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. Untangling a "Jesuit" Ring from Virginia’s Coan Hall (2021)
  2. "…The untarnished honor of our ancestors…": Transforming Landscape and Memory at James Monroe’s Highland (2021)
  3. Unusual Can Types from the Cortez Mining District, Nevada (2018)
  4. "Unwanted Guests": Evidence of Parasitic Infections in Archaeological Mortuary Contexts (2017)
  5. Up and Down the Mountain: Exploring differential access within Monticello’s enslaved community (2018)
  6. Up Close and Personal: feeling the past at urban historical archaeological sites (2014)
  7. Up Close and Personal: Objects as Expressions of Identity at the Abiel Smith School (2018)
  8. "Up Pops The Monitor": The Battle Of Hampton Roads In Popular Culture (2017)
  9. An Update from southern Iroquoia (2014)
  10. An Update from southern Iroquoia (2014)
  11. Update to Management of Upper Shipwreck Sites Along FKNMS Shipwreck Trail (2022)
  12. Updated Archaeological Documentation of the Shipwreck Galleon Santíssimo Sacramento (1668) according to the interpretation of the Shipwreck Site Formation Process. (2023)
  13. Updated Findings on Mary Washington’s Repaired Ceramics: Results of Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Experimental Archaeology (2014)
  14. Updates and Progress of the Ongoing Public Oriented Cultural Resource Monitoring Program (2017)
  15. Updates on the Maritime Archaeology of the 1559 Emanuel Point Shipwrecks: Ongoing Investigations of Vessels from Luna’s 1559 Fleet (2020)
  16. Updates on the Ongoing Emanuel Point Shipwreck Investigations (2023)
  17. Updating the Outdated for Understanding: Creating 3D models for the Smithsonian Chebacco boats. (2020)
  18. Upland Box Tombs: Southern Variants on a Popular Nineteenth Century Grave Cover (2016)
  19. Urban Archaeological Landscapes in Laranjeiras, Sergipe State, Brazil (2014)
  20. Urban Archaeology Along St. Augustine’s Shorelines: Past and Future Challenges (2020)
  21. Urban Archaeology and Historical Archaeology in the cities, a controversy still present in Latin America (2014)
  22. Urban Archaeology and Historical Archaeology in the cities, a controversy still present in Latin America (2014)
  23. Urban Archaeology in the City of the Saints and the Growth of a Real Frontier City (2015)
  24. Urban Archaeology, Preservation, and Collaboration on the Minneapolis Riverfront (2020)
  25. The Urban Archeology Corps: A partnership between Groundwork Anacostia and the National Park Service (2013)
  26. Urban Casualties: Work-Related Injuries and Healing among Irish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century New York City (2013)
  27. An Urban Context for the Study of Colonialism: Québec City (2020)
  28. Urban development and transformation on Amsterdam’s waterfront, 1590-1900 (2014)
  29. Urban Displacement in Detroit and the Erasure of African American Communities (2019)
  30. Urban Life Through the Lens of Glass: A Brief Analysis of Glass Tableware and Flaked Objects from the 19th Century San Jose Market Street Chinatown, California (2015)
  31. Urban Livestock in New Orleans: The Zooarchaeology of the French Quarter and Treme (2018)
  32. Urban material culture in Copenhagen in the post medieval period (2013)
  33. US 301 Project Archaeology and Historic Context Development in Delaware (2016)
  34. US Route 301 Predictive Modeling (2016)
  35. Usable Aid: Refugee Resettlement in Post-Partition Delhi (2020)
  36. USACE National Regionalization Effort: Recovering the Bygone Collections (2022)
  37. USCS Paddle Steamer Robert J. Walker, 1847-1860: Historical and Archaeological Research, Diver and Fisher Knowledge, and the Remote Sensing Search. (2016)
  38. Use of Animals at the Laurens North Site, the Location of Fort de Chartres III in the Illinois Country (2014)
  39. Use Of Electronic Diver Positioning In A Challenging Marine Archaeological Environment (2016)
  40. The use of photography to contextualize archaeological finds from the Holocaust (2016)
  41. The Use of Place to Find a Person: A Hybrid Microhistory of Salubria Plantation, Prince George’s County, Maryland (18PR692) (2016)
  42. The Use of Tobacco Pipes in Identifying and Separating Contexts on Smuttynose Island, Maine (2014)
  43. The Use of X-Ray Fluorescence to Determine the Composition of American Glassware Artifacts: Analytical Methods and Chronological Insights (2016)
  44. Useful Materials: a study of 17th century glass from Plymouth Colony using pXRF analysis (2020)
  45. ‘Useful Ornaments to His Cabinet’: An Analysis of Anatomical Study and Display in Colonial Williamsburg (2014)
  46. Using a Landscape Approach: Case Studies in Section 110 Compliance in Military Installations. (2018)
  47. Using Archaeology And Digital Tools To Understand A Crucial Montreal Site In Canadian Political History (2020)
  48. Using Archaeology to Understand Strategies of Racial Uplift, Past, Present, and Future: A Case Study from Annapolis, Maryland (2017)
  49. Using Assimilationist Tools to Refashion Cultural Landscapes: Allotment on the Grand Ronde Reservation (2018)
  50. Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Locating and Surveying Battle of the Atlantic Shipwrecks off the Coast of North Carolina (2015)
  51. Using Available Archaeological Insights into a Maritime Landscape: Can We Learn From Beads and Porcelain on the Beaches of Mozambique Island—Even When these Have Been Collected for Commercial Purposes? (2017)
  52. Using Collections for Trans-Atlantic Studies: A Case Study in the Spanish Atlantic (2015)
  53. Using Collector for ArcGIS for Cultural Resource Data Collection (2016)
  54. Using DAACS to Explore Embodied Identities: Potential Approaches (2015)
  55. Using Digital Mapping Techniques to Rapidly Document Vulnerable Historical Landscapes in New Orleans, Louisiana (2018)
  56. Using Diversity in Native American Pottery Assemblages to Document Population Movements in the early Carolina Indian Trade: A Preliminary View from Charleston (2014)
  57. Using Electrolytic Cleaning to Assess Iron Artifacts from Two Light Industrial Enterprises in Findlay, OH. (2022)
  58. Using Formation Process Models Of Educational Institutions At Lake Valley Mining District, New Mexico To Create Public Archaeology Progams (2016)
  59. Using Geochemistry To Differentiate Copper On The Spanish Colonial Frontier (2020)
  60. Using Geophysical Survey to Search for Burials at the St. Croix Leper Hospital (2022)
  61. Using GIS and Lidar to Re-imagine Historic Immigrant Chinese Placer Mining Landscapes (2016)
  62. Using GIS and underwater sampling in the Armação de Pêra bay, Portugal (2013)
  63. Using GIS for Public Outreach: Making Archaeological Data Accessible to Students, Stakeholders, and the General Public (2020)
  64.   Using GIS to Critique Federal Agricultural Policy of the 1930s on the Hector Backbone (2013)
  65. Using Historic Archaeology To Uncover Previously Ignored Collections (2016)
  66. Using Historical Photography to Rediscover the Farallon Wreck Site, Iliamna Bay, Alaska (2014)
  67. Using Household Accounts As Evidence of Food Consumption: Perspectives From Early Modern Ireland (2023)
  68. Using LiDAR to Reconstruct 19th-c. Plantation Landscapes in French Guiana (2022)
  69. Using Material Culture to Understand Freed African-American Lifeways in Early 19th Century Borderland Communities of Indiana and Illinois (2019)
  70. Using Metallurgical Analysis Of Funerary Hardware To Inform On Production Techniques (2023)
  71. Using Mobile Sonar and 3D Animated Web Modeling for Public Outreach and Management of Historic Shipwrecks in Lake Michigan (2016)
  72. Using Multidisciplinary Methods to Trace the "Enslavement Percurso" from Interior to the Coast in Mozambique: Insights from Two Sites-an Aringa in Tete and a Detainment Location on the Coast in Inhambane. (2023)
  73. Using National Historic Preservation Act/National Register of Historic Places Guidelines to Develop a Maritime Cultural Landscape Schema in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (2016)
  74. Using Photogrammetric Scanning to Account for Vertical Control in Underwater Excavations (2017)
  75. Using Photogrammetry for Assessment and Monitoring of Site Formation Processes Acting on Vessels from the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet in the Florida Keys (2020)
  76. Using Quantitative Analysis of Historical Records to Understand Landscapes and Predict Possible Locations of Shipwreck Remains in the Virgin Islands (2021)
  77. Using Scientific Diving as a Tool to Tell the Story of Human History: Bringing the São José Paquete de Africa Into Memory. (2016)
  78. Using the Products of Yesterday's Stewardship to Tackle Today's Questions in Historical Archaeology: Insights from the River Basin Surveys Collections (2016)
  79. Using the Underwater Cultural Heritage to Understand Coastal Change (2023)
  80. Using tomography and dendrochronology to determine the age of the recovered bowsprit (2014)
  81. Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Historical Maps to Monitor Present and Predict Future Shoreline Impacts (2019)
  82. USS Arizona Preservation Project- Corrosion (2020)
  83. USS Arizona Short-Term Mass Loss Studies (2020)
  84. USS Indianapolis Discovered! Now What? (2019)
  85. USS Wolverine and USS Sable: Uses and Overall Impact on WWII (2022)
  86. The Utility of Communities of Practice in a Spanish Colonial Context (2023)
  87. Utopia Excavated: Preliminary Results from the Amana Colonies (2013)
  88. Validating British Bullet Strike Trajectory Associated with the British Retreat to Boston, April 19, 1775 through Live Fire Experimentation (2023)
  89. The Value of Tsunami Signatures in Marine Geoarchaeological Deposits (2014)
  90. Valued relations: coin dies as actants (2013)
  91. Values in Maritime Archaeological Heritage: A Socio-Economic Study in Understanding the Public's Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Preserving Shipwrecks in the Graveyard of Atlantic, North Carolina (2015)
  92. Vanikoro escape: The archaeological potential of the La Perouse expedition survivor craft (2022)
  93. Vanished Cultural Landscapes of the Qualla Boundary (2018)
  94. Vanishing Chinese Historical Sites (2021)
  95. Variability in Shops and Raw Materials in Delmarva’s Shell Button Industry, 1930-1990 (2022)
  96. The Vasa: A Pioneer in Large-Scale Underwater Excavations (2014)
  97. Vecino Archaeology and the Politics of Play (2016)
  98. ‘Vecino, Hispano, y Mexicano’: Exploring Civic Identity in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico (2014)
  99. ‘Vecino, Hispano, y Mexicano’: Exploring Civic Identity in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico (2014)
  100. Vectors of Privilege: The Material Culture of White Flight (2016)