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 South Carolina Underwater Antiquities Act: Mandated management of submerged archaeological resources and avocational collection in the Palmetto State (2016)
  2. South Carolina-BOEM Cooperative Agreement Preliminary Results (2018)
  3. South Carolina-BOEM Cooperative Agreement Preliminary Results (2016)
  4. The South Florida Mystery Canoe (2018)
  5. "Southern archaeology" : the French départements and territories d'Outre-Mer in the Indian Ocean (2013)
  6. Southern Hospitality: An examination of plantation feasting (2014)
  7. Soviet Memorials as Dissonant Heritage in Estonia (2023)
  8. Space or Lack Thereof; an Artifact and Documentary Analysis of 16th-Century Shipboard Activity Areas and their Evolution (2023)
  9. "Space, Division, Classification": Gender, Class, and Race in the Treatment of Insanity in 19th-Century New England Lunatic Asylums (2019)
  10. Spaces and Places of Antebellum Georgia Lowcountry Landscapes: A Case Study of Wattle and Tabby Daub Slave Cabins on Sapelo Island, Georgia (2019)
  11. Spain at Mackinac? Adornment Artifacts From a Fur Trade Household (2019)
  12. Spanish and English Maritime Atlases as Sources for the Archaeology of the Americas’ Pacific Coast. (2022)
  13. Spanish and French Colonial Forts in La Florida 1562-1763 (2023)
  14. Spanish Colonial Dam & Acequia Systems in Brackenridge Park San Antonio Texas (2018)
  15. Spanish Shippers Marks on Wax, Pottery and Silver Bars. (2017)
  16. Spanish Slavers and European Interlopers on the Spanish Lake: Eye Witness Accounts from Shipwreck Survivors in the Lesser Antilles 1620-1635 (2013)
  17. Sparrowhawk (1626), The Oldest Shipwreck On Cape Cod, MA: An Analysis Of Wooden Artifacts Using X-ray Fluorescence (XRF). (2020)
  18. Spatial analyses and 3-D Interpretative modelling at Loyola Habitation (1730-1768) (2019)
  19. Spatial Analysis of Hanna’s Town: Settlement and Geophysical Frontiers (2017)
  20. Spatial Analysis of Hanna’s Town: Settlement and Geophysical Frontiers. (2016)
  21. Spatial Analysis of the Free African Community of Kingstown, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (2016)
  22. Spatial Context and Farm Types of Anne Arundel County Maryland, 1850-1880 (2016)
  23. Spatial Patterns and Activity Areas at the Harrison Site: A Case Study in Multiple Lines of Evidence and Differential Uses of Space (2020)
  24. Spatial Relationships at Ethnic Chinese Dominated Section Stations in the Western United States (2020)
  25. The Spatial Violence of Colonialism (2016)
  26. Spatiality of the Everyday: 19th Century Slave Life in Western Tennessee (2017)
  27. A Spirit of Rebellion Lives On: The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project (2014)
  28. Spirits And Spirituality: Drinking, Smoking, And Racial Uplift In 19th Century Nantucket, MA (2020)
  29. Spiritual Wayfarers and Enslaved African Muslims: New insights into Yarrow Mamout, Muslim Slaves and American Pluralism (2016)
  30. "A Splendid Location": Land Use On An Urban Block in Mobile, Alabama (2018)
  31. Split Lips and Broken Bottoms: Analysis of Glass Fragments from an Urban Context (2018)
  32. "Spoiled Submerged Sites" or "Just Another  C-Filter"?  Accounting for Recent Human Impact in the Archaeological Analysis of BISC-2 (2013)
  33. Sport Divers and Maritime Archaeology: An Instructor’s Perspective (2014)
  34. The Sporting Life: Archaeological Evidence of Pensacola’s Red Light District Customers (2015)
  35. The Spread of Cholera Throughout North America in 1832 via Inland Waterways (2019)
  36. A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Wood Analysis from the Spring Break Wreck (2019)
  37. The Squire Homestead: A Look into Early American Settlement and Trade in the Greater St. Louis Area (2019)
  38. The SS James Eagan Layne; The Liberty 70 Project, a Catalyst for Conversation in Submerged Cultural Heritage (2015)
  39. St Eustatius Jews: Reflections on Social, Economic and Physical Landscapes (2014)
  40. St. Croix Youth Archaeology Field School (2023)
  41. THE ST. DAVID’S ISLAND PROJECT: ETHNOGENESIS IN REAL TIME (2015)
  42. St. Eustatius--The Nexus for Colonial Caribbean Capitalism (2013)
  43. St. Lawrence Iroquoians as Middlemen or Observers: Review of Evidence in the Middle and Upper St. Lawrence Valley (2014)
  44. St. Patrick’s Day and Sugar Plantations:  Articulating Landscape Archaeology with Conceptions of Montserrat’s Historical Narratives and Cultural Geography (2013)
  45. The St. Paul’s Parish Parsonage: Early Colonial Life and Community Development on South Carolina’s Frontier (2022)
  46. St. Thomas / St. Anne Parish Heritage Trail: Collaboration and Partnerships In the Caribbean (2016)
  47. Stable Isotopes and Historic Period Diets at the Spanish Mission of San Juan Capistrano, Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas (2015)
  48. Stable Isotopes From The Stables: An Exploration Of Agricultural And Livestock Management Systems In 17th and 18th Century Virginia (2022)
  49. Stable Isotopic Analysis of Chinese Domestic Animal Bones from the Central Pacific Railroad Community of Terrace, Box Elder County, Utah (2020)
  50. The Stadt Huys Block Site Collection, Past, Present and Future (2016)
  51. Staging Tourism: Leisure and Consumption in Florida's Early Twentieth-Century Resorts (2018)
  52. The Stagville Plantation Stores: Shopping in the Shadow of the Big House (2016)
  53. Stagville within, beyond, and through the Digital Archaeological Archive for Comparative Slavery: Comparison -> Transition / Juxtaposition (2015)
  54. Standing Against the Tide: Preserving the Seminole History on Egmont Key (2020)
  55. Standing at the Crossroads: Toward an Intersectional Archaeology of the African Diaspora   (2013)
  56. Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act (2020)
  57. Starting Over After Being Taken Away: Enslaved Women, Forced Relocation, and Sexual Relationships in Antebellum Virginia (2017)
  58. Starting Slow: Community informed background research on Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts (2020)
  59. The State of Material Culture Training in Historical Archaeology: A Conversation on Best Practices for Teaching Students How to Identify and Analyze Material Culture (2021)
  60. The State of Research in the Underwater Archaeology of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, (FWI) (2018)
  61. State of the Art: Reconstructing paleolandscapes for maritime CRM projects (2018)
  62. The State of the Inland Sea: a primer to the submerged cultural resources of Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River and the state of studies in Great Lakes Shipbuilding (2019)
  63. The state of the Jamestown Collection: Preparing for 2019 and the future (2020)
  64. Status Quo: Military Landscapes (2017)
  65. Staying True to Our Roots… in Public: Critical Public Archaeology As Working Class Activism (2019)
  66. Steam and Speed: The Development of the First Self-Unloading Schooner-Barge, Adriatic (2014)
  67. The Steamer Columbia - A New Discovery in the Blackwater (2017)
  68. Steel and Honor: An Artifact Examination of Edward Preble's Naval Officer Sword (2020)
  69. Steel And Steam At The Entrance Of The River Tagus.A Different Reality And New Fields Of Research (2023)
  70. Steel Tracks and Copper Wire: 19th-Century Railway and Telegraphy Equipment from Minas Gerais (Brazil) (2013)
  71. Step by Step: The Curative Violence of Stockings and Shoes at the Syracuse State School (2021)
  72. A Step Toward Exhibition: Digital Reconstruction of Monitor Spaces (2018)
  73. Stephen Potter's Vision for Potomac Valley Archaeology (2016)
  74. "Stepping Over the Line": Hyper-Masculinity, Institutionalized Violence, and the Archaeology of the U.S. Border Patrol (2015)
  75. A ‘Stepping Stone’ of Spanish Colonialism in the Western Pacific: The Mariana Islands (2014)
  76. Stereo Photogrammetry for Scaling Underwater Models (2022)
  77. Stew Stoves in the British Atlantic: An Example from Monticello (2021)
  78. Still Boundary Street: Marion Square as Contested Ground in Charleston, South Carolina (2021)
  79. Stinking foreshore to tree lined avenue: Investigating the riverine lives impacted by the construction of the Thames Embankments in Victorian London. (2013)
  80. Stinking Foreshore To Tree-lined Avenue: Rethinking The Cleansing Of The Sewage Filled River Thames of Mid Nineteenth Century London (2023)
  81. Stirring the Ashes: archaeologies of ruination on the site of Old Panama (2013)
  82. Stitched in Time: Mary Beaudry’s influence on the study of small finds (2022)
  83. Stolen Treasure, Exotic Animals, and Stray Bullets – A Pathway to a Career in Archaeology?!?! (2020)
  84. Stone Walls for Portuguese Pests: Swahili Landscape Responses to European Incursion on Zanzibar Island, Tanzania (2020)
  85. The Stoneware from the Baja California Manila Galleon (2017)
  86. Stopping A Rat-Hole: The Charleston Harbor Stone Fleets, 1861 & 1862. (2015)
  87. The storehouse of the Loyola habitation site in French Guiana (ca. 1725-1768) (2014)
  88. Stories Bricks Can Tell: Elizabethan texts and 3-D Scanning Inform Archaeological Interpretation of Roanoke Colony Metallurgical Research (2014)
  89. Stories from the Kitchen: Ceramic Analysis of the Belvoir Slave Quarter (2020)
  90. Stories That Can Heal Us: Afrodecolonial Perspectives and Community-based Approaches to Archaeology in French Guiana (2020)
  91. Stories Written in Stone (2020)
  92. Story Maps, A New Public Archaeology Tool: Mill Springs Battlefield Case Study (2018)
  93. Story Maps: Utilizing the NHHC Arsenal to Tell the Navy's Story (2018)
  94. Story of an unusually preserved early modern Vicar in Finnish Lapland (2017)
  95. "A stout…sailor negro." Agency, Self-Determination, and Material Gain: Black Mariners in the Caribbean Colonial Project. (2022)
  96. "A Stove Boat": Archaeological and Historical Investigation of E. & E. K. Cook Whaling Company and Its Reaction to a Dimming Industry (2022)
  97. Straddling the Shoreline: Parks Canada’s Near-shore Maritime Archaeological Inventories (2014)
  98. Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Understanding Public Archaeology from the Public (2018)
  99. A Strange and Continuing Journey: The Evolution of a Record of Antiquity to a Holistic Public Interpretation of the Historic Environment Facilitated by Technology (2013)
  100. Strange Cousins from the West: Colonial Legacies within Historical Archaeology (2014)