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.


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  1. "There’s nothing of their house but the ruined foundation": History and Archaeology at the Manton Farm and Primus Collins House Sites (2023)
  2. Thermal Breakage in Glass Shards: Identification in the Archaeological Record of an University Trash Dump (2017)
  3. These Tangled Threads: An Analysis of the Current State of Waterlogged Textile Conservation in Nautical Archaeology (2020)
  4. They Came From The Sea: The Anthropogenic Study Of The Cuban Migrant Craft La Esperanza, The Normalization Of U.S.-Cuba Relations, And The Potential For Future Research (2016)
  5. "They Considered Themselves Free": Defining Community and Freedom at Buffalo Forge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (2020)
  6. "They Had Perfect Knowledge of…This Offensive Place": Burial Grounds and Archaeological Human Remains in Richmond’s Public Discourse (2016)
  7. They Walked and Sleep in Beauty: African Americans and the Rural Cemetery Movement in the Midwest (2023)
  8. "They were dying in such great quantity": An archaeology of human burials at Gloucester Point (2018)
  9. The Warwick 1619: Historical Background (2013)
  10. "The Thieves Who Stole 11 Mountain Howitzers … Were Tried in U.S. Court": The Story of the First Federal Cultural Resources Protection Law and the First Federal Prosecution of a Cultural Resources Crime. (2016)
  11. Thieves, Looters, and Adventurers: Assessing Representations of Archaeologists in Uncharted and Tomb Raider. (2017)
  12. The Thin Defiant Line: Archeology at the Battle for Culp's Hill (2022)
  13. Things That Go Boom: A Conservation Challenge (2023)
  14. Thinking About Urban Approaches to Interpreting Class in the 19thC: Labor, Residence and Economic Choice at Rock Hall, Lawrence, NY. (2016)
  15. Thinking Big: From New England to the Chesapeake and Beyond (2015)
  16. Thinking Inside the Box: The Use of Micro CT for Archaeological Analysis (2017)
  17. Thinking Outside the Hollinger Box: Bringing Northeast Region Archeology Collections to the Public (2016)
  18. "This gave me great influence over them": The Voice of Frederick Douglass at Wye House (2015)
  19. "This Is The Ancestral": Black Women Archaeologists and Ethics of Care (2023)
  20. "This is the Way Things are Run": Land Use on the Grand Portage Reservation During Office of Indian Affairs Occupation, 1854-1930 (2018)
  21. "This law is no good": Excavating the Appeal of Right-Wing Populism in Rural New York (2018)
  22. "This strange spirit of procrastination": Alcohol and medicine at Charles Carroll Jr.’s Homewood (2018)
  23. "This, of course, would be desirable": Nostalgia and Dispossession at the United States Bicentennial (2021)
  24. Thomas Jefferson’s Acquisition of Transfer Printed Ceramics for Poplar Forest (2016)
  25. Thomas T. Tucker: A Beached US Liberty Ship in Cape Point Nature Reserve, South Africa (2015)
  26. Those Beyond The Walls: An Archaeological Examination Of Michilimackinac’s Extramural Domestic Settlement,1760-1781. (2023)
  27. "Those Who Intend To Make Chicago Their Permanent Or Temporary Home": Chicago's Nikkei Community And Urban Landscape, 1940s - 1950s (2018)
  28. Though War, Peace, and William Peace: The Archaeological Investigation of Fort Caswell (2014)
  29. A thousand ruins: an alternative history of contemporary Spain. (2013)
  30. Threads across the Ocean: Investigating European Cloth in New France through Lead Seal Analysis (2017)
  31. Threat Assessments of Archaeological Sites at Colonial National Historical Park, James City County, Virginia (2020)
  32. The threatened cultural archive in the German North Sea - A pilot project (2013)
  33. Threats Abound: Responding to Climate Change and Planning for the Future at Jamestown Island (2020)
  34. Three Centuries at the Brumbaugh-Kendle-Grove Farmstead through Archaeology (2022)
  35. Three Decades of Identification: Advances in Civil War Bioarchaeology (2016)
  36. Three In One: New Archaeological Investigations on the Site of Jamestown's Last Three Churches (2018)
  37. Three Lives of Belair Plantation: Colonial Governor’s Retreat to Gentleman Farmer’s Racing Stable (2017)
  38. The Three Phases of Sans Souci: Geophysical Survey and Archaeological Testing at the Palace of Henry Christophe, Haiti (2016)
  39. Three Sisters (1874–1899): A Tasmanian Built, Double-Planked Ketch Wrecked in the Intertidal Zone (2023)
  40. Three Ways of Remembering World War 1: the Sledmere Memorials, Yorkshire, England (2018)
  41. Three-Dimensional Recording: Reconstruction and Artifact Interpretation (2017)
  42. Three-Dimensional Structural Recording of HMS Investigator at 74° North (2013)
  43. Three-Minute Artifact Forum - Artifacts That Enlighten: The Ordinary and the Unexpected (2019)
  44. Three-Minute Climate Stories: Sharing Place-Based Perspectives on Heritage at Risk (2021)
  45. Through a Mirror Darkly:Colonial Forts in Materiality and Memory (2023)
  46. Through the Lens: Photographic Recordation of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Excavations (2017)
  47. Through the Priest’s Ear: Examining the History and Archaeology of San Ignacio’s Jesuit Church (1610-2017) –Bogotá, Colombia (2018)
  48. Thumb Screws: Decorative Mortuary Hardware Recovered from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2023)
  49. 'Thy Turrets and thy Towers are all Gone': Medieval Legacies in a 21st-Century City (2020)
  50. Tides And Times: Highs And Lows Of The Waterfront Wharf At Brunswick Town (2016)
  51. Tides of Celadon: Glaze Developments in the Edgefield Pottery District, SC (2015)
  52. Tied to Land, Still at Sea: 19th century African American Whalers and Households in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island (2014)
  53. Ties That Bind: Analyzing West Ashcom's Involvement With Lord Baltimore's Manorial System (2022)
  54. Timber Analysis of the Warwick: Dating, Provenance and Resources (2013)
  55. Timber for Vasa (2018)
  56. A timber in the Michigan Lake: an archaeological trace of the Griffin (1679)? (2014)
  57. TIMBER! Industry, Movement, and Changing Spaces in Late 19th-Century Sapelo Sound, GA (2023)
  58. Time for a Reboot: Some Unexpected Benefits from the Covid-19 Pandemic Closure at the New York State Museum (2021)
  59. "The Time Has Come," the Walrus Said, "To Talk of Many Things: Of Shoes and Ships - and Sealing Wax - of Cabbages and Kings" and Twenty-five Years of the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project. (2017)
  60. "Time is the substance I am made of". Human Impermanence and Architectural Objects in Contemporary Antarctica (2023)
  61. Time Jumpers: Inspiring Archaeological Stewardship Through Classroom Programming (2018)
  62. Time Pieces: The Use of Historic Maps in Transportation Archaeology (2018)
  63. Time, Discipline and Punishment: Private and state capitalism in northern Sweden in the seventeenth century (2016)
  64. Time-Geography in the Texas Frontier: Exploring The Topology of Difference at Fort Davis (2017)
  65. Tipping Point (2014)
  66. Tlithlow Station: Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company and the Aftermath of the Oregon Boundary Dispute (2016)
  67. "To Advance Learning and Perpetuate it to Posterity": New Narratives from the Harvard Yard Archaeological Collections (2016)
  68. To Animate the Monster: Public Archaeology of Capitalism (2016)
  69. To be, Rather Than to Seem: Comparative Colonialism and the Idea of the Old North State. (2015)
  70. "to defend against any such weak enemies": Possessiveness and Layered Relationships at St. Mary’s Fort, Maryland (2023)
  71. "To Drain This Country": Historical Archeology And The Demands Of The War For Independence In The Route 301 Corridor (2016)
  72. To Give Chase Once Again. The Development of A National Park Service (NPS) Research Design In Search Of The Pirate-Slaver Guerrero In Biscayne National Park. (2018)
  73. " ...to have some good book alwayes in store, being in solitude the best and choicest company." The Recovery Of Book Hardware From the Site Of James Fort. (2023)
  74. To Let Sink or Swim: Evaluating Coastal Archaeological Resource Stability Through a System of Indices (2018)
  75. "To Make a Pure Resort": The Conflict Between Temperance and Profit at the Saltair Resort Under the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2022)
  76. To Monitor or Not to Monitor; an examination of the strategy to preserve and protect the submerged cultural resources at Fathom Five Nation Marine Park (2014)
  77. To Possess the Cultural Capital to Carve Dolomite Marbles and Exchange Blue Beads: Constructing Community and Creating Spaces of Multicultural Encounters on the Nineteenth Century Wisconsin Frontier (2020)
  78. To Save the Soul: Protective Marks in a Mortuary Context (2020)
  79. To Scuttle and Run: The Institute of Maritime History’s Search for Lord Dunmore’s Floating City of 1776 (2017)
  80. To the ends of the Earth: European Tablewares in El Progreso, Galápagos (1880-1904) (2017)
  81. To What End? Assessing the Impact of Public Archaeology in a Campaign Against Gentrification (2020)
  82. Tobacco Houses of the Early Colonial Chesapeake (2015)
  83. Toe the Line: An Overview of the Revised Permitting Program for Research of U.S. Navy’s Sunken and Terrestrial Military Craft (2017)
  84. Tokens of Travel: Material Culture of Transoceanic Journeys in San Francisco (2015)
  85. The Tokyo Tape Project (2018)
  86. Tom Sawyer's Wreck: Overview of the Gold Rush–Era Steamship Independence (1853) (2023)
  87. "Tombstones of the Rudest Sculpture:" Bob Schuyler, Stalwart Champion of Cemetery Studies (2017)
  88. Tomol's And "The Carrying Of Many People"; Indigenous Resilience And Resistance In The Santa Barbara Channel (2020)
  89. Tonics, Bitters, and Other Curatives: An Intersectional Archaeology of Health and Inequality in Rural Arkansas (2019)
  90. Too Many Post Holes: Analysis Of A Complex 17th-century Earthfast Structure On Middle Street In St. Mary’s City. (2020)
  91. Tool For Rapid Generation Of Ship Hull Forms Used For Comparative Performance Analysis Of Various Ship Designs (2023)
  92. Tools of Royalization: British Ceramics at a Military Outpost on Roatán Island, Honduras (2017)
  93. Tools of the trade: Shipboard crafts on the Queen Anne's Revenge (2020)
  94. "Top Secret" Maritime Archaeology: Preliminary Investigations on the San Pablo, Sunk During an OSS Operation in Pensacola, Florida in 1944 (2013)
  95. Topographies of tension: institutional remains and the politics of ruination in 20th century Greek border transformations (2014)
  96. Topographies of the slave trade along the Cacheu River, Guinea-Bissau, 16th – 19th centuries. (2023)
  97. Torcy: a slave cemetery in French Guiana (2013)
  98. Torpedoed, Salvaged, and Buried: Findings from the 2021 Investigations of the USS Housatonic Shipwreck off Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. (2022)
  99. Touching the Past: Enhancing Accessibility for Richmond’s Visually Impaired Community and Others to Virginia’s Heritage through 3-D Printing (2018)
  100. Tour de Fort: Lessons on Assessment (2018)