Society for Historical Archaeology

As the SHA celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2017, it seems appropriate to remember and reflect on those individuals who have made significant contributions to the discipline at large and to the...

The African Diaspora Archaeology volume is compiled by Chris Fennell, organizer of the African Diaspora Archaeological Network (ADAN): www.diaspora.uiuc.edu. This publication includes an introduction...

Approaches to Material Culture: Research for Historical Archaeologists - A Reader from Historical Archaeology. Brought to you by the Society for Historical Archaeology. Approaches to Material Culture...

Consisting of five articles by some of the leading lights of historical archaeology, this volume examines the cultural expressions of colonial settlement on both sides of the Atlantic. Compared...

A resource long needed in CRM.Cultural contexts and artifact identification tend to be the focus of archaeological education, with comparatively little emphasis on the actual materials that were used...

Most of the artifacts archaeologists uncover are utilitarian and mundane. However, artifacts are sometimes recovered that provide a surprising narrative or present an interpretive conundrum. The...

Glass bottles are one of the most ubiquitous finds on historic archaeological sites, no matter the locale. Hundreds of thousands of glass bottles have been recovered, and hundreds of thousands more...

All of the editors of this volume have often been occupied (if not preoccupied) with ceramic artifact identification and cataloguing.We have participated in workshops and symposia in several venues...

Archaeologists and historians trace the steps of Chinese railroad workers, find evidence of their daily lives, and work to keep the knowledge of their achievements alive for future generations...

This republication of Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things includes the original volume's contents: a Foreword by Stanley South and articles by Ferguson, Deetz, Binford,...

In this volume, various archaeologists offer their analyses and ideas on the importance of material things and the ways in which historical archaeology allows us to see the past differently, and...

25 articles that present archaeological analyses and interpretations on a variety of subjects from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland. The...

The potteries of the East Liverpool district were the largest domestic producers of ceramic wares between 1890 and 1940. This volume includes a brief history of the local pottery industry from its...

This introduction to Perspectives from Historical Archaeology: Investigations of Craft and Industrial Enterprise provides a summary of trends in the archaeology of craft and industrial enterprises...

This is the first effort to compile a Perspectives volume that represents published articles from both the SHA journal, Historical Archaeology and the ACUA Under- water Archaeology Proceedings. This...

A compilation by Richard F. Veit and Alasdair M. Brooks including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Investigative Methods, Places and Landscapes, "Small Things" Material Culture,...

Volumes II and III focus on the identification of different kinds of materials and are divided chronologically. Volume III focuses on materials produced and used mainly during the 19th and 20th...

The first part of Volume I includes a guide to further research, a new Primer on Historic Ceramics, discussions of the lifecourse of objects as they are used and reused, fragmentation and "missing"...

Perspectives from Historical Archaeology is a reader series providing collected articles from the journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). Published since 1967, Historical Archaeology...

A compilation by Christopher C. Fennell including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Methods and Cartographies of Analysis, Terrains Shaped by Economics, Class, and Social...

Volumes II and III focus on the identification of different kinds of materials and are divided chronologically. Volume II focuses on earlier materials, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, but...

Ships' Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Site Formation ProcessAuthor: Nathan RichardsPublisher: Society for Historical ArchaeologyPublication Date: Feb 18, 2022Number of Pages:...

A Reader from Historical Archaeology - Studies in Material Culture Research - This volume is brought to you by the Society for Historical Archaeology, and offered for print by Ingram and Amazon...

An illustrated historical children's book about the Abercorn Archaeology Site in Savannah, Georgia (9CH1205). It tells two stories back-to-back. One is the story of Enitan, an African American girl...

Although the labor of the Chinese workers who built the first transcontinental railroad (and other railroads in the western part of the country) was pivotal to the development of the United States,...

A compilation by Timothy K. Perttula including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Colonial Perspectives, The Effects of Introduced Epidemic Diseases, and Case Studies in North...

A compilation by Nicholas Honerkamp including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Plantation Landscapes, Plantation Architecture, Social Status and Ethnicity on the Plantation,...

A compilation by Steve A. Tomka and Timothy K. Perttula including articles from Historical Archaeology. Topics include Theoretical Perspectives and Approaches, Context and Process of Material...

The Other Dixwells (Author's Edition): Commerce and Conscience in an American FamilyAuthor: Thomas N. LaytonPublisher: Society for Historical ArchaeologyPublication Date: Apr 09, 2021Number of Pages:...

Maritime archaeology has become a burgeoning discipline with well-established post-graduate university programs providing specialized training for conducting scientific archaeology underwater, and...