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. Shaping the Landscape: A Chronology of Shore Line Changes (2019)
  2. Shards of the Atlantic: Sweden and 17th-Century Colonialism (2013)
  3. Shared Authority, Reflective Practice, and Community Outreach: Thoughts on Parallel Conversations in Public History and Historical Archaeology (2015)
  4. Shared Bodies: Social Patterns in Rural East Jersey and the Formation of an African American Community (2022)
  5. Shared Landscapes and Contested Spaces: The Military Landscapes of St. Kitts and St. Eustatius (2023)
  6. Sharing and Cooperating: The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (2021)
  7. Sharing and Using Knowledge Derived from Experience: Early Cultural Resource Evaluations of the OCS (2022)
  8. Sharing Stories of The Sunken Prize (2020)
  9. Sharing the Buried History of the Apperson Community, Menifee County, Kentucky (2019)
  10. Sharing the CRM Wealth: Creating a Searchable Archaeological Database with GIS (2019)
  11. Sharing the Interpretive Center at Colonial Williamsburg: Archaeologists, Historical Interpreters, and Descendant Communities (2015)
  12. Sharing the Story: Developing Collaborative Educational Experiences at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2023)
  13. Sharing the Sweet Life: Public Archaeology in practice at a historic Louisiana sugar mill (2014)
  14. Sharing The Wealth: Crowd Sourcing Texts And Artifacts (2016)
  15. A “Sharp Prick of Hunger”: Defining Famine Food (2014)
  16. "She Dressed in Strictly Native Style": The Materiality of Power and Identity in the 19th Transatlantic Slave Trade (2023)
  17. Shedding Light On Early Twentieth Century Logging: The Archaeological Remains Of A Lighting Power Plant At Camp A Of The Bridal Veil Lumbering Company, Multnomah County, Oregon (ca. 1910~1920) And Its Implications For Camp Life And Industrial Culture Of The Period (2021)
  18. The Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Four Early Nineteenth-Century Steamboats from Lake Champlain (2015)
  19. Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Results of the 2015 field season using traditional and new recording techniques. (2016)
  20. A Shell Above the Waters: An Ojibwa Maritime Cultural Landscape (2019)
  21. Shell Beads in the Sixteenth Century Northeast (2020)
  22. Shields’s Folly: A Tavern and Bathhouse in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia (2016)
  23. The Shift From Tobacco To Wheat Farming: Using Macrobotanical Analysis To Interpret How Changes In Agricultural Practices Impacted The Daily Activities Of Monticello’s Enslaved Field Laborers. (2016)
  24. Shifting Focus: Reorienting Western Histories with Historical Archaeology (2019)
  25. Shifting Regimes: Progressive Southern Agriculture and the Enslaved Community (2017)
  26. Shifting Remembrance: On-Site and Digital Memorialization of Soviet Mass Repression in the Wake of COVID-19 (2021)
  27. Shifting Sands: Evolving Educational Programming to Support Maritime Archaeological Research in Massachusetts (2018)
  28. Shifts in Projectile Point Form from Pre-Mission through Mission Times within the Pluralistic Context of the Texas Missions (2022)
  29. Shining a Light on the Past: Jupiter Inlet (2019)
  30. Shining in the Tar Woods: An Examination of Illicit Liquor Distillation Sites in the Francis Marion National Forest (2018)
  31. Ship Graveyards: What Complete Shipwreck Removal Reveals About 19th Century Barge, Dredge and Tug Boat Construction (2015)
  32. Ship Imagery and Self-Liberation: Archaeological Investigations of Inter- Island Networks of the Enslaved at the Hughes Estate Plantation Site on Anguilla, B.W.I. (2022)
  33. Ship reconstruction and digital modeling: the example of the Aber Wrac'h 1 (France) (2013)
  34. Ship Scanners II: This Time, It's Technical (2017)
  35. Ship, Navire, Navío, Nave, Buque... Creating a Multi-Language Glossary for Early Modern Ship (2018)
  36. Shipboard Life aboard Phoenix II: Conserving and Interpreting the Artifacts from Lake Champlain’s Fifth Steamboat (2019)
  37. Shipbuilding in the Australian colonies before 1850 (2014)
  38. Ships As "Social Spaces": Analysing Shipwrecks From A Social Perspective (2020)
  39. Ships in the Harbor and Ships on Stone: Grand Marais as a Maritime Cultural Landscape on Lake Superior (2022)
  40. Ships, history, politics and archaeology : A critical look at the research History of ship archaeology in Germany (2014)
  41. Ships’ Bells: Significant History, Unknown Origins (2014)
  42. Shipwreck 43 and the formation of the ship graveyard in the central basin at Thonis-Heraclion, Egypt (2013)
  43. Shipwreck Ecology (2021)
  44. Shipwreck in a Melon Patch, An Archaeological Mystery from Gloucester County, New Jersey (2021)
  45. A Shipwreck Landscape Spatial Statistical Analysis (2023)
  46. Shipwreck of Colonial Making: The preliminary study of a Tasmanian-built ship wrecked in Victorian waters (1841-1853) (2021)
  47. Shipwreck Preserves and Cultural Heritage in Southern Lake Michigan (2022)
  48. Shipwreck Site Formation Processes of Commercial Fish Trawling and Dredging (2013)
  49. Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program (STAMP): A Model for Coastal Heritage Resource Management Based on Community Engagement and Citizen Science (2020)
  50. Shipwrecks and politics (2013)
  51. Shipwrecks Of The Florida Keys, Salvage, And The Conservation Movement (2016)
  52. Shipwrecks of the Itaparica Naval Combat, Brazil, 1648 (2014)
  53. Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: a maritime archaeological reassessment of some of Australia’s earliest Shipwrecks (2014)
  54. Shipwrecks with stories (2013)
  55. Shipwrecks, Doghole Ports, and the Lumber Trade: Maritime Cultural Landscape Survey of California’s Sonoma Coast (2017)
  56. Shipwrecks, Pirates, Governments, and Archaeologists: Can We All Just Get Along? (2013)
  57. Ship’s Equipment, Fittings, and Rigging Components from the Storm Wreck (2016)
  58. A Shoe: Soul of the Salubria Attic in Culpeper County, Virginia (2014)
  59. Shooting the Past: Colonial and Revolutionary War Firearms Live Fire Experiments and Spherical Ball Performance (2018)
  60. Shopping with the Hooded Order: The Ku Klux Klan Retail Landscape in 1920’s Indianapolis, Indiana (2020)
  61. Shore to Ship: The Application of KOCOA to a Maritime Military Environment (2018)
  62. Shore Whalers of the Outer Banks: A Material Culture Study (2015)
  63. Shore Whaling along California’s Central Coast (2020)
  64. Shoreline Site Preservation by Dredge Spoil (2019)
  65. Shoshoni Emigrant Interaction at Fort Bridger, Wyoming 1843-1868 (2019)
  66. Shot at Dawn: Memorialising First World War Executions for Cowardice in the Landscape of the UK's National Memorial Arboretum (2016)
  67. A Shot in the Dark: Assessing the Navigational Capabilities of H.L. Hunley (2018)
  68. Should You Care About Quality Assurance in Historical Archaeology? Yes, Especially in a Forensic Archaeology Context (2023)
  69. Shouting to Wake the Dead: Is it Time for a Historic Graves Protection Act? (2018)
  70. "Show Me the Maps!" An Application of Story Maps to Archaeological Interpretation (2017)
  71. Showing Your Work: The Role Of Public Archaeology In The Campaign To Save The ISM (2016)
  72. The Shrinking Island: Out-Migration and Settlement Organization, 19th – 20thcentury Inishark, Ireland. (2020)
  73. Siege Lines: Layered Landscapes and Difficult Histories on Yorktown Battlefield (2020)
  74. The Siege Of Petersburg: Reading Between The Lines (2018)
  75. Signaling Theory, Network Creation, and Commodity Exchange in the Historic Caribbean (2016)
  76. The Significance of Hotel Ware Ceramics in the Twentieth Century (2015)
  77. Significant Clay: Iconography and the Heroes Beneath Our Streets (2018)
  78. Signs of Life: Towards a Holistic Archaeology of Building Deposits (2021)
  79. Silk and Rifles: A Gender Analysis of Blockade Runner Cargos (2017)
  80. A Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear: The History and Archeology of the Monumental Core in Washington, DC (2016)
  81. The Silt Beneath Us -- cave sediments as archives of environmental change (2014)
  82. The Simple Life: Archeological Investigations of a German Immigrant Family Compund in Austin, Texas. (2013)
  83. A Simple Toy Soldier: An Exploration of Aritfacts as Metatext (2023)
  84. A "single closely dated assemblage"?: Re-examining the Timing and Nature of the House Clearance Deposit(s) in the Custis Well (2021)
  85. The Single-Use Vessel: Reuse And Recycling In The Construction Of The Cuban Chug (2017)
  86. A Singular Find, A Global Story: an Artifact Biography of a French Tobacco Pipestem Found at an American Civil War Encampment in Williamsburg, VA. (2022)
  87. Sinister and Righteous: Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record (2021)
  88. The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: Consequences and Memory (2017)
  89. The Sinking Of The Indian -1817- Or How History Resurfaces (2023)
  90. The Sinking of the Sacred: North Carolina’s Coastal Historic Cemetery Survey to Address Heritage Loss, Descendant Communities, and Cemetery Preservation (2022)
  91. Sinking Slowly: Adapting Underwater and Terrestrial Methods for Surveying Airplane Sites in the Bogs of Newfoundland and Labrador (2014)
  92. Sisneros and Cisneros: Place-Based Community Development Among Hispanic Homesteaders in Northeast New Mexico (2017)
  93. Site Formation and the location of Chinese Structures in Wyoming (2023)
  94. Site Formation Processes in the Mobile River: Analysis of Shipwreck Acoustic Imagery (2023)
  95. Site Formation Processes of Sunken Aircraft: A Case Study of Four WWII Aircraft in Saipan’’s Tanapag Lagoon (2014)
  96. Site Formation Processes of the Wreck of the U. S. Steamer Convoy in Pensacola Bay, Florida (2013)
  97. "The Site Mama": Mothering and Mentorship as the Taproot of Community Driven Research Projects (2020)
  98. Site Monitoring at Fort Eustis, Virginia (2018)
  99. Site Study and Reconstruction of the Pillar Dollar Wreck, Biscayne Bay, Florida (2015)
  100. "The Site Was Similar to Others in the City in That it Produced the Unexpected" Excavations at the IAAM Site on Gadsden’s Wharf (2022)