Of Chilkoot Pass Aerial Trams (2015)
- "A Sadness in Our Circle": Charting the Emotional Response to Norfolk’s 1855 Yellow Fever Epidemic (2016)
- Saenger Pottery Works: Preliminary Report, Unlocking a Town’s History through Their Pottery (2017)
- Safeguarding the Great White North’s Submerged Treasures for Half a Century: An Overview of 50 years of Underwater Archaeology at Parks Canada (2014)
- Sailortown, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Exploring An Urban/maritime Community. (2016)
- Saint Croix Island: A 400 Year Climate Change Story (2020)
- Saké, Memory, and Identity among Japanese Migrant Communities (2014)
- Saké, Memory, Identity (2022)
- The Salcombe Bronze Age Wreck (2013)
- "Salt horse, salt horse, what brought you here?": A Look at Shipboard Diet Among the King's Shipyard (2020)
- Salted Beef, the Food of the Sailors: How to Make It and Why It Matters In Archaeology (2017)
- Salty Crew : Salt In Food Of Sailors In The 17th And 18th Centuries. (2023)
- A Salty Surprise (2019)
- Salubria, It's Gardens, and Extended Contexts: A Case Study of an 18th-Century Virginia Mansion (2021)
- The Salvage Of The Manila Galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción: Archaeology Or Treasure Hunting? (2019)
- Sampling in Archaeology and History: the Case of Colonizers in Mexico City (2014)
- San Antonio Missions in the Late 18th Century - Decline or Success? (2018)
- A San Diego Slave Quarters: Archaeological and Architectural Analyses of the Late 19th-and Early-20th Century Nate Harrison Cabin (2018)
- San Giacomo di Galizia: the reconstruction of a 16th-century Spanish vessel (2020)
- San Salvador de Kelang, Heping Dao, Taiwan (1626-1642): archaeology of Spanish early colonialism (2014)
- Sancti Spiritus (1526-1529), an Ephemeral but Diagnostic Spanish Fort (2023)
- The Sand Creek Sugarbush: Traces of an Extractive Agricultural Industry in Portage County, Ohio (2015)
- Sandalwood and Starfish: A Study of the Shipwreck Brunswick (1805) and Site Formation Processes in Simons Bay (2015)
- Sands of Time: Bathymetric History of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck Area (2023)
- Sankofa Archaeology: "Going Back" as an Afrodecolonial Methodology (2021)
- Sankofa in Cyberspace: Developing New and Social Media at the African Burial Ground National Monument (2013)
- Sarah’s Slate: a Child’s Image of Home (2014)
- Satellite Remote Sensing of Archaeological Vegetation Signatures in Coastal West Africa (2016)
- Savage Meets Science: The Rebirth of Royal Savage through Modern Technology (2017)
- A Savage Plan: Interpreting Hull Remains of an American Revolutionary War Schooner (2019)
- Saving Princess Carolina: Current Condition and Treatment Research of Sulfur-affected Maritime Timbers (2021)
- Sawed Bones - Archaeological History of Autopsies in Finland (2019)
- Say It with Flowers: Recording African-American Gardening Traditions Using Terrestrial LiDAR and Oral History (2019)
- "Saying Their Names": Decolonizing Interpretation of the Liberty Hall Academic and Plantation Landscape (2022)
- Scalar Analysis of Early 19th century Household Assemblages—Focus on Communities of the African Atlantic (2013)
- Scales of production and exchange for Afro Caribbean wares from slave villages on Nevis and St Kitts (2014)
- Scaling and Integration in Environmental Archaeology (2016)
- Scan 3D et archéologie : bilan de 10 ans d’expérimentations et de réalisations au Québec (2014)
- Scandinavian Colonialism in Sápmi and Sámi Archaeology in Scandinavia - Archaeological Perspectives on Northern Colonial Landscapes and Sámi Religion in the 17th and 18th Centuries (2013)
- "Scattered Piles Of Wreckage" The Maritime Legacy Of Middlesex County New Jersey (2022)
- The Scenic Route: Historic Filming Locations of Utah (2020)
- A School for Williamsburg's Enslaved: The Bray School Archaeological Project (2013)
- The Schuyler Effect: From Brooklyn to Lowell, Utah, and Beyond (2017)
- Schuyler’s "Guide to Substantive and Theoretical Contributions"—Then and Now (2017)
- Schwatka: The History and Engineering of a Late Nineteenth-Century Yukon River Steamboat (2015)