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. Building Anthony Wayne: Working Towards a Hypothetical Reconstruction of an Early Great Lakes Steamboat (2014)
  2. Building Collaboration and Sustaining Partnership for the Recovery of Missing American Airmen from the Second World War in Austria (2020)
  3. Building Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Tanzania and its Urban Representation (2013)
  4. Building Diaspora: Surviving and Thriving in the Shadow of Imperialism (2015)
  5. Building Ideas: lunatic asylum reform in the British Isles, 1815-1845 (2014)
  6. Building Inclusion; A Model For Success (2022)
  7. The Building of the City of Orthez (2018)
  8. Building relevant capacity in implementing Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage programs (2013)
  9. Building the ‘City on a Hill’: Merchants and Their Houses in 17th-century England and America (2020)
  10. Building Trust, Establishing Authority, and Communicating Efficacy: The Visual and Material Experience of Apothecary Shops in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic (2020)
  11. Building, Dwelling, Thinking: A social geography of a late 17th century plantation. (2016)
  12. Buildings and Bling But No Bottles or Bone? Peculiar Findings at the Houston-LeCompt Site (2016)
  13. Built on Sand and Sanguine Expectations: Reconstructing the Layout of a Ghost Town, Signal, Arizona Territory (2015)
  14. Bullet Riddled Artifacts: Curated Objects of Memory from the First Day of the American Revolution (2022)
  15. Bullets, Shrapnel, Case, and Canister: Archaeology and GIS at the Piper Farm, Antietam National Battlefield (2016)
  16. Bulow Plantation (8FL7): The Main House Kitchen and Remaking of Plantation Landscapes in the Post-Emancipation South (2020)
  17. Bulow Plantation and Fort Bulowville: Considering the Pompeii Premise in Plantation and Conflict Archaeology (2019)
  18. Bung Borers and Butter Pots: Comparing 18th-century Probate Records with Archaeological Evidence from the Chesapeake (2018)
  19. Bunker Hill Farm, Camp Michaux: From Farmhouse to Bathhouse (2016)
  20. Buoyancy and Stability of the Warwick: Analytical Study of Ballast  (2013)
  21. Burial and Remembrance: The Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2013)
  22. Burial Grounds Around the Edges: Franklin Square and St. Stephens (2022)
  23. Burying the Sons of Israel in America: Jewish Cemeteries as the Focal Point of Diasporic Community Development (2018)
  24. 'Business Carried them Far from Home': The Object Itinerary of a 19th-Century Antiquarian Collection (2022)
  25. "But I'm Not Dead Yet:"  A Comparison of Medicinal Choices Made by the Chinese in the American West (2013)
  26. “Butted and bounded as followeth”: LiDAR and the historical division of the landscape in southern New England (2014)
  27. Button, Button, Who's Got the Button: Uncovering Clues to the Garrison of Fort George, Turks and Caicos Islands (2013)
  28. Buttoning Up at the Biry House A Study of Clothing Fasteners of a Descendant Alsatian Household (2016)
  29. Buttoning Up The Social Fabric: Clothing Fasteners Of An Alsatian Immigrant Household (2017)
  30. Buttons, Buckles, and Buffalo Soldiers: Personal Adornment and Identity at Fort Davis (2017)
  31. Buying Pottery, Leasing Land, And Marketing A Nation: Investigating Euroamerican Ceramic Use In The Catawba Nation Before And After Land-Leasing (2020)
  32. Buying Pottery, Leasing Land, And Marketing A Nation: Investigating Euroamerican Ceramic Use In The Catawba Nation Before And After Land-Leasing (2020)
  33. Buzz-word or paradigm shift? Some comments on "Medieval Archaeology", "Post-medieval Archaeology" and the rise of "Historical Archaeology" (a German perspective) (2013)
  34. By River, By Road, and By Rail (2020)
  35. By which so much happiness is produced’: An Analysis of the Seventeenth-Century Kirke Tavern at Ferryland, Newfoundland (2014)
  36. A Bygone Boiler That Doesn’t Belong (2014)
  37. C. J. Young Artist: Archaeology of Civil War Photography and Stencil Cutting at Camp Nelson, Kentucky (2017)
  38. Cabins, Households, and Families: The Multiple Loci of Pooled Production at James Madison's Montpelier (2016)
  39. Cacao and Criollo-ware: Historical Archaeology of Contraband between Curaçao, Bonaire, and Venezuela, 17th–18th Century (2021)
  40. Calculating the Probability of Local Coarse Earthenware Manufacture at the 17th Century Coan Hall Site Utilizing pXRF Analysis (2019)
  41. California Public Education and the Mexican Ranchos - Looking Beyond 4th Grade (2017)
  42. California’s Corporate Cattle (2017)
  43. Calzones, Medias, And Camisas: Comparison Of The Material Assemblages Of 16th Century Spanish Probate Records To The Artifact Assemblage At The Luna Settlement Site (2020)
  44. Camino Real de Tierra Adentro: Locating Trail Segments through Predictive Modeling (2017)
  45. Camp 'a Colchester: Fairfax County, VA (2016)
  46. Camp Atterbury's Grey Areas: Civilian Cemeteries on Military Property (2018)
  47. Camp Creek Garden of the Gods Flood Mitigation Facility and Downstream Improvements Project, El Paso County, Colorado: A Unique Intersection of the Section 106 Process between Two Lead Federal Agencies (2020)
  48. Camp Lawton:  Life and Death of a Civil War Prison (2013)
  49. Camp McCoy: The Archaeology of Enlisted Men Before the Great War, ca. 1905-1910 (2018)
  50. Camp of the 6th New York Volunteer Infantry and the Battle of Santa Rosa Island, Florida (2017)
  51. Camp Stanton and the Archaeology of Racial Ideology at a Camp of Instruction for the U.S. Colored Troops in Benedict, Charles County, Maryland. (2016)
  52. Campo das Cebolas nautical contexts. Study results (2023)
  53. Can A Picture Save A Thousand Ships?: Using 3D Photogrammetry To Streamline Maritime Archaeological Recordation And Modeling (2016)
  54. Can Artificial Reef Wrecks Reduce Diver Impacts on Historic Shipwrecks? A Case Study from Australia (2015)
  55. Can Economic Concepts Be Used To More Effectively Raise Awareness And Value Of Underwater Cultural Heritage? (2016)
  56. Can I Dive with You? Citizen Science Challenges in Maritime Archaeology (2022)
  57. Can See to Can’t See: Surprises at Montpelier’s Home Quarter (2014)
  58. Can the "City on the Make" Slow Down for Archaeology?: Remarks from Chicago (2020)
  59. "Can We Work Together?": Archaeology And Community Tensions At Camp Security (2020)
  60. Can You Differentiate European Flint From American Chert? (2020)
  61. Can You Dig it? Case Studies in New England Colonial House Sites Archaeology (2020)
  62. Can You Hear Me Now? Establishing an Archaeological Connection in the World of Telecommunication (2018)
  63. Can You See Me Now?: Exploring Lines Of Sight On A Virginia Plantation (2018)
  64. Can't See the Forest for the Trees: The Upland South Folk Cemetery Tradition on United States Army Corps of Engineers Land in Georgia (2017)
  65. The Can: Clandestine Infant Burials in Plain Sight (2023)
  66. Canadians Abroad in 1927: The Ashbridges do England! (2013)
  67. Canine Aggression and Canine Affection in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg: Analyzing the Dog Burials at the Anderson Armoury site (2014)
  68. Cannibalism at James Fort, Jamestown, Virginia: The Bone Evidence (2014)
  69. Cannon to Crossbows: An Archaeological Glimpse at 16th-century Spanish Naval Weapons (2014)
  70. A Canoe on a Sand Bar: The Remarkable Story of the Guth Canoe in Northeast Arkansas (2015)
  71. The Cape Point Maritime Cultural Landscape: Lighthouses, Shipwrecks, Baboons and Heritage Tourism in South Africa (2015)
  72. The Cape Verdean legacy on the West African Coast - A legacy told in maps, buildings, language, fabrics and art 1500-1800. (2023)
  73. Capitalism, Hobos, and the Gilded Age: An Archaeology of Communitization in the Inbetween (2017)
  74. Capitalist Expansion and Identity in the Oasis of San Pedro de Atacama, 1880-1980: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2016)
  75. A Capitol Hill Cellar: Analysis Of The Cellar Feature From The Shotgun House Archaeology Project In Washington, D.C. (2020)
  76. Captain Ewald's Odyssey: Some Context for the 1777-78 Philadelphia Campaign (2016)
  77. Captain, Sailors and Ship : Archival Research Serving Study of the Anémone's Site (2023)
  78. Capturing the Stronghold on Glass: Using 19th Century Stereographic Photographs for Enhanced Battlefield Survey at Lava Beds National Monument. (2015)
  79. Carceral Islands in Latin America: Comparing the Galapagos to Other Sites of Frontier Criminal Exile (2019)
  80. The Carceral Side of Freedom (2018)
  81. The Care and Feeding of the Hermitage Mansion Household: Interpreting the Structural and Archaeological Evidence (2020)
  82. The CARE database (Corpus Architecturae religiosae Europeae / CARE - IV-X saec.), a new scientific tool for understanding The Early medieval Europe (2014)
  83. Caribbean Colonialism and Space Archaeology (2017)
  84. Caring for Living Plants on Sailing Ships in Captain William Bligh’s Late 18th-Century Breadfruit Expeditions (2022)
  85. "Caring for Their Prisoner Compatriots": Health and Dental Hygiene at the Kooskia Internment Camp (2015)
  86. Caring Forthe Future With Archaeology (2017)
  87. Carissimo Salvatore: An Archaeological view of Italian Service Units at the Presidio of San Francisco (2015)
  88. ‘Carmelo’s Cabinet’: The Material Culture of Collections in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (2015)
  89. Carolina Slave Trade and Enslavement: Exploring Black Sacred Spaces, Shipwrecks, Shipyards, and Shipping Records (2023)
  90. Carpeted with Ammunition: Investigations of the Florence D shipwreck site, Northern Territory, Australia (2017)
  91. Carronade, Rudder, Ballast and Sheathing of the Anémone: characteristic or rarely observed elements (2023)
  92. Carrying Salmon to Scotland?: Late Norse Exploitation of Salmonid Fishes at Earl’s Bu, Orkney (2023)
  93. Carving a Kingdom from the Trunk of the Plantation Tree: Archaeology of the Hutchinson House and the Legacy of the "Black Kings" of Edisto Island (2022)
  94. Carving out Niches for Rest and Resistance: Landscape Adaptation Writ Small at the Slave Cabins of Kingsley Plantation (2018)
  95. Casa de Polvora – a gun powder factory site, Panelim, Goa, India (2013)
  96. A Case for Photogrammetry in Deepwater Archaeological Site Investigations (2020)
  97. A Case for STP Survey on Carribean Plantations: Stewart Castle, Jamaica (2017)
  98. A Case of a Missing House at Colonial Brunswick Town: The Rediscovery of the Wooten-Marnan Residence (2014)
  99. A Case of Spanish Barbery? - Revisiting The Obsidian Blades From The 1554 Wreck Of The San Esteban (41KN10) (2020)
  100. A Case Study in Collaborative Research: ECU’s 2019 Marshall Islands Field School (2020)