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. Veins to a Dark Heart: Delineating Physical and Cognitive Boundaries in the Lower Cape Fear Rice Canals (2023)
  2. Venezuela between Spanish and English: an identity formed through images (2017)
  3. Venus and Savannah: Scuttled Vessels at the Siege of Savannah (2023)
  4. ‘”very plain plantation fare’”: Zooarchaeological Re-Analysis of the Wing of Offices at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2014)
  5. The ‘Very Stillness of Things’: Object Biographies of Sailcloth and Fishing Net from the Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission (Burgiyana) Colonial Archive, South Australia (2017)
  6. Vessels of the King's Shipyard: Examining Construction and Design (2020)
  7. Vestis Virum Fecit: Everyday Clothes for Princes and Paupers (2020)
  8. Vicar of Bray: The Archaeological Autopsy of a mid-19th Century Barque in the Falkland Islands (2019)
  9. A View from Phase II: Evaluations of Post-bellum African American Sites on Mulberry Island, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, City of Newport News, Virginia (2020)
  10. View from the Shore: AMDA Collaborations at Arnold's Bay and Beyond (2022)
  11. Viewsheds, Borders, Accessibilities – The Spatial Structuring of National-Socialist Forced Camps Illustrated by the Example of the Concentration Camp Mauthausen (2023)
  12. Village Life in the Barracks (2013)
  13. A Village School in the City? Urban transition and School Heritage (2013)
  14. Villages on the Edge of the Edge: Reflections on the Changing Economics of Irish Coastal Communities (2016)
  15. Violence, Silence and Four Truths in American Historical Memory (2018)
  16. Virtual Archaeology: Teaching Archaeology Using Virtual Reality And Game-based Learning (2020)
  17. A Virtual Co-Creative Archaeology Education Place: The Oklahoma Community Heritage Project (2021)
  18. Virtual Public Archaeology: Using 3D Imaging and Printing to Engage, Educate, and Enthrall the Public (2017)
  19. Virtual Shipwrecks; Photogrammetry and User Interface Design in Archaeological Outreach (2017)
  20. Virtually Deconstructing Vasa (2014)
  21. Virtually together?: The Digitization of the Community-Driven NC African American Cemetery Project (2021)
  22. Visibility and Accessibility: Performing Archaeology at the Presidio of San Francisco (2016)
  23. Visions in Brass: Personal Adornment and the Politics of Race in Creole New Orleans, 1790-1865. (2019)
  24. Visualizing Jamestown’s 1617 Church: Creating a 3D Model of the Site of the First General Assembly (2020)
  25. Visualizing the visible: Mapping Access and Commodities at a 19th century Farmhouse (2013)
  26. A Vital Legacy Enriching Future Generations of Americans: Some Reflections on Contributions of Stephen R. Potter, PhD. (2016)
  27. Vital Records and Landscape: Mobility, Family, and Commercial Agriculture at the Hacienda El Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico, 1830-1910 (2014)
  28. Voices Amid the Stone Trees: Historic Era Rock Art and Inscriptions of Petrified Forest National Park (2018)
  29. Voices Beyond the Rapids: Archaeology and Linear Historic Properties (2020)
  30. Voices Not Lost: An archaeology of the past and present at Timbuctoo, New Jersey (2014)
  31. Voices of a Community: How Oral Histories Can Guide Japanese American Archaeology (2018)
  32. Von Brandenstein's turtle: Expanding histories of interaction between Indigenous Australians of the Northern Pilbara and Islanders of Eastern Indonesia (2023)
  33. Waders and Snake Chaps: Targeted Exploration and Ground Truthing in the Great Dismal Swamp (2016)
  34. The Wagner-Case Site: Pharmaceutical Historical Archaeology on the Western Frontier (2016)
  35. Wagons, Trains, Trucks, and Bottles: Transportation Networks and Commodity Access in Castroville, Texas. (2017)
  36. "Waiting for the Passage Boat" – A Maritime Inn in Tróia (Portugal). (2020)
  37. The Walhain-Saint-Paul Project: Bringing new ideas and generations to the archaeological table since 1998. (2016)
  38. A Walk in the Park: An Analysis of Visitor Comprehension of Heritage at Historic Mitchelville (2022)
  39. A Walk on the Waterfront: Interpreting Pensacola’s Maritime Heritage for Passersby (2018)
  40. Walking in the Footsteps of Scottish Prisoners of War - Methods and Approaches in Recreating and Documenting a Forced March (2023)
  41. The Walled City of Charleston: Archaeology and Public Interpretation (2014)
  42. Walls Have Ears, Bottles Have Mouths (2017)
  43. Walls of Wood, Earth, and Friendship: French Colonial Forts at the Alabama Post, 1717-1763 (2014)
  44. Wampum’s Pre-Colonial Origins: An Indigenous Story (2020)
  45. Wanted: Cheap Labor. Livings of Working Class European Immigrants in an Iron Furnace (2018)
  46. War On Our Doorstep: U-boats Off The Mid-Atlantic Coast (2018)
  47. War on the Chesapeake: Artifact Analysis of a War of 1812 Flotilla Ship (2016)
  48. War on the Homefront: National Division and South Africa's Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945 (2018)
  49. War-time Metal Production, Reappropriation, and Use: Spatial Patterning and Metal Technology at an early Seventeen Century Pequot Village (2016)
  50. "The Ware is in Perfect Order": Reassessing the Transferprint Color Chronology using Period Newspaper Advertisements (2017)
  51. Wares of Venus: The sensoriality of sex for purchase at a 19th-century Boston brothel (2018)
  52. Warrior Queen and Sacred Goddess: The Name Boudicca, "Victorious Woman," on Gravestones and Roman Writings, from Iberia to Gaul to Britannia to Germania. (2023)
  53. Wars With America 1776 - 1815 (2013)
  54. Warwick in the Context of 17th Century Sail (2013)
  55. The Warwick Plain Scale: An Early Seventeenth-Century Navigational Instrument (2013)
  56. The Warwick Project (2013)
  57. Warwick : An English Galleon from 1619 Rigging Reconstruction (2014)
  58. "Washington Began To Make The Highways Around Philadelphia So Unsafe With Parties From His Fortified Camp:" The Strategic Importance Of The Valley Forge Winter Encampment—A Historical, Archaeological, And Landscape Perspective (2016)
  59. Washington's Board of Public Works and the Burial of Herring Hill in Georgetown, District of Columbia (An Archaeology of Municipal Infrastructure). (2015)
  60. Water and Wood Landings can leave a Mark: Ship Graffiti as Evidence of Visitation to Cocos Island, Costa Rica (2018)
  61. Water At Montpelier: Creating And Controlling A 19th Century Plantation Landscape (2017)
  62. Water for the City, Ruins for the Country: Archaeology of the NYC Watershed (2014)
  63. Water Infrastructure As An Archaeological Urban Landscape (2023)
  64. "The Water Was Let into the Pipes and Conveyed into the Town…": Wells, Chamber Pots, and Municipal Water in 19th Century Alexandria, VA (2020)
  65. Waterlogged Textile Conservation (2019)
  66. The Waters Around You Have Grown: Discovering Staten Island's Past through Protecting its Future (2020)
  67. The Waving Girl of Savannah: A Bronze Salute to Real Life Values and Legend (2023)
  68. Way Hay and Up She Rises: The Recovery, Conservation, and Documentation of a Historic Admiralty Anchor from the Gulf of Mexico (2018)
  69. "We are not ready for musealization – the conflict is not over yet" - A multisource and community approach to a 20th century protest camp site in Germany (2018)
  70. We Are Stronger Together: Collaboration, the New Model for Research Projects. (2023)
  71. "We can do better, we have to do better": Reevaluating and Remounting a Traveling Exhibit (2018)
  72. We Can’t Just Hold Hands And Sing Kumbaya: A Beachhead of Collaboration Balancing Critical Infrastructure and Maritime History On The Jersey Shore (2022)
  73. "We Commenced Replying to a Battery of the Enemy": Locating Turner’s (C.S.A.) Artillery at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, 8 October 1862 (2017)
  74. "We dined with him that day...in the French Manner": Food, identity, and politics in the Mississippi Valley (2016)
  75. "We have done very little investigation there; there is a great deal yet to do": The changing historic landscape of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. (2017)
  76. "We have Enriched it with our Blood and Tears": Debating Citizenship and Colonization at Montpelier (2023)
  77. We Know You’re Up There: French Perspectives on Inter-Cultural Engagement in Southern Labrador (2014)
  78. We Know You’’re Down There: Inuit Perspectives on Inter-Cultural Engagement in Southern Labrador (2014)
  79. "We like them just fine": Racializing Hiring Practices and Japanese American Sawmill Labor in Western Washington, 1900 – 1930 (2016)
  80. "We liked the Ladies’ little double bed": Queer Pilgrimage and the Heritage House (2013)
  81. We Might Be Mad Here: An Archaeological Investigation of Institutional Life in the Northeast (2016)
  82. "We Never Left": Arikara Settlement and Community Construction on the Missouri River (2018)
  83. ‘We stayed there a year and 8 months’: Historical Archeology and British POWs at Camps Security and Indulgence, York County, Pennsylvania (2014)
  84. "We too are the village": Reparative heritage at Catoctin Furnace (2020)
  85. "A WEAK MAN can now cure himself…" Exploring Sandpoint, Idaho Brothels as Alternative Venues for Treatment of "Private Diseases of Men" – and other afflictions. (2016)
  86. A Wealth Of Data From The Lives Of The Poor – Wringing All The Information Out Of A Historic Archaeological Site (2016)
  87. Weaponizing the Heritage of Violence: Competing Memories at Mass Graves in Russia and Ukraine (2022)
  88. Weapons Of Ebenezer, Georgia In The American Revolution (2023)
  89. The Weapons of Warwick (2013)
  90. Wearisome Work: Mapping Labor Routines at a Small-Scale Gold Mill (2018)
  91. Weighing in on Multi-scalar Approaches (2014)
  92. Weight, Weight . . . Don’t Tell Me: the Assemblage of Weights from the Storm Wreck. (2016)
  93. The Weimar Joint Sanatorium: Memory, Movement, and Access (2018)
  94. The Welches’ Windows: Exploring Window Glass Analyses (2018)
  95. "Welcome to Nowhere": Temporary and Permanent Life in the Remote Black Rock Desert at Granite Creek Station (2017)
  96. Well, Shoot: Firearm Target Practice as a Recreational Activity on a Rural 19th Century Homestead (2017)
  97. "Well-Found Ship, Full Equipment, and High Hopes": Material Culture Studies and the Outfitting of Historic Antarctic Expeditions (2023)
  98. Wendat Use of Introduced Copper-Base Metal: Evolution of forms and motifs from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (2014)
  99. Werowocomoco: Competing Narratives at the Center of Tsenocomacah (2020)
  100. West Africa and the Atlantic World: Trade Goods of the Elmina Shipwreck (2019)