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. Toward a 3D James Fort: The Opportunities for Digital Heritage at Jamestown (2017)
  2. Toward a New Understanding of the French & Indian War: Implications of the Fort Hyndshaw Massacre (2016)
  3. Toward an Archaeology of French Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley: Chasing the Arkansas Post in the Documentary and Archaeological Records. (2020)
  4. Toward an Archaeology of Self-Liberation (2017)
  5. Toward an Archaeology of the African Diaspora in Peru: The Jesuit Wine Estates of Nasca (2014)
  6. Towards a Cumulative Practice: Reflections on the Influence of Marley R. Brown III (2015)
  7. Towards an Archaeology of Energy: The Materiality of Heat, Light, and Power in 17th and 18th century Durham, England (2014)
  8. Towards an Archaeology of the Japanese Immigration to Peru (2018)
  9. Towards Food Independence: Faunal Remains from a Post-Starving Time Well at Jamestown (2023)
  10. Towards Intercolonial Studies: Exploring 18th-century Virginians’ perceptions of the Spanish Empire (2023)
  11. Towasa Diaspora: Ignoring the European Presence as a Response to Colonization (2015)
  12. Town and Country: New Philadelphia, Illinois and Social Dynamics Over the Urban-Rural Divide (2018)
  13. Town and Gown Archaeology in Williamsburg, Virginia (2014)
  14. Town and Gown Archaeology in Williamsburg, Virginia (2014)
  15. Town and Gown: Foodways in Antebellum Chapel Hill, NC (2016)
  16. The Town of Jay, Florida: A Crossroads in History (2013)
  17. The Townhouse and London Worker: Towards an Archaeology of the London Home (2017)
  18. Toxic legacy: World War Two Shipwrecks in the Asia-Pacific Region (2021)
  19. The Toys of Main Street: Conjectural Discussions on What and Why (2019)
  20. Trace Element Analysis Of Metal Projectiles Derived From Coronado Expedition Sites: Results And Interpretations (2023)
  21. Tracing Communities and Mapping Exchange Networks of the Great Lakes in the 17th Century (2018)
  22. Tracing Connections: Seventeenth-century Derry/Londonderry in global perspective (2023)
  23. Tracing the Movement of European-introduced Foods into Cherokee Country (2022)
  24. Tracking The Shipwreck Trails Of Time (2017)
  25. "Trade & Instruments of War": the Carolina Gun and England’s Struggle for Empire on the Southeastern Frontier (1763-1781) (2020)
  26. Trade and Industry in the Urban Plains: Identifying Trends in Lincoln, Nebraska from the UNL Campus Collections (2020)
  27. Trade and Mobility in the Late Eighteenth-Century River World of the Western Great Lakes: the Case of Réaume’s Leaf River Post (2018)
  28. Trade Goods and Cultural Artifacts: The Odyssey Model (2013)
  29. Trade Winds and Rich Red Soil: Memory and Collective Heritage at Millars Settlement, Eleuthera, Bahamas (2015)
  30. The Trades in Illicit Antiquities: Theory and Complexity in Heritage Crime (2023)
  31. Trading insights: new visions of colonialism from opposite ends of the northeast fur trade (2014)
  32. Trading Tones: Exploring the Soundscape of Human Trafficking in Spanish Colonial Panama (2018)
  33. Traditional Associations?: Public History, Collaborative Practice, and Alternative Histories (2015)
  34. Traditional Cultural Property Study of Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas (2018)
  35. A Trail of Tools: An Analysis Exploring the Procurement, Use, and Repair of Agricultural Tools at George Washington's Mount Vernon (2017)
  36. Trails of ‘A‘ā: Mobility and Social Networks within the Manukā Lavascape, Hawai‘i Island (2020)
  37. Training Public Archaeologists: Shaping the Future of Archaeology (2019)
  38. A Training Site Of Sorts: Pillar Dollar Wreck Investigations in Biscayne National Park (2017)
  39. "Training to good conduct, and instructing in household labor:" Sewing at the Industrial School for Girls, Dorchester, MA (2018)
  40. Transatlantic Perspectives (2013)
  41. Transcending Dualities and Forging Relationships: An Example from Staunton, Virginia (2016)
  42. Transcending Geographic Boundaries: Maritime Archaeology Worldwide on the Museum of Underwater Archaeology (2015)
  43. Transcontinental Railroad as a Landscape not a Ribbon (2021)
  44. Transfer-Printed Aesthetics in the Hudson River Valley (2018)
  45. Transferprinted Gastroliths And Identity At Fort Vancouver’s Village (2016)
  46. "Transferring Ideal Goods of our People to New Ground" - The Colony Nueva Germania in Paraguay (2023)
  47. Transformation of Native Populations in Seventeenth Century Carolina: Exploring Stylistic Changes in Ashley Series Pottery (2013)
  48. Transformations of a man, his ship and archaeology: James Cook, the Endeavour Bark, and RIMAP (2014)
  49. Transformations of the native elite in post-medieval Ireland: an archaeological perspective (2013)
  50. Transformative Placemaking: The Intersection of Art, Archaeology, and the Community in Freedom City (2020)
  51. Transforming the NPS Digital Experience: Media Outreach to Serve Public Archaeology at Fort Vancouver (2016)
  52. Transgressions and Atonements: The Mosaic of Frontier Jewish Domestic Religious Practice in the 19th Century (2016)
  53. Transhumance to Farmstead: Landscape and the Medieval Resettlement of Dartmoor (2014)
  54. Transient Labor and the North American West (2015)
  55. Transition from a Natural to a Cultural Landscape in Quebec City : An Entomological Point of View (2013)
  56. Translating Campus Archaeology Research into Public Outreach (2020)
  57. Trash is Treasure: Understanding the Enslaved Landscape in Southern Maryland through Artifact Distribution (2018)
  58. Travel accounts, oral tradition and archaeological data: Three sources of information on XVIth C. European and Inuit encounters (2014)
  59. Travel Dust and Wanderlust: The Queer Routes of Early African American Blues Traditions (2020)
  60. Traveling in Time: Connecting the public with local history through hospitality, heritage tourism in Catoctin Furnace (2016)
  61. The Treasure of an Ottoman House: A Rare Piece of Chinese Porcelain in Ottoman Hungary (2023)
  62. Treating Material Culture Data and Biological Data Equally: An Example from the Alameda Stone Cemetery in Tucson, AZ (2018)
  63. Trenches to Rafters: The Archaeology and Architecture of Francois Valle II's Ste. Genevieve Home (2019)
  64. Trends and Perspectives: Heritage At Risk (HARC) (2019)
  65. The Trent House Personified: Using Artifact Biographies to Tell the Tale of a Storied House (2023)
  66. Trents Plantation Barbados: Some Comparisons of Data Analyzed Using DAACS and a Long Used Analysis System (2015)
  67. Tri-Closure: A Quick And Easy Way To Create A Local Coordinate System For Underwater Photogrammetric Recording (2017)
  68. The Trials of Trinité: the Discovery and Archaeological Potential of Jean Ribault’s 1565 Flagship (2020)
  69. The Triangle Trade and Early Nineteenth Century Rum Distilleries in Bristol, Rhode Island (2020)
  70. The Triangle Wrecks Survey: A Successful Collaboration between a Federal Agency and Local Dive Shop (2016)
  71. TricTrac, Pitch and Toss, and Other Games: The Contexts of Handmade Ceramic Disks in New Netherland (2022)
  72. The Trinidad and Tobago Mission 2022: A Sunken B-25 and a New Partnership between the University of Miami and DPAA (2023)
  73. Trinity Burial Ground, Kingston upon Hull: Archaeological Investigations in Association with the A63 Castle Street Improvement Scheme (2023)
  74. A Tropical Wave in the Atlantic World: The Comparative Colonial Caribbean Archaeology of Dr. Marley R. Brown III (2015)
  75. Troubadour the Search, Discovery and Legacy of a Slave Ship (2023)
  76. The Trouble in River City (It’s Not Pool!) (2016)
  77. The Trouble With The Curve: Reassessing The Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Rise Model (2018)
  78. A Troublesome Tenant in the Gore by the Road: The Cardon/Holton Farmstead Site 7NC-F-128 (2016)
  79. Trowels for Plowshares: Experimental Archaeology, Public Engagement, and 19th Century American Agricultural Practices (2018)
  80. ‘The True Spirit of Service’: Toys as Tools of Ideology at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls (2018)
  81. "The Truth in Every Myth is the Pearl in Every Oyster": Narratives of Chesapeake Bay Oystermen (2023)
  82. The Truth is Out There: The Masking and Lure of Fringe Archaeology (2016)
  83. "The Trvve Picture of One Picte": Exploring the Colonial Roots of Pictish Archaeology (2023)
  84. Tuning In To Public Archaeology (2016)
  85. Tupinambá, Dutch and Portuguese in Colonial Brazil: preliminary thoughts on the Guaibituguçu archaeological site, Alagoas (2023)
  86. Turning Inwards: Collections-Driven Research and the Vitality of the Discipline (2014)
  87. Turning the Archaeology of Colonialism on its Head (2014)
  88. The Turtlers of Early 18th Century Grand Cayman (2020)
  89. Turtles in the Tidewater: an Ecological and Social Perspective on Turtle Consumption in the Antebellum South (2016)
  90. THE TWELVE APOSTLES: CONCEPTION, OUTFITTING, AND HISTORY OF 16th-CENTURY SPANISH GALLEONS (2016)
  91. Twelve Days at Sea: Preliminary Results of the 2019 Geophysical Survey Campaign of Submerged Pre-Contact Landscapes in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (2020)
  92. Twenty Years of Navy Shipwrecks--1996 to 2016! (2016)
  93. Twice Buried at Stenton: GPR in an Urban Family Cemetery (2020)
  94. Two Atlantic Worlds Collide in Arkansas: Spanish Coins from the 1830s Mercantile District in Historic Washington, Arkansas (2014)
  95. Two British Atlantic World Port City Taverns: The Materiality of Public Space and the Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere (2019)
  96. Two Meals for Two Tables: Comparing the Diets of Free and Enslaved Washingtons (2015)
  97. Two Models for Volunteer-Driven Underwater Archaeology in Lake Erie (2019)
  98. Two TBD-1s Devastators BuNo. 0298 and BuNo 1515; Fifteen Years of In Situ Monitoring, Documentation and Planning. (2020)
  99. Two Wrecks In A Historic Careenage : The Case For Identification Of The Deadman's Island and Town Point Shipwrecks In Pensacola Bay, Florida. (2019)
  100. Two Wrecks In An Historic Careenage: The Case For Identification Of The Deadman’s Island And Town Point Shipwrecks In Pensacola Bay, Florida (2020)