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. Assessing and Communicating Natural Disaster Threats with Digital Technologies (2023)
  2. Assessing Environmental Impacts on Shipwreck Sites: Results & Lessons Learned from the 2009-2012 Gulf of Mexico Shipwreck Study (2013)
  3. Assessing Healthcare amid World War II Incarceration (2019)
  4. Assessing Local Variability and Storm Impacts in Coastal Paleoenvironment Models (2023)
  5. Assessing Northwest Florida’s At-Risk Maritime Cultural Heritage Resources (2023)
  6. Assessing Recently Discovered Shipwrecks on Lake Winnipesaukee (2020)
  7. Assessing the Damage and Remaining Archeological Potential of Commercially Salvaged Sites Mozambique Island: the case of São Sebastião fortress wrecks. (2017)
  8. Assessing the Long Term Stability of Underwater Archaeological Conservation Techniques (2014)
  9. Assessing the Remains of the Crosswicks Creek Revolutionary War-Era Shipwrecks (2022)
  10. Assessing the Value and Potential of Labor Archaeology: A Description of the Labor Archaeology of the Industrial Era National Historic Landmark Theme Study (2015)
  11. An Assessment of an early 19th century AD Ceramic Assemblage from Mozambique Island (2023)
  12. Assigning Site Function: An Archaeological Investigation of the Fickling Settlement at Dixie Plantation in Hollywood, SC (2014)
  13. At Home in the City: reflections on theoretical and methodological approaches to contemporary homeless heritage (2016)
  14. At Land’s End: Recovering wharf builders in the late 18th and early 19th-century Chesapeake (2023)
  15. "At Rest," the Pima Lodge 10, Improved Order of Red Men Cemetery Plot in Tucson, Arizona. (2016)
  16. At Risk in Delaware: Nature and Culture in Conflict (2019)
  17. At the Crossroads of Consumption: 19th Century Slave Life in Western Tennessee (2015)
  18. At the Crossroads: Intersections of Colonization (2018)
  19. At the limits of the colonial world: a brief analysis of missionary springs and water sources (2014)
  20. At the Margins of the Plantation: An Archaeology of the ‘Poor Whites’ of Barbados (2014)
  21. At the Precipice of Change: 50 years of Underwater Resource Management at the Texas Historical Commission (2022)
  22. "At this point there was terrible firing, and half of the Englishmen...were slain": The Rearguard Action at the Battle of Brandywine, 11 September 1777 - A comparative dialogic of Captain Ewald's battlefield experience as a function of terrain analysis in battlefield study bridging the semantic and the semiotic of a battlespace. (2016)
  23. "Athens of the Ozarks": The Archaeology of Cane Hill College, Arkansas's First University (2019)
  24. Atlanta's Legacy: The MARTA Collection (2018)
  25. Atlantic Traverses, Contrastive Illuminations (2015)
  26. Atomic Craters and Bedforms in Bikini: Detailed Geomorphic Signatures of the Seabed (2020)
  27. Attempting to Reconstruct a French Colonial Settlement on the Alabama Frontier: Geophysical Investigations at Fort Toulouse (2014)
  28. Augmented, Hyper-mediated and IRL (2018)
  29. The Aura of Things: Locating Authenticity and the Power of Objects (2016)
  30. The Australian Historic Shipwreck Preservation Project: in-situ preservation techniques for wooden shipwrecks (2015)
  31. Authenticity—Engaging Your Audiences with Real Experiences: Life Inside The Fishbowl And Other Tales from The North Carolina Maritime Museums’ Queen Anne’s Revenge Demonstration Lab (2020)
  32. Aviators Down! Tuskegee Airmen in Michigan (2020)
  33. Avocational Diver Based Photogrammetry of Historic Shipwrecks (2021)
  34. "The Awakening Came with the Railroad": The history and archaeology of Southern Oregon’s Chinese Railroad Workers (2018)
  35. B-24 Liberator Aircraft: Survey Results and Partnerships for Upcoming Recovery Project (2017)
  36. Back in Black Bottom:  The Changing Form of African American Burial Practices in a North Carolina Cemetery (2013)
  37. Background For Luna: Archaeology At The University Of West Florida (2017)
  38. The Backyard Shipwreck: The 2017 Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Field School Exploration Of A Shipwreck in Basin Harbor (2018)
  39. Bajan Metallurgy: An Archival Exploration Of Local Blacksmithing, 1600-1800s (2023)
  40. Bajo Hornos Reef, Veracruz: a depositional trap for ships and related cultural material (2013)
  41. Balancing Acts: Public Access and Archaeology in the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District (2015)
  42. Balancing the Blessing and Burden of St. Augustine’s Local Archaeological Preservation Ordinance during a Global Pandemic (2021)
  43. Balancing with Guns: Establishing an Integrated Conservation Priority for Artillery from Site 31CR314, Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (2016)
  44. Ballast or Just Another Rock? Using XRF to Source Basalt Cobbles from Bridgetown, Antigua (2019)
  45. Balls, Cocks, and Coquettes: The Dissonance of Washington’s Youth (2018)
  46. Bang Bang! Cannons, Carronades, and the Gun Carriage from the Storm Wreck (2016)
  47. The Barber Wheatfield Saratoga National Historical Park: Landscape of War and Discovery (2020)
  48. Bark in the Fosse?  The Implications of Birch Bark Remains at an 18th Century Fort Site.  (2013)
  49. The Barnwell Tabby: Rewriting the Historical Narrative of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA (2023)
  50. The Barque South Australian: Discovery and Documentation of South Australia’s Oldest Known Shipwreck (2020)
  51. Barriers to Access, or the Ways Racism Continues (2015)
  52. A Bartmann, Bellarmine, Grey Beard or D’Avla jug? The English and their relationship with the Frechen stoneware jug (2023)
  53. Basin Harbor Wreck Field School 2018 (2019)
  54. Basques and Iroquoians in the St. Lawrence Basin: recent documentary data (2014)
  55. The Basques in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1530-1760: An archaeological overview (2014)
  56. The Bathtub in the Garden: The Challenge Identifying Enslaved African Muslims in an Urban Context (2023)
  57. Bathymetric History of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck Area (2021)
  58. The Battle for HMAS Perth: Saving a Wrecked Second World War Cruiser from Illegal Salvage (2020)
  59. Battle for the Castle: A Post-Medieval Approach to Castle Studies (2013)
  60. The Battle of Caulk’s Field, Kent County, Maryland (2014)
  61. The Battle of KS-520: Results from a survey of a WWII battlefield off North Carolina's coast. (2018)
  62. The Battle of La Hougue, 1692: A portrait of the early French Navy of Colbert (2019)
  63. Battle of Midway: 2017's Exploration for Sunken Aircraft (2018)
  64. The Battle of the Atlantic, Torpedo Junction, and the Archaeological Record: The Battle of the Atlantic Research and Expedition Group’s Campaign 2021 (2017)
  65. Battle of the Gulf: Archaeological Investigations in the other American Theater of World War II U-boat Operations (2015)
  66. Battle of the Wabash 1791 - Using Archaeological results to support GIS Data Modeling and further Historical Research (2014)
  67. The Battle of the Wabash and The Battle of Fort Recovery: GIS Data Modeling and Landscape Analysis (2016)
  68. The Battle of the Wabash and The Battle of Fort Recovery: Public Interpretation and Education (2017)
  69. The Battle of Turners Falls: Historical Trauma and the Legacy of King Philip’s War (1675-1677) (2020)
  70. Battlefield Topography: An analysis of Lt. General Ewald’s first hand account of his observations of the action on Washington’s right flank at the Battle of Brandywine - An ethnographic view of command decision on an eighteenth century battlefield (2014)
  71. The Battlefields Are the Only Thing We Have: Archaeology, Race, and Thanatourism in the Trans-Mississippi South (2017)
  72. Battlespace: Battlefield Archaeological Applications of Modern Strategic Training Models (2016)
  73. Battling the Climate Crisis: Submerged Cultural Resource Monitoring with Women Veteran Citizen Scientists (2023)
  74. Baudrillard in Castroville, Texas: Traces of Contemporary America in the Biry/Tschirhart Families’ Home (2017)
  75. The Bay of Storms and Tavern of the Seas: Risk and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Harbour at Cape Town (2015)
  76. Be Polite, Be Professional, But Have A Plan To Not Kill Every Shipwreck You Meet: Fusing Traditional Methods, and Cutting-Edge Geospatial Modeling to Adaptively Manage a Maritime Cultural Landscape Under Siege. (2018)
  77. Beached Lives in The Recife Port, Brazil: First Insights in Diets and Mobility of the People from Pilar Cemetery, 16th to the 18th centuries. (2023)
  78. Beached: A Survey of Scientific Diving’s Response to COVID-19 (2021)
  79. Bead Biographies: Exploring the Movement of Glass Beads in Colonial California (2018)
  80. Bead trade in the latter Atlantic world: A case study of 19th century sites in The Gambia, West Africa (2015)
  81. Beads of Bondage: Global Displacement and Cultural Connections in Western Tennessee (2021)
  82. Beads, Burials, and African Diaspora Archaeology: Documenting a Pattern of Black and White Bead Use within African-American Mortuary Contexts (2018)
  83. Bear’s Oil, Hair Dye, and Chemicals: Bottles from a Civil War Photograph Gallery, Camp Nelson, KY (2019)
  84. Beating the Bounds (2013)
  85. Beautifying the Bleak: Ornamental Landscaping at German POW Camp D-D, Fort Campbell, KY (2022)
  86. The Beauty of Artifacts: A Study of Gendered Artifacts on a Student Led Campus Excavation (2015)
  87. Becoming Brooklyn (2014)
  88. Becoming Historic? Reassessing the Significance of Mid-Twentieth Century Debris in Nineteenth Century Cellars (2020)
  89. Becoming Jack Tar: The Vessel as a Center for the Construction of Identity (2020)
  90. Becoming the ‘other’?: Exploring mimetic practice in the Ulster Plantation (2013)
  91. Becoming Urban – Emerging Urban Food Culture in Early Modern Tornio, Northern Finland (2013)
  92. Bed Load: An Archaeological Investigation of the Sediment Matrix at the H.L. Hunley Site (2016)
  93. Bed, Breakfast, and Alcohol: An examination of the Pend d’Oreille Hotel in Sandpoint, Idaho (2016)
  94. Beech Grove Soldiers Said They Were "Living Fat," And Archaeological Evidence Elaborates (2018)
  95. Beer Bottles and Helmet Plumes: Military Consumerism at Fort Davis, Texas (2020)
  96. Beer Bottles, Beer Cans, and Plastic: Digging into the Modern Archaeology of St. Croix (2022)
  97. The Beeswax Wreck Project: The First 10 Years. (2017)
  98. Before the Emergence of the Modern World (2018)
  99. Before the Gold Standard: Alternative Currencies in West Africa (2023)
  100. Before The War: A Japanese Family in Downtown San Luis Obispo, California (2018)