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Students! You may be asking yourself: “What exactly is the Past Presidents’ Student Reception?”, “Will the reception still be happening this year?”, or “How do I participate?”  Well, this is the blog post to answer all of your questions. “What exactly is the Past Presidents’ Student Reception?” In years before the pandemic, where we could meet...Read More

Well hello there, fellow archaeology grad student or other interested reader! In this three-part blog series, I will be providing practical advice for using archaeological collections for your PhD dissertation, MA Thesis, or other graduate student work. This is based on my personal experience, the experiences of colleagues, and collective advice I’ve gathered from mentors. In...Read More

Jeff Altschul, Co-President, Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis Terry Klein, Acting Executive Director, Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis We wanted to alert Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) members about a recent publication from the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS)-sponsored People, Fire, and Pine Research Project.  The Society for Historical Archaeology is a CfAS Partner. Evan R. Larson, Kurt...Read More

By Lindsey Cochran, Ph.D. University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology Emotionally disheartening article ahead. Beware. Scientists continue to improve models that predict both the mechanism and result of climate changes, and sadly each prediction is more dire than the last. Modeling predictions that used to assume a 1m global sea level rise (GMSLR) now anticipate at...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 recoils,...Read More