Near Annapolis, Maryland, a former tobacco plantation dating to the 1730s holds centuries of untold history. In "Belvoir: An Archaeology of Maryland Slavery," Schablitsky leads readers on an archaeological narrative to unearth the lives and stories still buried there.Read More

Tensions between salvors and archaeologists. Questions of what archaeology can contribute beyond the documentary record. These are debates that have bedeviled maritime archaeology for more than half a century. "Wreck Divers and Archaeologists" tackles these issues.Read More

Ships’ Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Site Formation Process April 5, 2022 Submitted by Mary L. Maniery PAR Environmental Services, Inc., President SHA Co-Publications Associate Editor In March 2018, the SHA began a blog for the Society webpage to highlight our publications and our collaboration with various presses. While our co-publication program and partnerships...Read More

by John M. Chenoweth Historical archaeologists engage with religion and ideology when excavating sites of worship or burial, but considering how central religion has been to many people over the last few centuries, this facet of human identity has sometimes gotten lost in the shuffle.  A recent collection of papers published in Historical Archaeology foregrounds...Read More

Submitted by Mary L. Maniery PAR Environmental Services, Inc., President SHA Co-Publications Associate In March 2018, the SHA began a blog for the Society webpage to highlight our collaboration with various presses, including volumes published in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Press, Omaha.  The co-publication program expands our membership’s publication opportunities.  University of Florida...Read More

September 8, 2021 Submitted by Mary L. Maniery PAR Environmental Services, Inc., President SHA Co-Publications Associate In March 2018, the SHA began a blog for the Society webpage to highlight our collaboration with various presses, including volumes published in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Press, Omaha (UNP).  The co-publication program expands our membership’s publication...Read More

We are happy to announce the next issue of Historical Archaeology will be arriving in your mailboxes soon! Here’s a preview of some of the content from the guest editor of the thematic collection on Historical Bioarchaeology, Shannon A. Novak. Not only materials suffer the cuts and blows of the maker’s practice. For every strike or punch...Read More

  We are happy to announce the next issue of Historical Archaeology will be arriving in your mailboxes soon! Here’s a preview of some of the content from the guest editor of the thematic collection on Rethinking the Archaeology of Capitalism, Guido Pezzarossi. What if capitalism were not an entire system of economy or a...Read More

The upcoming Thematic Collection of Historical Archaeology (53:3) takes Western Massachusetts as an archaeological research subject, a source of poetic inspiration and ideological struggle, and a locale of critical investigation. In the 19th century, the region was aesthetically re-cast as a romantic “garden of the north” by White Euro-American writers and visitors. The emotional color of...Read More

By Lydia Wilson Marshall Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, DePauw University While knee-deep in your dissertation, it’s easy to let publishing plans fall by the wayside. You might think, “How can I possibly do one more thing?” or “Let me finish my degree first and I’ll worry about the rest later.” However, students...Read More