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. A Tale of Many Gloucestertowns: Archaeological Clues to the Pre- and Post-Revolutionary War Landscapes at Gloucester Point (2020)
  2. A Tale of Personal Discovery: A Comparative Analysis of the Emanuel Point, Padre Island, and Santa Clara Shipwrecks (1554-1564) (2020)
  3. A Tale of Small Cows and Big Cats. Researching the Faunal Remains from the Famous Vasa, While Testing a New GIS Based System for Displaying and Analyzing Butchery Marks on Bones. (2018)
  4. A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Death and Bereavement in Late 19th Century Central Florida (2020)
  5. A Tale of Two Cemeteries: Examining Nineteenth-Century Cemetery Relocations in Roxbury, Massachusetts (2020)
  6. A Tale Of Two Ditches: Conserving Historic Features On Sapelo Island Georgia (2016)
  7. A Tale of Two Early Jails: Reconstructing the Archaeological Context at site 8ES1340 in Pensacola, Florida (2020)
  8. A Tale of Two Giants: Norman, Grecian, and the Great Lakes Steel Revolution (2020)
  9. A Tale Of Two Pandemics: Comparing Disrupted Mortuary Practices From 1918 And 2020 (2021)
  10. The Tale of Two Plantations: Uncovering 19th Century Enslaved African American Houses in Western Tennessee (2020)
  11. A Tale of Two Ranches: Owners, Workers, and the Centering of Whiteness in the Stories of California's Channel Island Ranches (2022)
  12. A Tale of Two Removals: Fort Hampton, Alabama (1810-1817) (2014)
  13. A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Collection Research and Interpretation Plan (2020)
  14. A Tale of Two Traders: Merchandise Sourcing and Comparative Analysis from Two Nineteenth-Century Fur Trading Posts in the Grand River Valley (2022)
  15. A Tale of Two Trading Posts (2014)
  16. A Tale of Two Trading Posts (2014)
  17. Talegas and Hoards: The Archaeological Signature of Contraband on a 1725 Spanish Merchant Vessel (2013)
  18. ‘The Talented Tenth’: Exploring the Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington in Annapolitan Archaeology (2014)
  19. Tales from the Archive (2020)
  20. Tales From the Foot: An Oral History Project (2019)
  21. Tales From the Front Line: Politics, Teaching, and Museum Collections (2018)
  22. Tales from Timbers: Reconstructing the History of Technological Change at the Cleary Hill Gold Mill. John Hemmeter and Paul White (2015)
  23. Tales of the Sturgeon in Philadelphia’s Culinary Past (2015)
  24. Tales out of School: the Hidden Curriculum in National Schools in the North of Ireland. (2013)
  25. Talking With Transfer-Printed Tea Cups: An Examination Of Early 19th-Century Domesticity Through Ceramic Pattern Symbolism And Vessel Forms From The Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, MA. (2021)
  26. Taming the Wild Through Enclosure: Boundaries within the Pioneer Landscape (2016)
  27. The Tanapag Coronado: A Case Study in Site Formation Processes (2016)
  28. The Tanapag Coronado: a Case Study in Site Formation Processes of Submerged Aircraft Wreck Sites (2018)
  29. The Tanapag PBM Mariner: Aircraft Identification through Site Formation Processes (2020)
  30. Tangible and Intangible Voices: Listening to the Artifacts of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade (2023)
  31. Tannic Planet: The Development of a Maritime Heritage Trail on a Blackwater River (2016)
  32. Tantaran’ny Velondriake (2020)
  33. The taphonomy of historic shipwreck sites: implications for heritage management (2014)
  34. Tar, Glue and Iron – A Close Study of the Role of the Stockholm Shipyards in Swedish State Formation - 1625-26 (2018)
  35. Task Force Dagger Foundation and ECU: Development of the Joint Recovery Team (2020)
  36. TaskForce Dagger Foundation’s Joint Recovery Team Training and Implementation (2020)
  37. "A Taste for Being Well Lodged After Their Decease:" Preliminary Thoughts on Jamaican Cemeteries (2018)
  38. A Taste for Mustard: A cache of condiment bottles from a Loyalist homestead (2014)
  39. Tastes for New and Old: Fish Consumption in the Market Street Chinatown (2016)
  40. Tastes on the "Tight Little Island": Dietary Choices in St. George's, Bermuda (2013)
  41. Tavern Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia (2018)
  42. A Tavern at Warwicktowne: Food and Function at Young's Ordinary (2022)
  43. Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks: New Technology for Heritage Conservation (2018)
  44. Teaching from the Deep (2014)
  45. Teaching Hidden Histories: A VRchaeology Experience of the Miller Grove Community (2019)
  46. Teaching With and For the Recent Past: Applying Contemporary Archaeology Pedagogically (2015)
  47. Teaching Without a Wreck: Using Museum Collections in the Classroom (2017)
  48. A Teardrop Shaped Foundation In Fairfax County, Virginia (2016)
  49. Teasing Out The Details: Re-examining A 19th-Century Boardinghouse Site In Lowell, MA (2016)
  50. Technical Considerations of the Growth and Evolution of the Spanish Colonial Irrigation System in San Antonio, Texas (2018)
  51. Techniques of Power and Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past (2014)
  52. Technological Knowledge And Migrations Of Ancestral Pueblo Communities Of Practice In The Northern Rio Grande Of New Mexico (2018)
  53. Technological Toolkit: Using XRF Analysis to better understand 19th Century Iron Making and its Implications for the Labor Force (2016)
  54. Technology and Empire: A Comparative Analysis of British and Dutch Maritime Technologies during the Napoleonic Era (2015)
  55. Technology As A Tool For Public Experience And Interpretation (2018)
  56. Technology for Underwater Heritage: Mapping World War II Sites in the Pacific (2015)
  57. The Technology to Save Sinking Ships ‘ Pumping the French Way! (2014)
  58. Telepresence-Enabled Archaeological Exploration of ex-USS Independence (CVL22) in the Gulf of the Farallones (2018)
  59. "Tell Me What You Eat and I’ll Tell You Who You Are": Food and the Challenge of Indian Identity in Late 18th and Early 19th Century California (2017)
  60. Telling Multiple Jamestown Stories: Using Technology to Engage Guests with James Fort, 1619, and Beyond (2018)
  61. Telling the African story through ‘western eyes’? (2013)
  62. The Temecula Massacre: Native American Casualties of the War between Mexico and the United States (2021)
  63. The Temple On The Hill: Reviving the Patapsco Female Institute (2022)
  64. The Temporality of the Landscape in the Port of Acapulco Through an Analysis of Chinese Porcelain Shards. (2023)
  65. "Ten Years After" The 2001 UNESCO Convention Became Law: "I'd Love To Change The World . . ." And Here's What You Can Do. (2020)
  66. Ten Years of Archaeology at the Local Level in Prince George’s County, Maryland (2016)
  67. Tennessee Face Jugs: An Evolving Tradition    (2015)
  68. Testing 17th-century naval ordnance: the Vasa Cannon Project (2018)
  69. Testing Photogrammetric Methods on Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Florida (2020)
  70. Testing Predictive GIS Models and Game Theory: A Case Study of the Simpson Lot, an Antebellum Industrial Homestead Site (2014)
  71. Testing the Waters: Results of First Maritime Archaeology Field School in Massachusetts (2016)
  72. Texan Toys: Children's Playthings as Potential Indicators of Socioeconomic Status at a Texas-Alsatian Homestead in Castroville, TX (2018)
  73. The Texas Historical Commission and Ongoing Research at Site 41MR211 (2017)
  74. Texas Roots Run East: Considering Regional Contexts In San Felipe de Austin Archeology (2021)
  75. Texas Tribal Histories Project: Collaborating with Native Voices (2020)
  76. Texas’ White Elephant Fleet (2016)
  77. The Text and the Body: The Case of the Reverend Henry G. Ludlow and the Remains of the Congregants of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church (2014)
  78. The Textile Trade with Iceland, AD 1400-1700. (2020)
  79. Textiles – Decay and preservation in burials (2017)
  80. "Tha e air a dhol don fhaochaig – He has gone to the whelk shell" – Inequality in the Land of the Gael. (2013)
  81. "That Kind of Place": Re-Illuminating Enslaved Women at Buffalo Forge Plantation, Rockbridge County, Virginia (2018)
  82. That Sherd with the Fingerprints: Altering Public Perceptions of Ceramics and Slavery in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley (2023)
  83. "That These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain," The Above-Ground Archaeology of New Jersey’s War Memorials (2020)
  84. That’s a lot of wood: Excavations of the 1755 Carlyle Warehouse in Alexandria, Virginia. (2017)
  85. That’s Probably Just a Rock, and That’s Okay: Questions from the Public (2023)
  86. Theatre Archaeology and the Shakespearean stage (2013)
  87. "Their complaint was that they did not get enough to eat": Landscape of Child Labor at the Blackfeet Boarding School, Montana (2017)
  88. The Theodore Roosevelt Boarding School: Ndee (Apache) Cultural Persistence and Survivance (2023)
  89. Theories of Place and the Archaeology of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Experiences at Stewart Indian School (2017)
  90. Theorizing Capitalism’s Cracks (2020)
  91. The Theory Of Coastal Abandonment During Times Of Warfare And Piracy Applied To The Island Of Cyprus During The Crusades (2017)
  92. "There and Back Again": The Atlantic World Concept in Historical Archaeology (2013)
  93. There And Back Again: The Ironclad Monitor's Tale (2016)
  94. There are Many Kinds of Fish in the Sea: Zooarchaeology and Ancient DNA Insights into 19th-century Chinese Diaspora Fisheries (2022)
  95. There Is A Presence In The Absence: Exploring Parallels and Discontinuities Between British Isles and West African Belief Systems In North American Folk Tradition (2022)
  96. There is No Landscape like a Commercial Landscape: An investigation into the Working-Class of Corktown, Detroit 1890-1906 (2019)
  97. There Is No Life Without Water: Irrigation in Utah's Uinta Basin (2019)
  98. There is Nothing Like Looking if You Want to Find Something: The Emerging Accessibility of Historic Documents and the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
  99. There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too: Deconstructing the Nationalist Histories of Plymouth, UK (2014)
  100. There’s a Hole in my Bucket! (But I Put it There on Purpose): Modified Can Use at Rural Woodcutting Camps in Mineral County, Nevada (2015)