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. The Wreck Of The Submarine USS H1 SEAWOLF At Baja California, Mexico (2019)
  2. The wreck of the São José Paquete d’África, unlocking Hidden Histories: Archaeology as Protagonist (2023)
  3. The Wreck of the Warwick, Bermuda 1619 (2014)
  4. The Wreck of the Warwick: History and final analysis of an early 17th-century Virginia Company ship. (2015)
  5. Wrecked! An Interactive Exhibition on a Revolutionary War Shipwreck in St. Augustine, Florida (2016)
  6. Writing the Archaeology of America's Modern Cities (2013)
  7. Writing, Sewing, Eating: Faunal Analysis of a post-Emancipation School for Girls in Montserrat, West Indies (2018)
  8. Writing|Righting the History of Missoula’s Recent Past: Reflecting on the Outcomes of Intense Public Archaeology amid Extensive Growth (2020)
  9. WWI and the Philadelphia Navy Yard: An NPS Teaching with Historic Places Lightning Lesson Plan (2022)
  10. WWI Concrete Shipwrecks in Texas (2018)
  11. WWII-Related Caves, Community Archaeology and Public Service Announcements: A Community Approach to Raising Awareness and Protecting Caves (2016)
  12. X-ray Fluorescence and Conservation: It's Elementary (2022)
  13. Xenia, IN: A Comparison Study Based on the Carolina Artifact Pattern (2017)
  14. XXVIIth SHA-CUA Government Maritime Managers Meeting: "There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing" (Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE) (2019)
  15. Yaughan and Curriboo: A New Look at Two Eighteenth-Century Low Country Plantations (2014)
  16. A Yeoman’s House in Marshfield: the c. 1638 Robert Waterman House (2020)
  17. Yes! You Can Have Access to That! Increasing and Promoting the Accessibility of Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
  18. "Yes, Sir. All Was in Arms:" An Account of the Small Arms Discovered on the Wreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (2018)
  19. Yes, Us Too: Sexual Harassment and Assault in Historical Archaeology and What Can Be Done About It (2019)
  20. Yield Strength of the Egadi 10 Warship: Using Nonlinear Computer Simulations to Examine Collision Dynamics in Greco-Roman Naval Conflicts (2020)
  21. "Yorktown’s Second Most Famous Couple": Landscape, Heritage, and the Politics of Memory in Yorktown, Virginia (2023)
  22. You Can't Keep a Workin' Man Down: Black Masculinity, Labor, and the Frontier (2016)
  23. You Can’t Tell a Book by its Hardware: An Examination of Book Hardware Recovered from James Fort (2017)
  24. You Don’t Find Jack: Archaeological Investigations at Two Rural, Nineteenth Century Midwest School Houses (2018)
  25. You Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee; Consumer Goods at the 19th Century Maya Refugee Site at Tikal, Guatemala (2017)
  26. "You Have Harmed Us": Structural Violence and the Indian School experience among the Port Gamble S’Kllalam community. (2020)
  27. You Missed a Spot: How Proper Conservation Revealed Much about an Obscure Aspect of Nineteenth Century Naval Technology (2017)
  28. "You No Longer Leave Your Heart in San Francisco. The City Breaks It": Reconciling the Realities of Urban Displacement and Slow Archaeology. (2020)
  29. You Say You Want a Revolution: Eighteenth Century Conflict Archaeology in the Savannah River Watershed of Georgia and South Carolina (2016)
  30. You Say You Want A Revolution? Diverging Consequences Of The French Revolution On French Caribbean Slave Societies. (2018)
  31. You Wanna Take This Outside?: Porches, Parkitecture, and the Creation of an American Identity (2020)
  32. Zanzibar Before the Transnational Storm: Considerations of the Uneven Stops and Starts of the Colonial Project (2018)
  33. Zooarchaeological Evidence of Dietary Impacts from Contact at Maima, Jamaica (2016)
  34. Zooarchaeological Insights from Upper Delaware (2016)
  35. Zooarchaeological Perspective on a Portuguese Enclave in Nineteenth-Century Springfield, Illinois (2023)
  36. Zooarchaeology and Commerce at the Old Village of St. Louis: An Examination of the Berger Site (23SL2402) (2019)
  37. Zooarchaeology and GIS: Enslaved and Free Black Diet at a Late Eighteenth– to Mid–Nineteenth–Century Delaware Farm, New Castle County, Delaware, United States (2022)
  38. Zooarchaeology and the Siege of Fort Stanwix: Reconstructing an American Revolution Landscape (2018)
  39. Zooarchaeology of Historic Fort Snelling (21HE99) and the Native Ecology of Bdote (2018)