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. The Site With the Most Stuff Wins: Assessing Ephemeral Sites for the National Register (2014)
  2. Sites of Difficult Memory: The Haciendas of Chimborazo, Ecuador (2015)
  3. Sites of Memory: Historic African American Cemeteries in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. (2021)
  4. Situational Identity and The Materiality of Illegal Immigration (2014)
  5. Sixteenth Century Contact Between the Trent Valley ‘Hurons’ and the French on the St. Lawrence: Unearthing the Mosaic (2014)
  6. Sixth Annual SHA Ethics Bowl (2019)
  7. Sixty Years of Archeology in Independence National Historical Park: Learning from the Past, Digging for the Future (2016)
  8. Sixty Years of Encampment Archaeology at Valley Forge (2015)
  9. Skeletons in the Cabinet: Historical Memory and the Treatment of Human Remains Attributed to the Schenectady Massacre of 1690 (2020)
  10. Slate Pencils and Stoves: The Impact of the Rosenwald Fund on Schools in Gloucester, County Virginia (2020)
  11. Slave cemetery or not? An archeothanatological and anthropological approach from Guadaloupe (2013)
  12. Slave Foodways at James Madison’s Montpelier A.D. 1810- 1830 (2015)
  13. Slave Quarters, Stand, or Trash Dump? Determining Site Function at the Food Plot Site.  (2013)
  14. Slave Ships and Mutiny, The Cahuita National Park Shipwreck Survey in Costa Rica (2013)
  15. Slave Ships: Identifying Them in the Archaeological Record and Understanding Their Unique Characteristics (2015)
  16. The Slave Trade in the Gulf of Mexico: The Potential for Furthering Research through the Archaeology of Shipwrecked Slave Ships (2016)
  17. Slave village organization in the French West Indies. (2013)
  18. The Slave Water Well at Kingsley Plantation: The Unexpected Possibilities of an African Religiosity within a Secular Context (2014)
  19. The Slave Wrecks Project Digital Archive: Progress and Prospects (2016)
  20. The Slave Wrecks Project in National Park Units of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2016)
  21. The Slave Wrecks Project: An Agenda, An Approach for the Maritime Archaeology of the Slave Trade (2016)
  22. Slavery and Freedom on the Periphery: Faunal Analysis of Four Ante- and Post-bellum Maryland Sites (2015)
  23. Slavery and memory in France’s former colony: designing the commemoration of memory at the Loyola cemetery while respecting sensibilities of history (2013)
  24. Slavery and Resistance in Maryland: Findings From the L'Hermitage Slave Village Excavations (2016)
  25. Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda System of Nasca, Peru, 1619-1767 (2019)
  26. Slavery to Freedom on the Web: A Community Engagement Experiment for Online Exhibits (2013)
  27. Slavery, Race, and the Making of a University in the Capital of the Confederacy (2016)
  28. Slavery, Resistance, and Memory -The Case of Mauritius. (2020)
  29. Slaves as Individuals: Variability in Status and Identity Among the Field Slave Houses at Colonels Island Plantation, Georgia (2018)
  30. Slaves or Soldiers? Status Ambiguity in Masoud’s Followers at Kikole, Tanzania (2023)
  31. Slipped, Salted and Glazed: An Overview of North Carolina’s Pottery from 1750-1850 (2016)
  32. Slipware Philadelphia Style: Case Study from Recent Excavations at the Museum of the American Revolution Site (2016)
  33. "Sloops of 30 Tuns are Carried Overland in This Place":  Cart Roads, Trade, and Settlement in the Northern Delmarva Peninsula, C. 1670-1800. (2013)
  34. Small Beads, Big Picture: Patterns of Interaction identified From Blue Glass Artifacts from the Upper Great Lakes Region (2014)
  35. Small Chinese Settlements in the southwest Pacific: a brief look at Chinese Bakeries and Households in the Southwest Pacific 1890-1930 (2013)
  36. Small Finds, Big Stories (2019)
  37. Small Island, Big Mission: Landscapes of Presbyterianism in Aniwa, Vanuatu (2023)
  38. Small Islands Supporting Empires: Farming Landscapes in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Pivot of Local Food Sovereignty (2023)
  39. Small islands, big expectations: the role of Isla de Cabras in the defense of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (2023)
  40. Small Project, Big Questions: Unusual Finds from the Yale Lock Factory Site, Newport, New York (2020)
  41. Small Scale Farming to Large Scale Sugar Production, Capitalism, and Slavery in Barbados (2014)
  42. "A small secluded plot of ground": Preservation of the West Campus Cemetery at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC (2022)
  43. Small Steps to Preserve El Gigante: Conserving and Interpreting an Artifact from a Rockshelter in the Highlands of Honduras (2020)
  44. Small Things: Utilitarian Objects from the Crew of H. L. Hunley (2020)
  45. Small Towns and Mining Camps: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Diasporic Communities in Oregon (2020)
  46. Small Waists and Tiny Feet: The Influence of Fashion on Deformed Skeletal Remains, Even in a Girl from the Wild West (2017)
  47. Smoke and Mirrors: Comparing Smoking-Based Plant Consumption from Two 19th Century Captive House Sites (2023)
  48. Smoke and Spirit: Exploring Bodily and Sensual Concerns at Early Harvard College (2018)
  49. Smoke is in the Air: Tobacco and Traditional Plant Use in 19th Century Plantation Life (2018)
  50. The Smoke of Industry Hovering as a Blessing Over the Village: The Study of a Landscape of Control in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (2015)
  51. Smoking Hams and Pumping Hickory: The Armstrong-Rogers Site in New Castle County, Delaware (2016)
  52. Smoking Pipes, St. Tammany, the Masons, and New York City Patronage Jobs (2014)
  53. Smoky places: archaeology of smoking practices on public parks of a capital city (Santiago, Chile, South America) (2016)
  54. Smuggling and Distribution Routes of the Manila Galleon. The case of some XVI century Chinese porcelains and majolica in the Pacific coast of Mexico (2017)
  55. Snake Oil Then and Now: What Patent Medicine in 1906 San Francisco Can Teach Us About the Wellness Industry (2022)
  56. The Snowtown Project: Remembering Providence’s Past (2022)
  57. So Many Paddlewheels – So Little Time! (2019)
  58. So Many Shipwrecks, So Little Time (2020)
  59. "So, What Does That Buff Colored Paste Tell You?" The Challenges And Solutions To Finding The Early Colonial Sites In The Delaware Bay Area. (2020)
  60. Soap And Suds: Alcohol Consumption Among The Residents Of Soap Suds Row (2015)
  61. Social and Economic Contexts of the Coromandel Coast of South India in the Colonial Period and the Indian Diaspora Formation (2020)
  62. Social and Economic Responses to Sixteenth-Century Trade in North Atlantic Islands (2016)
  63. Social and Spatial Dimensions of a Pre-emancipation Village: Preliminary Analysis of Material Culture at Morgan’s Village, Nevis, West Indies (2014)
  64. Social Bioarchaeology of Childhood Applied to the Analysis of an Excavated 19th Century Mennonite Cemetery (2013)
  65. Social contract archaeology: a business case for the future (2013)
  66. Social Defense: The Construction of Late Medieval Societal and Spatial Boundaries in Newcastle upon Tyne and York (2015)
  67. Social Distancing In The Woods: Archaeological Expressions Of Isolated Winter Habitations Of Newfoundland’s Early European Fisherfolk (2021)
  68. The Social Dynamics of Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake: Inferences from Tobacco Pipe Assemblages and Their Archaeological Contexts. (2021)
  69. Social Geography of Lowcountry Landscapes (2016)
  70. The Social Identity of the Crew Aboard an 18th Century Spanish Frigate (2014)
  71. The Social Identity of the Crew Aboard an 18th Century Spanish Frigate (2014)
  72. Social Status and Inter-Household Interactions Amongst a 19th Enslaved Community (2013)
  73. Social Stratification in Bangka waters’ Lighthouses (2014)
  74. The Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of the Calusa (2019)
  75. A Socio-Economic Study of the Ceramics of 322 South Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri (2019)
  76. A Socioeconomic Interpretation of 19th Century Archaeological Ceramics found at Contemporaneous, Culturally Diverse Sites on Ballast Point in San Diego, California (2016)
  77. Socioeconomic Status of a Self-Sufficient 19th Century Homestead (2016)
  78. The Sociopolitical Landscapes of Hacienda "El Progreso", 1887-1904: Historical Ecology of the Galápagos Islands (2015)
  79. "The Soil in Florida" – Developing Archaeological Methods to Identify Black Americans in Jim Crow-era Pensacola, Florida (2020)
  80. Soil, Soot, and Slag: Using Microartifact Analysis to Understand the Continuing Impacts of Historic Industrial Activity in Detroit, MI (2019)
  81. Soiled Doves and Fighting Men: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in 19th Century Tucson, Arizona (2019)
  82. Soldier's Exemption: Post-War Domestic Consumption in Flagstaff, Arizona (2020)
  83. A Solid Foundation: Investigations of Early French Occupation in Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. (2023)
  84. Solving the Mystery of the Black’s India Pale Ale Bottle from the John Marsh House, Contra Costa County, California (2020)
  85. Solvitur Ambulando: Geophysical Surveys at Mission San Antonio de Padua, California (2018)
  86. Some Datable Artifacts from Remains of the Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh House of ca. 1650-1664 in Fort Orange (2022)
  87. "Some interest has been expressed in regard to the diet of the children": The Documentary and Archaeological Implications of Food at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls. (2018)
  88. Some thoughts on unraveling the chemical complexity of turquoise/green glass trade beads (2014)
  89. Some Very Middle Class Indians? Connections between the Croaton Indians of Hatteras Island and the wider 18th century world. (2013)
  90. “Sometimes paths last longer than roads” : William S. Burroughs for an Archaeology of Modernity (2014)
  91. Sometimes the Simplest Solutions are the Best: Reconserving the Lake Phelps Canoes (2021)
  92. Somewhere Between a Savannah River Broadspear and a Model 1855 Rifle: An Archeological Legacy and Recent Research at the Site of the Harpers Ferry Armory (2016)
  93. "Somewhere in No-Man’s Land": Army Camp Hanford and America’s Defense Program (2016)
  94. "A Son Is Always a Boy": Chinese Ideals of Male Elderhood (2022)
  95. Soothing the Self: Medicine Advertisement, Non-Performative Identity, and the Cult of Domesticity. (2019)
  96. Sorting Through the Trash of Michigan State’s Spartan City: Preliminary Perspectives on the Materiality of the late Post-war Campus (2022)
  97. Sourcing a Secret Recipe: An XRF Study of Barbadian Ceramics (2015)
  98. Sourcing the Black "Marble" Knight’s Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA (2023)
  99. The South Blairsville Industry Archaeological District: A Functional and Landscape Analysis (2018)
  100. South Carolina Archaeological Archive Flood Recovery Project (2018)