Welcome to the "Research Resources" pages at sha.org. We created these pages to highlight resources whose content are SHA-approved, but are not necessarily created and copy edited to conform with SHA style and format.
Conservation FAQs and Facts
This module is intended both to provide answers to commonly asked questions and to serve as a resource kit. It was created in response to queries received from archaeologists.
Curation Standards
Standards and guidelines developed by The Society for Historical Archaeology with the explicit goals of permitting the long-term preservation of archaeological collections and maintaining their research and public education values.
Historic Bottle Identification
This is a cooperative effort intended to provide users with a practical tool for historic bottle identification.
Parks Canada Resources
This is a cooperative effort intended to provide users with a series of useful Parks Canada publications. Parks Canada retains copyright of its publications, and they are made available here, courtesy of Parks Canada.
Newsletter Articles
These articles are excerpted from the SHA's quarterly newsletter. They provide a venue for sharing methods and results of historical archaeological projects
Online Bibliographies
Bibliographies provide an excellent way of organizing previous research, and assist researchers in locating sometimes hard-to-find references.
Be sure to visit the SHA Publications pages, too.
For additional research resources that have been peer-reviewed and copy edited to SHA style, please visit the Publications pages and view the options available under SHA Online (http://www.sha.org/publications/ha-sha/default.htm), including past SHA Journal articles, Guides to Literature, Special Publications, and Underwater Archaeology Proceedings.
In addition, please see the Technical Briefs (http://www.sha.org/publications/technical_briefs/default.htm") on the Publications pages. Technical Briefs in Historical Archaeology is an electronic peer-reviewed publication series devoted to the fast dissemination of shorter specialized technical papers in historical archaeology, maritime archaeology, material culture technology and materials conservation. Book reviews published in Historical Archaeology during 2006 (vol. 40, nos. 2, and 4) were posted on the SHA
