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. White Privilege and the Archaeology of Accountability on Long Island (2013)
  2. White Washing an African American Landscape: A Look at “Self-Deportation” Strategies in 19th Century Virginia (2014)
  3. Whitehall's Restoration: A Tribute To Horatio Sharpe, A Reflection Of Charles Scarlett (2017)
  4. Whither Seneca Village? (2016)
  5. Whither The Tavern Pattern? (2018)
  6. Who is "Free" Today?: Negotiating the documentary record of labor history for archaeology (2015)
  7. Who is Part of the Community?: When Terms Like "Stakeholder" and "Descendant" Don’t Quite Cut it (2023)
  8. Who Lies Buried Here? The Campo Santo at the Spanish Colonial San Diego Presidio: Gender, Status, Ethnicity (2020)
  9. Who owns England’s marine historic assets and why does it matter? English Heritage’s work towards understanding the opportunities and threats, and the development of solutions and constructive engagement with owners (2014)
  10. Who sewed those buttons? Materials and Technologies in the Making of the Global Self. An Example from Guåham in Månislan Marianas (2023)
  11. Who Speaks for the Archaeological Record?: A Media Analysis of Canadian Archaeology (2016)
  12. Who was Maria Grann? Balancing Archives of Narratives and Facts of a Contested Sámi(?) Skull (2023)
  13. Who Was The Woman In The Iron Coffin? (2020)
  14. "Who Would Be Free Themselves Must Strike the Blow": An Archaeology of Armed Resistance at Christiana, PA (2022)
  15. Who/What Is In That Vial? (2018)
  16. Whole Molding Construction in Baía de Todos os Santos, Brazil (2015)
  17. Whose Midden is it Anyway? : Exploring the Origins of the Southwest Yard Midden at James Madison's Montpelier (2016)
  18. Who’s Free Markets? Subaltern Economic Networks in Reconstruction Delmarva and the Importance of Philadelphia (2022)
  19. Why "Chinese Diaspora" Is More Than Just An Ethnic Label (2016)
  20. Why 17th and Early 18th Century Sites are Under-Represented, A Delaware–New Jersey Perspective (2020)
  21. Why BISC-2’s Brick Ballast May Have the Most Interesting  (Archaeological) Things to Say about Imperial Marginality (2013)
  22. Why Chocolate? An Historical Archaeology of Chocolate Producers and Consumers, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century (2014)
  23. Why Move? : A case study of change and migration in rural Ireland and connections to broader social and political movements (2018)
  24. Why we conserve artifacts, the CSS Georgia Story. (2016)
  25. The Wickedest City: Ecological History and Archaeological Potential at La Balise (2018)
  26. Widening social participation in conservation and display of archaeology at the Museum of London (2013)
  27. Wild animal use and landscape interpretations at Pimeria Alta Spanish colonial sites (2016)
  28. Will Historical Archaeology Escape its Western Prejudices to Become Relevant to Africa? (2014)
  29. "Will Likely Endeavor to Pass for Free": Runaway Slave Advertisements in New Jersey Newspapers, 1777-1808 (2022)
  30. William Berkley, Civil War Sutler: Archaeological Investigations (2016)
  31. William Green Plantation Archaeological Project: Uncovering The Lives Of Indentured And Enslaved Persons In 18th Century Trenton, New Jersey (2022)
  32. William P. Rend shipwreck: A link in Davidson-related Archaeology and Historical Research (2014)
  33. William Pile and the China tea clipper Undine (2014)
  34. The Williamsburg Bray School: Reconstructing the Landscape of African American Education in Colonial Virginia (2023)
  35. Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern Revisited (2017)
  36. William’s Patent "Cleaner" Ammunition: Enigmatic Bullets from the American Civil War (2023)
  37. The Willing Suspension of Documentary Evidence: Centering the Artifact and Considering Tacit Knowledge (2023)
  38. The Wind Cries Mary: The Effects of Soundscape on the Prairie Madness Phenomenon (2018)
  39. Wind-Powered Sugar Mills as Constructions of Control in the Plantation Landscapes of Montserrat, West Indies (2017)
  40. Window Glass Analysis (2014)
  41. A Window to the Past: The Archaeological Significance of the Plank Log House to Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania (2015)
  42. Windshields and Warfighters: Sharing Lessons Learned from the Roads and Military Installations of Texas (2018)
  43. Wine, Brandy, and Botijas at the Periphery of the Afro-Atlantic World: Production and Ethnicity on the Jesuit Estates of the Southern Pacific Coast of Peru (2015)
  44. The Winners Write the History: The French-Canadian Archaeological Project in Oregon (2014)
  45. Wisconsin’s Underwater Heritage: The Role of Avocational Maritime Archaeology in Wisconsin (2022)
  46. "With Great Care": High End Porcelain on Black Beacon Hill (2020)
  47. With This Bone I Thee Make (2022)
  48. Within These Walls and Beyond: How the NHPA Saved and Continues to Protect Dry Tortugas National Park (2016)
  49. "Without prominent event": the McDonald Site in the Hoosier National Forest (2016)
  50. Without regard for persons: The archaeology of american capitalism (2013)
  51. Wolf Pits in 17th Century Delaware (2022)
  52. A Woman's Touch: The Absent Presence in Antarctica (2023)
  53. Women and Children First: The Archaeology of Motherhood and Childhood on San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Cove (2015)
  54. Women At Work in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (2022)
  55. Women in 16thCentury San Juan, Puerto Rico: Material Culture and Gender Role Contradictions (2020)
  56. "Women Smoking Leather": Identifying Women and Their Ethnicity at Fort Selkirk. (2015)
  57. Women’s Lives Matter: Deconstructing BLM’s toppling down actions from a feminist perspective (2023)
  58. Women’s Occupations in Early 20th Century San Juan, Puerto Rico, and its Relevance to Archaeological Research (2018)
  59. Wood Analysis from the IDM-013 Shipwreck (2023)
  60. Wood and Wampum: Transformative Expressions of Indigenous Power (2020)
  61. Wood Work: Excavating the Wilderness Economy of New York’s Adirondack Mountains (2016)
  62. Wooden Histories: Narratives of Rural Abandonment and Disappearing Landmarks (2018)
  63. Wooden History of "The Highwayman" - Wreckage and Discovery of the Lumber Schooner Oliver J. Olson (1900 -1911) (2016)
  64. Wool’d You Be My Neighbor: Excavation of a German Immigrant Household in Providence, RI (2020)
  65. The Work of Studying Labor: Archaeological Taskscapes and Community Engagement in the Andean Highlands (2021)
  66. The work space of the British planter class, 1770 – 1830 (2013)
  67. Worker’s Housing and Class Struggle in the Northern Forest (2017)
  68. Working Class Providence: The Gaspee Street Neighborhood in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2020)
  69. Working in Small Areas: The Archaeology Of An Urban Backyard in St. Charles, Missouri (2018)
  70. Working Off the Farm: Extracurricular Labor Expenditures and Farm Households (2018)
  71. Working on the Edge, Dealing with the Core: Emic and Etic perspectives on Island Heritage (2016)
  72. Working Side-By-Side at the Grassroots Level: the Role of the Non-Profit and Avocationalist (2016)
  73. Working Title: Saenger Pottery Works: Preliminary Report, Unlocking a Town’s History through Their Pottery (2017)
  74. Working To Stay Together In "Foresaken Out Of The Way Places": Examining Anishinaabe Logging Camps And Lumbering Communities As Sites Of Social Refuge In The Industrial Frontier Of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (2018)
  75. Working Together to Reclaim History (2022)
  76. Working Toward an Activist Landscape Archaeology (2013)
  77. Working with indigenous (descendant) communities and the study of Roman Britain (2013)
  78. Working With Under-Represented Archaeological Heritages of St Croix, USVI (2023)
  79. Working-class culture in the urban landscape of twentieth-century Sheffield (2018)
  80. The World for Oysters - The Transportation of Oysters in 19th-Century North America and Its Impact on Inland Foodways. (2023)
  81. World Heritage and Industrial Archaeology on Minions Moor: Cars, Cattle and Commoners (2013)
  82. The World in his Pocket: the diverse coins used in the California Gold Rush (2017)
  83. World War I shipwrecks in Irish Waters - management and protection (2023)
  84. World War II in Western Massachusetts: Contemporary Archaeology of a Plane Crash (2021)
  85. World War II Shipping in the Gulf of Mexico and the Impact of the German U-boat Threat: the Archaeological Evidence (2016)
  86. “A Worlde of Miseries”: The Starving Time and Cannibalism at Jamestown (2014)
  87. Worldly Tales: Shipwrecks And Atlantic Connections (2023)
  88. Worst Case Scenario: Archaeological Implications of a Pipeline Rupture on the Enbridge Line 5 through the Straits of Mackinac in Lakes Michigan and Huron (2019)
  89. Worth(Less): Value and Destruction in a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Quarry Town (2014)
  90. Worthy of a Thousand Words?: A Comparison of Images of Slavery in the US and Great Britain (2013)
  91. Wounded Spaces, Memory Places: The case of Portland’s African American crewmembers and meaning-making in maritime archaeology (2023)
  92. The WPA In Central Texas: Making 80 Year Old Records Speak Again (2020)
  93. The Wreck of Alexa: The International Copra Trade and Australia’s Last Commercially Operated Square-rigged Sailing Vessel (2021)
  94. The Wreck of HMS Erebus: A Fieldwork and Research Update (2020)
  95. The Wreck of HMS Terror (2020)
  96. The Wreck Of The 1564 Tierra Firme Galleon Santa Clara: An Overview (2020)
  97. The Wreck of the Auguste, Nova Scotia: An Introduction to a Cartel Ship (2014)
  98. The Wreck Of The Galleon San Agustin: A Case Study In Economics, Exploration, And European Development Of The Pacific Rim. (2017)
  99. The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant: Identification and Affiliation of Captain Kidd’s Lost Ship (2016)
  100. The Wreck of the Slave Ship Peter Mowell: History, Archaeology, & Genealogy (2018)