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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  • Documents (6,639)
  1. Scientific and Historical Analysis of Dis-articulated Human Skeletal Remains from James Fort, 1607 - (1615?) (2014)
  2. Scorpion’s Last Sting: The Investigation of a War of 1812 Shipwreck in the Patuxent River, Maryland (2016)
  3. Scrannying for Spidge amongst the Shipwrecks; Interviewing the Pirates of Plymouth, England. (2015)
  4. The Scrapbook: A "Conundrum of the Archives" (2023)
  5. Scraping Our Way To The Past: A Methodological Approach For Chinese Rural Work Camps (2015)
  6. Scraping Our Way To The Past:A Methodological Approach for Chinese Rural Work Camps (2015)
  7. Scratched Horses and Whirling Logs: A Reassessment of Navajo Rock Art In Chaco Canyon (2022)
  8. Scratching the Surface: New Discoveries Within Old Archeological Collections (2016)
  9. Scratching the Surface: Using GIS to Understand Richmond Archaeology (2016)
  10. "Scurvy on the Great Plains:" Archaeology, Geophysics, and Stories of Fort Rice (2020)
  11. Sea & the City: A Red Star Line Assemblage in Antwerp (Belgium) (2020)
  12. Seadogs and Their Parrots: The Reality of Pretty Polly (2015)
  13. Seafaring in Seacountry (2023)
  14. Seafaring Women in Confined Quarters: Living Conditions aboard Ships in 19th Century (2018)
  15. Sealed Stories: Case Studies in Lead Seal Identification and Analysis (2020)
  16. Seals and Salves in the Pays des Illinois (2019)
  17. Search for a Seamless Narrative: Thoughts on Engaging the General Public Through Writing and Other Means (2016)
  18. The Search for B-29 Joltin’ Josie the Pacific Pioneer (2020)
  19. The Search for Fort St. Mary’s: Dreams of the Past, Hopes for the Future (2014)
  20. The Search for Lucy: Uncovering the Captive African History of Western New England (2014)
  21. The Search for the 1634 Fort at Historic St. Mary’s City: Ground-Truthing a Geophysical Prospection Survey (2020)
  22. Search for the Clotilda, Mobile River Shipwreck Survey, 2018 Fieldwork Recap (2019)
  23. A Search for the Fort at St. Mary’s City: Results of a Tripartite Geophysical Prospection Survey at Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (2019)
  24. The Search for the Lost French Fleet of 1565: Results of the 2014 Survey (2015)
  25. Search for the Revenue Cutter BEAR (2023)
  26. The Search for Vasco da Gama’s Lost Ships - Esmeralda and São Pedro (2018)
  27. The Search for Yarrow Mamout in Georgetown: A Preliminary Assessment (2016)
  28. Searching for Clarity (and Lead) in Colorless Colonial Glass Tableware from Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck (2018)
  29. Searching for Guerrero in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (2018)
  30. Searching for Guinea Street: Cato Freeman, Lucy Foster, and the African American community of Andover, Massachusetts (2014)
  31. Searching for mineral wealth: a preliminary investigation into the metallurgical assemblage from Cartier-Roberval (2014)
  32. Searching for Proud Shoes: The Pauli Murray Project and the Place of Historical Archaeology within a Social Justice Organization (2017)
  33. Searching For Slavery In Saint Domingue. (2017)
  34. Searching For the Foundation: An Overview of a Historic Industrial Complex in Pensacola, Florida (2020)
  35. Searching for the Lewis and Clark Expedition at Ft. Kaskaskia, Illinois (2018)
  36. Searching for the Plaza Vieja: historical archaeology, ground-penetrating radar, and community outreach in Belen, New Mexico (2015)
  37. Searching for the St. Croix Leper Hospital via Geophysical Survey (2022)
  38. Searching For Unmarked Burials At Residential Schools in Canada: Leave No Child Behind (2023)
  39. Seas of Connection: The Irish-Italian Comparison In Understanding The Marginal State (2018)
  40. The Second Battle of the Atlantic (1939 and 1945): a Context for Understanding the Archaeological Remains of a Battleground at Sea (2014)
  41. Second campaign of excavation on the Saintes Bays Wreck, Guadeloupe, FWI (2017)
  42. A Second Life for the Alt-Right: Uses of Conservative Material Culture in Online Spaces (2018)
  43. Secondary Colonization and the Persistence of Cultural Traditions: A Look at Ceramic Consumption in Post-Conquest Québec (2014)
  44. Secrets Stashed in Dental Impacta: Best Practices (2017)
  45. Section 106 Contributions to Urban Archaeology: What Was Lost is Now Found (2016)
  46. Sediment Identification Challenges: Is That Really Ancient Bilge Mud? (2013)
  47. Seditious Sentiment along the Cape Fear: New Discoveries at Brunswick Town (2021)
  48. Seeding Colonialism; European trade Beads within Native American Contexts (2017)
  49. Seeds of misfortune: plant macroremains left in St. Peter’s Bay, PEI by Acadian deportees (2014)
  50. Seeds, Weeds, and Feed: Macrobotanical Analysis of Enslaved African-American Plant Use and Foodways at a James Madison's Montpelier (2015)
  51. Seeing African-Native American Identities Through Gendered, Multifocal Lenses (2018)
  52. Seeing Forests Through the Seas: Ship Timbers as Landscape Artifacts in the Middle Atlantic (2022)
  53. Seeing Native Histories in Post-Mission California (2018)
  54. Seeing the Past through the Soil and Trees of Poplar Forest (2016)
  55. Seeing the Unseen: The feasibility of Using Side Scan Sonar on the War Eagle Shipwreck Site (2019)
  56. Seeing Women in "Male" Spaces: Consumer Choice in Fugitive Slave Villages in 19th-Century Kenya (2013)
  57. Seeking Justice in Black Spaces: The Geography, Memory, and Power of Race Massacres in the United States (2021)
  58. Seeking Stories of Family and Community: Resituating Antebellum and Postbellum Narratives at Clover Bottom (2016)
  59. Seeking the Indigenous Perspective: Colonial Interactions, Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Fort St. Pierre, 1719-1729, Vicksburg, Mississippi (2017)
  60. Seen From The Helm – A Shipbuilder’s / Seafarer’s Perspective On Digital Reconstruction (2023)
  61. Seizing Jerusalem: Archaeology, landscape preservation and the ‘Wall’ (2013)
  62. Seminole Deathways and Resistance at Fort Brooke (2017)
  63. "Send Me a Postcard and Don’t Forget to Sign It": Comments from a Current Schuyler Student (2017)
  64. Seneca Village Digital: Bringing Collaborative Historical Archaeology and Heritage Advocacy Online (2020)
  65. Seneca Village: The Making and Un-making of a Distinctive 19th-Century Place on the Periphery of New York City (2018)
  66. Senkan no Aki no Tsuki: Interpreting Depictions of the Landscape at WWII Heart Mountain Camp (2020)
  67. Sense of Belonging and Self-Efficacy: How the Field School Experience Change Students’ Views of Their Abilities in Archaeology (2022)
  68. Sensory Perspectives on Maize and Identity Formation in Colonial New England (2018)
  69. A Sequence of French Vernacular Architectural Design and Construction Methods in Colonial North America, 1690-1850 (2016)
  70. Serendipity and Industrial Labor Development: Indigenous Labor in the Western Arctic Commercial Whaling Industry (2014)
  71. The Serenity Farm African American Burial Ground (2016)
  72. Serious Miracles: Semiotic Battlefields of the Spanish Reconquista in 17th Century New Mexico (2020)
  73. Set in stone and pencilled in: indelible memories and the inscription of space at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney (2014)
  74. Set in Stone: A Look at What Archaeology and Archival Research Tells Us About the Construction of the Stone Church and Convento at Mission San Antonio de Valero (41BX6). (2020)
  75. Sets and Sensibility: Tea Service and the Excavation of Ideology and Desire (2014)
  76. Setting Boundaries: Identifying the Homes of Enslaved Field Workers at James Madison's Montpelier (2015)
  77. Setting the Machine in Motion: What Triggers Archaeological Review at the Local Level? (2014)
  78. Settlement and Industry in the Wild West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (2018)
  79. A Settlement Ecology Approach to Examining the Transition to Commercial Farming in Upstate New York, 1855-1875 (2021)
  80. Settlement in Colonial Quebec: Implications from a Stable Isotope Study of Enamel Carbonate from Montréal and Québec City (2014)
  81. Settlement Orginization at Sugarloaf Estate (2015)
  82. Settlement Patterns and Probabilities for the Southern Virginia Piedmont: An Archaeological Synthesis and Geospatial Model of 18th- and 19th-Century Sites (2021)
  83. Settling a Waste-land: Mapping Historic Can Scatters in the Western Mojave Desert (2020)
  84. Seventeenth Century Battlefields in Colonial New England (2016)
  85. The Seventeenth-Century Brewhouse at Ferryland, Newfoundland (2018)
  86. Seventeenth-Century Ceramics Related to an Enameler’s Workshop in Rouen (2014)
  87. Seventeenth-Century Shipboard Beer: An Experimental Archaeology Approach On Brewing Old Recipes Accurately (2017)
  88. Sewagescapes: Urban Growth and Topography of Sewage Districts in Central Illinois (2021)
  89. Sex and Penitence: Untold Stories of 18th-Century Contraception and Religious Fervor from Collections Excavated in the 1980s (2017)
  90. Sex in a Cup: Feminist Dilemmas in French Chocolate (2017)
  91. Sex Workers in the City: Presentation and Interaction in 19th-century Boston’s Urban Landscape (2016)
  92. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: Digging Hippie Archaeology in the Lone Star State (2013)
  93. Sexuality in the (Nineteenth-Century) City: Practicing Class in Gotham’s Bedrooms (2016)
  94. Shackleford Banks: The Economical and Environmental Changing Coastal Dynamics from the Early 1800s to the Creation of the National Seashore. (2022)
  95. The shadow of Mary Beaudry in Antarctic Archeology (2022)
  96. Shaken Apart: Community Archaeology In A Post-Industrial Earthquake City (2018)
  97. Shallow Water Hydrographic surveys in support of archaeological site preservation: Queen Anne’s Revenge Wreck Site, North Carolina (2016)
  98. Shanties on the Mountainside: A Look at Labor on the Blue Ridge Railroad (2018)
  99. The Shape of the Matagrana Shipwreck, an English Merchant Vessel from Late 17th to Mid-18th Centuries (2020)
  100. Shaping the City from Detroit’s Rediscovered Archaeological Collections (2015)