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. West African Shores: Ports, infrastructure, and the taskscape of maritime labor (2023)
  2. The Western Front in the Backyard: The Excavation of Camp Howze, American Training and German Detention in Rural Texas, 1942-1946 (2013)
  3. Westward Ho! Down Below: Archaeological Applications of Aerial Photography and Thermography at the Western Outpost of Alkali Station, Nebraska (2018)
  4. Wet and Dry: the Archaeology of Basque and Inuit Pioneers at Hare harbor, Petit Mecatina, on the Quebec Lower North shore (2014)
  5. Wet and Dry: the Archaeology of Basque and Inuit Pioneers at Hare harbor, Petit Mecatina, on the Quebec Lower North shore (2014)
  6. The Wetherill Homestead and Trading Post, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. (2015)
  7. "We’re Engaging Youth, but are we Meeting the Needs of the Park?": Reexamining the first Four Years of the Urban Archaeology Corps (2016)
  8. "We’re Gonna be Rich!’": The Portrayal of Underwater Cultural Heritage Themes in LEGO (2023)
  9. A whaler unearthed: the 19th century whaling ship Candace in downtown San Francisco (2015)
  10. Whaleships as Workplaces: An Industrial Approach to Shipwreck Interpretation (2015)
  11. The whaling stations of Chateau Bay and Pleasure Harbour (Labrador, Canada), revisiting a temporary settlement model (2014)
  12. What About the Dishes? (2013)
  13. What Are Our Options?: Assessing The Conservation Needs of Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site's Waterfront (2015)
  14. What are the Potential Effects of an Oil Spill on Coastal Archaeological Sites? (2016)
  15. What are the Potential Effects of an Oil Spill on Coastal Archaeological Sites? (2015)
  16. What Can A Pandemic Offer Disabled People?: Vulnerable Subjects, Crip Community, And Archaeological Narrative (2021)
  17. What can pipe stem assemblages tell us about the relationship between natives and missionaries on Old Mission peninsula? (2018)
  18. What can we infer about family plots scatterings in a 19th Century Southern Georgia church grave site. (2015)
  19. "What Catalog System Do You Use?" Confronting the Philosophies that Prevent Standardization and Consensus in Archaeological Catalogs (2019)
  20. "What Color was Your Papa’s Coat of Arms, Again?" How a Central Valley Californian Community Remembers its ‘Post-War’ Landscape (2020)
  21. What Comes In, Must Come Out: A Look Into Botanical Assemblages From Historical Philadelphia Privies. (2022)
  22. What Comes Next? Training & Technology in Underwater Archaeology (2014)
  23. What Comes Next? Training & Technology in Underwater Archaeology (2014)
  24. What Could Possibly Go Wrong… Small Craft in Search of a Manila Galleon (2017)
  25. What Did It All Mean? Archaeology at The Hermitage in the 1990s (2018)
  26. What Do All These Broken Things Mean? Collectively Interpreting the Archaeology of The Hill Neighborhood in Easton, Maryland (2018)
  27. What do volunteers get out of it anyway?: Volunteers’ Views of Public Archaeology in the Great Bay Archaeological Survey (2020)
  28. What else is new?: The Hudson’s Bay Company, Fort Albany and the Study of Colonialism (2020)
  29. What Guides Us with Collections? A discussion on Rethinking our Relationship with Artifacts (2019)
  30. "What happens in the Embocadero, stays in the Embocadero": An Archaeological interpretation of the early Spanish exploration of the Pacific and the establishment of the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade. (2017)
  31. What Happens to Landscape Archaeology when the Land Ends? The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (2014)
  32. What Have We Accomplished So Far in Japanese Diaspora Archaeology? (2018)
  33. What Have We Done, What Are We Doing, and Where Are We Going with Overseas Chinese Archaeology? (2015)
  34. What Have We Here?: Discovery at the UTA District Depot Project in Salt Lake City, Utah (2016)
  35. What if the place is gone? Reinvigorating Place, Memory, and Identity through New Media (2017)
  36. What is There for Remembrance?: Finding Significance and Integrity at Places of Labor Conflict and Violence (2021)
  37. What Lasts of Us: Implicit Archaeology through Environmental Storytelling (2023)
  38. What Lies Beneath At The Pine Street Barge Canal Breakwater Ship Graveyard: Site Formation Processes As A Document Of Change In Burlington, Vermont (C. 1830-1960) (2021)
  39. What Lies Beneath the Seaweed: Searching for Submerged Remains of an Attempted 1604-1605 French Settlement at St. Croix Island International Historic Site (2014)
  40. What Lies Beneath: An Analysis of Historic Ceramics Found at 23SC2101, a Multi-Component Historic Site. (2017)
  41. What Makes A Wasteland? Ruins, Rubble And Regeneration (2021)
  42. What Questions Must be Asked to Engage Africans in Their Pasts? (2014)
  43. What the Animals Tells About Us. Survival Strategies of the Guerrilla Warfare in Northwestern Iberia Through the Faunal Remains (2023)
  44. What They Carried: Deriving Context and Meaning from the Items Recovered in Graves of WWII Service Members in Tarawa (2023)
  45. What They Wore: An Examination of the Clothing and Shoes Recovered from H.L. Hunley (2020)
  46. What This Fort Stands For: conflicting memory at Bdote/Historic Fort Snelling (2016)
  47. What Transferware Can Tell Us: A Case Study Utilizing an At-Risk U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Collection from the Veterans Curation Program (2018)
  48. What Trash Tells Us: A Look at Fort Davis's 20th-Century Population (2017)
  49. What We can Learn from Silence: Analyzing Archival Omissions within the Context of Enslaved African Americans at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (2022)
  50. What We Knew Then and What We Know Now: How New Archival Research Has Changed Our Understanding of the Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Cemetery Population (2017)
  51. What's Canoe With You?: Understanding Wisconsin's Inland Prehistoric Maritime Landscapes (2023)
  52. What's So Different About Public History? (2015)
  53. What’s for Dinner: An Intra-site Analysis of Faunal Remains from James Madison’s Montpelier (2018)
  54. What’s in a Button?: Sartorial Artifacts, Colonial Journeys, and the Archaeological Imagination (2019)
  55. What’s in a Name? Discussions of Terminology, Theory and Infrastructure of Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: Session Introduction (2022)
  56. What’s in the Cellar: the Archaeology of an 1885 Officers’ Quarters at Fort Walla Walla, Washington (2015)
  57. "What’s This Doing There": Archaeological Evidence of the St. Louis Barter Economy (2019)
  58. What’s Under The Ice: A Geophysical Survey Of The King's Shipyard, Lake Champlain, New York (2020)
  59. (What’s) Left of the Commodity: Archaeology and the Creative Resuscitation of Spent Goods (2018)
  60. When All You Have are Artifacts: Reassessing Intrinsic Issues in Assigning Cultural Identity to Artifact Assemblages in Colonial South Carolina (2016)
  61. When Archeology is the Vehicle, Not the Point (2020)
  62. When did Indian Ocean transform into a trade-lake? Contextualising the archaeological evidence from Pattanam, Kerala, India in the maritime interfaces of the Old World. (2020)
  63. "When Hungate Was Taken Down.........." – Solid And Ephemeral: The Dichotomy At The Heart Of The Archaeology Of Clearance In 1930s York. (2018)
  64. "When it’s steamboat time, you steam:" The Influence of 19th Century Steamships in the Gulf of Mexico (2016)
  65. When medieval becomes early modern – changing interpretations of the Poel 11 and Hiddensee 12 ships from the southwestern Baltic Sea in Germany (2013)
  66. When Men Cannot Work; Camp Au Train a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (2020)
  67. When Modern Aviation Progress Meets the Tenacious Echoes of a Jim Crow Past: Archaeological and Historical Cemetery Investigations at Stinson Municipal Airport, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (2022)
  68. When Nobody’s Home: Nationalistic Veneration and the Constraints of Interpretation at the Unreconstructed Ruins of Secretary Thomas Nelson’s House in Yorktown, Virginia (2014)
  69. When questions and answers really count: historical archaeology, conflict resolution, and sustainability (2014)
  70. When the Community Becomes the Classroom: A Decades Long Partnership with the Parker Homestead-1665 (2022)
  71. When the Conflict Ends: Building Reuse on the Wyoming Frontier (2018)
  72. When the Gales of November Come Howlin’: 2016 Archaeological Investigation of the Adriatic (47DR0208) (2018)
  73. ‘When the King breaks a town, he builds another’: Space, Politics, and Gerrymandered Identities in Precolonial Dahomey (2015)
  74. When the Light Goes Out: The Importance of Women’s Labor in the Household Economy (2016)
  75. When the Neighborhood Went to Hell: The Seminole Perspective of a U.S. Military Fort (2020)
  76. When there is no ‘X’ to mark the spot: Questioning the Validity of the Archaeologist, Community Collaboration, and The Study of Transient Immigrant Labor (2014)
  77. When Time Has Run Out: Using Space And Form To Build Context (2021)
  78. When ‘early’ modern colonialism comes late: Historical archaeology in Vanuatu (2014)
  79. Where and How Does the Underground Railroad Fit in African American Archaeology? (2020)
  80. Where Archaeology and History Diverge: how the archaeology of mystery U-boat wrecks challenges official history but yields insights into the realities of anti-submarine warfare in World War Two. (2013)
  81. Where are the Dinosaurs? The Children’s Museum’s Role in Archaeological Education (2018)
  82. Where did Gloucestertown go? Reconstructing the Disappearance of a Colonial Town (2018)
  83. "Where Did That Come From?" Accessioning Methods utilized on the excavation of the CSS Georgia. (2016)
  84. "Where France Meets North America": A View from Anse à Bertrand, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (2018)
  85. Where Intolerance, Bigotry, and Cruelty Never Flourished’: A Case Study of Slavery in 18th Century South Kingstown, Rhode Island (2014)
  86. «where my father and mother are buried»: Landscape and the Moral Orders of Emplacement throughout the Plantation Chesapeake (2014)
  87. "Where Ornament and Function are so Agreeably Combined" Redux: A New Look at Consumer Choice Studies Using English Ceramic Wares at Several 19th Century Fur Trade Sites Along the Columbia River (2015)
  88. «Where Patriotism and Loyalty Intersect with Truth:» The Archaeology and Public Engagement of the 1947 Pine Camp Barracks Fire (2014)
  89. «Where Patriotism and Loyalty Intersect with Truth:» The Archaeology and Public Engagement of the 1947 Pine Camp Barracks Fire (2014)
  90. "Where Slavery Died Hard:" The Forgotten History of Ulster County, New York (2016)
  91. Where The Past Meets The Present With a Promise: Community Impact Of History-Based Outreach In Galesville, Maryland (2016)
  92. Where The Wild Things Aren't: Expanding Domestication Definitions in Indigenous Worlds as a Case Study from Picuris Pueblo, NM (2023)
  93. Where They Fight: Apsáalooke Spirituality on the Battlefield (2021)
  94. "Whereon ye Ould Foart Stood…:" Geophysical and archaeological investigations at the site of Fort Casimir, New Castle, Delaware (2013)
  95. Which glass found on American sites was American made? Archaeological collections as resources for glass research (2016)
  96. Which Software is Better for Underwater Archaeological Recording? A Brief Explanations of Agifost PhotoScan and RialityCapture. (2019)
  97. Which Way is Ashtabula? Recent Archaeological Investigations within Lake Erie Waters of Ashtabula County, Ohio (2019)
  98. The Whipstaff Mascaron (2018)
  99. "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over": The Harrison Spring, Water Control, and Strategic Gift Exchange on Palomar Mountain (2020)
  100. "The White North Has Thy Bones": Sir John Franklin's 1845 Expedition and the Loss of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror (2016)