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. TxDOT: Revealing African American History in the State of Texas (2017)
  2. Typologies of Consumption: Examining consumer behaviour through an analysis of the inherent qualities of material culture (2013)
  3. The U.S. Naval Brig Somers: A Mexican War Shipwreck of 1846 (2016)
  4. The U.S. Route 301 Archaeology Program in Delaware: Excavations, Historic Contexts, and Syntheses (2016)
  5. UAV LiDAR Survey at La Soye, Dominica (2023)
  6. Ugly Duckling and Work Horse: A Mid-19th Century Lighter from San Francisco Bay’s Yerba Buena Cove and Its Scale Model (2015)
  7. Un Canari dans la Cuisine: What Ceramic Cookware Shows about Enslaved Cooks in Colonial Guadeloupe, French West Indies (2014)
  8. Un lot de céramiques du milieu du XVIIe siècle à Toulouse (France) (2014)
  9. Un travail de longue haleine: Vingt ans de préservation des vestiges du Elizabeth and Mary (2014)
  10. The Un-Internable; The Enduring Material Legacies of the Domoto Family (2014)
  11. The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Archaeological Research: Examples from the Comparative Study of New World English Colonial Capitals (2014)
  12. The Uncertainty of Sailing: "Hidden" Coin Hoards from Late Imperial Roman Shipwrecks (2020)
  13. "Unclaimed": The Making of (Un)grievable Lives in the Huntington Archive (2023)
  14. Uncovering an Unusual Feature: Contextualizing Coan Hall’s Site 3 (2022)
  15. Uncovering and Interpreting Plantation Life through Long-Term Collaborative Efforts at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2020)
  16. Uncovering and Interpreting the Acequia Madre at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2020)
  17. Uncovering Evidence of Consumer Constraint in Archaeological Assemblages Using r-Matrices (2017)
  18. Uncovering German Identity on the Colonial Virginia Frontier (2017)
  19. Uncovering Mining Company Habitation Sites Through Public Archaeology (2022)
  20. Uncovering the "Lost Land": The Archaeology of Conspiracism and New Age Spirituality in Southern British Columbia (2023)
  21. Uncovering the Covered Path: An Explanation of the Excavations of the Servant’s Pathway and Cryptoporticus at The Woodlands, West Philadelphia, PA. (2022)
  22. Uncovering the Southern Pacific Railroad: 2011 Excavations at Los Angeles State Historic Park of the River Station in Los Angeles, California (2014)
  23. Under the Concretion: Examining New Evidence for H.L. Hunley’s Attack on USS Housatonic (2018)
  24. Under the Corset: Health, Hygiene, and Maternity in Boston’s North End (2014)
  25. Underground Then as Now: Seeking Traces of the Underground Railroad in the Mount Gilead AME Church Cemetery (2015)
  26. Underpinning a Plantation: A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at Mount Vernon Plantation (2016)
  27. Understanding 19th Century Indigenous River-Portage Travel in Maine and New Brunswick Through Network Analysis (2017)
  28. Understanding a Post-Emancipation Haiti: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 19th Century Plant Remains at the Palace of Sans-Souci (2023)
  29. Understanding African American Archaeology and Archaeological Education in Washington, DC through the Influences of Booker T. Washington (2014)
  30. Understanding And Interpreting Indigenous Places And Landscapes (2016)
  31. Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2023)
  32. Understanding Home-Making and Urban Landscape Creation in Montgomery, Alabama (2020)
  33. Understanding Maritime Cultural Resources Within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (2020)
  34. Understanding Maritime Heritage Through The Iterative Use Of Geophysics and Diving (2018)
  35. Understanding Past and Present Cochineal Production in the Canary Islands (2014)
  36. Understanding Public Perceptions Of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2014)
  37. Understanding the African-Caribbean Landscape of the Wallblake Estate, Anguilla. (2018)
  38. Understanding the Battlefield Terrain: Components of the Battlefield Archeological Landscape (2016)
  39. Understanding the Culture of Teaching and Learning: The Role Evaluation Played in Developing a Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter Case Study (2018)
  40. Understanding the Expressions of "UnFreedom" at the Montpelier Plantation’s Home Farm (2023)
  41. Understanding the Florence Stockade Guard Camp (2023)
  42. Understanding the Irish Famine Using Deep Neural Networks and Protolanguage (2017)
  43. Understanding The Material And Spatial Strategies Of Border Crossers Through Water Bottles And Beverage Containers (2015)
  44. Understanding the Materials and Methods Used in the Construction of the 1617 Church at Jamestown, Virginia (2020)
  45. Understanding the Placement of LA 20,000, a Spanish Colonial Settlement Located in New Mexico (2015)
  46. Understanding Variation in Utilitarian Ceramic Assemblages of the Chesapeake: The Impacts of Local Production (2013)
  47. Understanding Your Neighbor: An Analysis of Mixed-Use Immigrant Households in Nineteenth Century Port Richmond (2020)
  48. The Underwater Archaeology of Red Bay, Labrador: A Large-Scale Project Conducted in Sub-Arctic Waters (2014)
  49. Underwater 3D Imaging with Structured Light: Implications for Ethics and Economics (2015)
  50. Underwater and Intertidal Archaeology of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (France) (2020)
  51. Underwater Archaeological And Forensic Investigations Carried Out At Großer Glasowsee, Brandenburg/Germany (2023)
  52. Underwater Archaeological Investigations of a 16th Century Shipwreck in the Dominican Republic (2023)
  53. Underwater Archaeological Parks in Greece: The Case Studies of Methoni Bay-Sapientza Island and the Northern Sporades – Moving From A Culture of Prohibition Towards a Culture of Engagement (2013)
  54. Underwater Archaeology in Cuba: a Critical Review (2017)
  55. Underwater Archaeology Skills, Training, and Opportunities in U.S. Colleges: The 2017 ACUA University Benchmarking Survey (2018)
  56. Underwater Archaeology Through the Ages (2019)
  57. Underwater Cultural Heritage Law Study (2014)
  58. Underwater Cultural Heritage Law: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2016)
  59. Underwater Cultural Heritage sites on the way to be listed as World Heritage: To ratify the 2001 Convention or not? (2014)
  60. Underwater cultural heritage survey in Lagos Bay, Portugal (2014)
  61. Underwater Cultural Heritage Survey in the Parishes of Cascais and Oeiras, Portugal (2014)
  62. Underwater Cultural Heritage Training Programs Aimed at Increasing Professional Capacity: the UNESCO Foundation and Advanced courses Held Between 2009 and 2012 in Thailand for the Asia - Pacific Region (2013)
  63. Underwater Heritage Conservation and Climate Change in Canada (2023)
  64. Underwater Historic Preservation for Sport Divers: Florida’s Training Courses for Divers and Diving Leadership (2015)
  65. Underwater Imaging of a 17th-Century Mill Pond: Innovative Canoe Surveys Utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar (2022)
  66. Underwater in the High Desert: Exploring Site Presence and Preservation on Drowned and Buried Lake Features (2018)
  67. Underwater Mobile: An Investigation of Three Civil War-Era Ironclads (2022)
  68. Underwater Survey Methods in Low to Zero Visibility (2020)
  69. Underwater Survey of the Historic Anchorage for Portsmouth, Dominica (2015)
  70. Underworld Archaeology: Exploring a Rumored Detroit Speakeasy (2014)
  71. Under­standing Rural and Urban Privy Vaults: An Overview of their Utilization and Morphological Transformation Through Time. (2016)
  72. The Undine, A Tea Clipper in the Savannah River (2016)
  73. Unearthing Complex Urban Landscapes in Colonial Australia: The Parramatta Light Rail Project (2023)
  74. Unearthing Narratives from an Appalachian Hollow: The Benefits of Environmental Mitigation Banking in Cultural Resource Management (2016)
  75. Unearthing Sandpoint’s Chinatown: the Archaeology of Sandpoint, Idaho’s Overseas Chinese (2015)
  76. Unearthing Scandinavia’s Colonial Past (2016)
  77. Unearthing Their Lives: Documenting the Evolution of African American Life at Clover Bottom and Beyond (2016)
  78. Unethical Pasts, Uncertain Presents, and Potential Futures: The Evolution of Archaeological Representation in Video Games (2017)
  79. Uneven Landscapes, Uneven Histories: Maroons in the American Historical Narrative (2017)
  80. Unexpected Discovery: An 18th-Century Cannon Cluster Site in the Savannah River (2023)
  81. Unexpected Results for X-Ray Fluorescence Applications in Zooarchaeological Research (2014)
  82. An Unexpected Spark: The Seaport Shipwreck Shines a Light on Seaport History (2020)
  83. "Unidentified Planes Sighted": The Application of KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis to Aerial Combat (2018)
  84. Uniform Buttons from the Site of CSS Georgia (2017)
  85. Unintended Consequences of Digitalization in Archaeology: A Cautionary Tale (2018)
  86. Union Occupation of the Frazer Farmstead (15Hr42) during the American Civil War (2014)
  87. The Unique Architecture of the Quarters for Enslaved African Americans at Belvoir (2020)
  88. Unity in Diversity?: A Synthetic Approach to 21st-Century Historical Archaeology (2019)
  89. The University of West Florida: 2019 Archaeological Field Schools (2020)
  90. UNL Campus Archaeology: Consumption Patterns in an Early Lincoln Neighborhood (2019)
  91. UNL Campus Archaeology: Student-led Research and Public Engagement (2019)
  92. Unloading History: Schooner-Barges, Self-Unloaders, and the Development of a Modern Maritime Landscape (2015)
  93. Unloading History: Self-Unloaders and the Evolution of Maritime Industrial Landscapes in the Great Lakes (2020)
  94. Unlocking The Potential Of Ceramic Residue Analysis To Explore Islamic Cuisine In Medieval Spain (2023)
  95. Unmasking Joppa Town: Attempting to locate a colonial port town near Baltimore (2021)
  96. Unnoticed All His Worth, a Dog Burial at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
  97. ‘Unraveling the Mystery of ‘Building X,’ George Washington’s Alleged Birthplace’ (2014)
  98. Unraveling the Use of Yards: Synthesizing Data from Monticello’s North and South Yard Excavations (2016)
  99. Unroofed, Uprooted, and Unapologetic: Homelessness in Washington D.C. from 1890-1930 (2018)
  100. Unruly Bodies, Holistic Healing: Balancing the Understanding of the Health and Well-being of the Enslaved at James Madison’s Montpelier (2021)