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. "A Strange Sort of Warfare Underground": Mines and Countermines on the Petersburg Front, 1864 (2016)
  2. Strange Tastes and Disgusting Smells: Experiences of German Merchants and Sailors in 16th-Century Iceland (2018)
  3. Strange Utensils (2013)
  4. Strangers in the Great Bend: Settler and Native Communities in the Red River Valley of the Old Southwest at the Beginning of the 19th Century (2021)
  5. Strategic Alliances 1750-1820: Marriage and inheritance patterns among the first Spanish colonial settlers along the Rio Grande in Texas (2021)
  6. Strategic Planning for the Web: Goals, Objectives and Tactics for Communicating Heritage (2013)
  7. Strawberry (Battle) Fields and Gender: A Woman’s Cloisonné Pendant from a Bombarded Encampment of the American Civil War (2014)
  8. The Stray Finds Project - Recording Lost Artefacts from Plymouth Sound (2013)
  9. Streaking and Straight Pins: Constructing Masculinity on an Antebellum College Campus (2016)
  10. Streamlining the process: using handheld devices for in-field data collection on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. (2017)
  11. Streets of Royalty: African-American Music and Memorialization in West Baltimore (2018)
  12. ‘Stretching the Soup with a Little Water’: Improvisation at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey (2014)
  13. ‘Strewed with Wrecks’: Results of the 2017 Archaeological Survey of Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory (2018)
  14. Strike the Bell!: Creation of a Diagnostic Database of Known Early Ship's Bells (2018)
  15. "A Stronghold Of Rebellion:" Confederate Defense Of The Central Gulf Coast During The Civil War (2016)
  16. Structural Analysis of the Warwick  (2013)
  17. Structural racism and archaeological practice - the archaeology of razed African American industrial communities. (2017)
  18. Structure Documentation and Data Recovery Excavations at the Keeton Site (3PP1316), Pope County, Arkansas (2016)
  19. Structuring Colonial Entanglements on the Chesapeake Landscape: Exploring Evidence of Fortification from the Coan Hall Site (2020)
  20. The Struggle to Protect and Decolonize Mozambican Underwater Heritage of Global Interaction: Swahili, Slave Trade, and Indian Ocean (2023)
  21. Student Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools with Federal Agencies (2023)
  22. Student Voice: A Revolution Worth Listening To (2020)
  23. Studies of the Subaltern in Contemporary Archaeology: Prostitution in Saltpeter Boomtowns and Ports of Northern Chile (1880-1930) (2018)
  24. A Study of French Colonial Ceramics at the Louie Blanchette Site (23SC2010) (2014)
  25. A Study of Indigenous Daily Life Integrating Geophysical and Archaeological Methods at the San Antonio Missions (2017)
  26. The study of Modern archaeology in Metropolitan France (2014)
  27. A Study of the Effects of Two Poly-Ethylene Glycol Pretreatments in the Conservation of Waterlogged Wood (2020)
  28. Study of the tile decoration from 15th to 18th century in architectural sites in Northern Vietnam (2014)
  29. A Study of Two Limestone Roads at the Nathan Boone Homestead Site (23SC2155) (2015)
  30. Studying maps: Buchanan in colonial south India (2021)
  31. Style and Substance: Button Production, Use, and Choice at the Buffalo Forge Iron Plantation (2023)
  32. Style and Sustenance: A Comparative Investigation of Cattle Husbandry, Beef Butchery, and Gentry Cuisine in Eighteenth-Century British Colonial Virginia and Connecticut (2017)
  33. The Subculture of the U.S.Army during WWII and Its Impact on the Construction of a New Airbase in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (2013)
  34. A Subfloor Pit from Stone Slave Quarters at Belvoir, Maryland: A panoply of objects within a succession of functions (2020)
  35. Submerged Aircraft Research in Poland: Recent Case Studies from Lagoon, River, and Lake Contexts (2023)
  36. Submerged Brunswick Town: Assessing Underwater Cultural Resources at the 18th Century North Carolina Port Town (2022)
  37. Submerged but Not Forgotten: Considering Climate Change Impacts on Underwater Archaeological Heritage (2019)
  38. Submerged landscapes on the Sahul shelf: Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (2023)
  39. Submerged Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Cave Sites on the Yucatan Peninsula: Recent Advances in Virtual Access and Visual Analytics (2023)
  40. Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere? (2018)
  41. Submerged Skylines: Applications of GIS-Based Visibility Analyses in Reconstructing Submerged Cities (2018)
  42. Submerged: Underwater Archaeology in South Carolina for 8th Graders (2020)
  43. Subordinate Economies Within The Barbadian Sugar Plantation Economy (2015)
  44. Subsea Mudflows and Moving Shipwrecks: Submerged Cultural Resource Management on the Mississippi River Delta Front (2020)
  45. Subsistence and Persistence: Understanding Indigenous Foodways within Mission Santa Clara de Asìs, Alta California (2023)
  46. "Subversive Poetics": Mary Beaudry's Archaeology of Language (2022)
  47. Success Stories: the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) for Research, Education, Public Outreach, and Innovation (2016)
  48. ‘Success to America.’ The Role of British Creamware in the Production of American National Identity. (2016)
  49. Success vs. Excess: The Historical Archaeology of Rural Outliers (2019)
  50. "A Sudden Flaw of Wind" -The Politics, Prize, and Pottery of the British Sloop of War DeBraak (2018)
  51. Sulphur Mining in Northern Chile (20th Century): Ghostly Landscapes, Temporal Movement, and the Rhetoric of Nostalgia (2018)
  52. Sultan: Cleveland’s Grindstone Wreck (2013)
  53. Sultana: Greatest Maritime Tragedy in United States History: A Nation's Best Kept Secret (2015)
  54. Summer 2021 Archaeological Investigations at 19-PL-118/KIN-HA-19/C-21, Kingston, Massachusetts (2022)
  55. Summer Harvests, Winter Meals: Home Canning at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, NJ (2015)
  56. Summer on the Range: Excavations at a High Elevation Cattle Line Camp in Western Colorado (2022)
  57. Sunk – First Results of a Research Project on Tagus Mouth Early Modern Shipwrecks (2023)
  58. Sunken Aircraft Archaeology Within U.S. National Parks: Lessons Learned from the Documentation of a Submerged WWII B-29 Super Fortress (2014)
  59. Sunken Aircraft of the Battle of Midway (2017)
  60. The Sunken Military Craft Inventory: Navy Sinking Exercise (SINKEX) Vessels and the Challenge of Dynamic Research (2016)
  61. The Sunken Ships of Cartagena Project: Towards the Development of Underwater Archaeology, Research, and Capacity in Colombia (2014)
  62. Sunken US Navy Submarines: Archaeological Sites And War Graves of the World Wars (2015)
  63. "Superior to Any Other House in the South or West": The Daniel Edwards Foundry of New Orleans. (2018)
  64. Superstition, Ritual, and Religion Among Ancient and Early Modern Seafarers (2019)
  65. Supporting Community Archaeology through Spatial History (2020)
  66. Surf and Turf: Understanding Montaukett Economic Strategies through the Whaling Era (2015)
  67. Surveillance in the Wake of Rebellion in Barbados (2014)
  68. Survey says…: Using archaeological lenses and conservation assessment tools to influence curation (2019)
  69. Survival Compasses, Parachutes, LPUs, and More: Life Support as Material Evidence (2017)
  70. Survivance at the Old Leupp Boarding School Site on the Navajo Reservation, Arizona, USA (2023)
  71. Sustainability and Public Archaeology: Michigan State University's Campus Archaeology Program (2015)
  72. Sustainable Archaeology: The 2017 Estate Little Princess Archaeological Field School in St. Croix (2018)
  73. Sustainable Heritage Management Strategies at the Nate Harrison Site (2018)
  74. Sustenance & Style: A Holistic Interpretation of Archaeobotanicals & Artifacts in 19th Century Philadelphia (2020)
  75. The Suture: Medical Entanglements at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2023)
  76. The Swash Channel Wreck, Monitoring and Excavations 2007 – 2012. (2013)
  77. Sweathouses: A Social And Historical Perspective (2023)
  78. Swedish Imperialism in the North American Middle Atlantic: 1638-2013 (and counting) (2013)
  79. The Swedish Sailor’s Table (2018)
  80. Sweet Home Alabama: Evidence of an 18th Century Native American Village at the Chatsworth Plantation Site (16EBR192) in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (2018)
  81. The Sweet Spot: Cultural Identity, Sugar, and Trade Relationships in 17th-Century Dutch and British North America (2023)
  82. Swept Under the Rug: Strategic Placement of Almshouses in New York City and Philadelphia (2014)
  83. "Swinging Doors": The Allure & Artifacts of Nineteenth-Century Saloons (2018)
  84. Swinging Fowl in the Name of the Lord: A Possible Jewish Ritual Sacrifice on the Arkansas Frontier (2014)
  85. The Swiss Army Knife of the 17th and 18th Century: An Analysis of how Balandras were used in Historic Spanish Salvage Efforts (2022)
  86. Symbiosis of Fast and Slow Archaeology: A Retrospective Analysis of Historical Archaeology on the Georgia Coast (2020)
  87. Symbolism, Nationality, Identity and Gender as Interpreted from an Eighteenth Century Ring from French Colonial Context (2014)
  88. A Sympathetic Connection: The role of sympathy in an archaeology of contemporary homelessness (2017)
  89. Sympathy For The Loss of a Comrade": Black Citizenship And The 1873 Fort Stockton "Mutiny (2018)
  90. System Of Environmental Analysis (SEA): An Underwater Environmental Sensor And Its Applications (2018)
  91. Sámi animal offering rituals in Fennoscandia: Religious change and local responses to colonial contact (2017)
  92. Tackling Identity from Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives: A Case Study of the Ethnic Identity of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians (2014)
  93. Tactics and Strategies of Race and Class: Overseer and Enslaved Spatialities on Virginia Plantations. (2019)
  94. Tagus: the Ribeira das Naus (2023)
  95. Take Five: The Unexpected in Historical Archaeology (2014)
  96. "Take Heede When Ye Wash": Laundry and Slavery on a Virginia Plantation (2019)
  97. Taking Down Boundaries, or How to Build an Integrated Archaeology Program (2015)
  98. Taking it Personally: Personal Items from the Storm Wreck (2016)
  99. Taking the Plunge: Applying Terrestrial Cyber-Archaeology Practices to Underwater Cultural Heritage Research and Conservation (2014)
  100. Taking Time to Relax: Leisure Activities of Chinese Railroad Workers (2016)