Society for Historical Archaeology records
name: label: Creator
content: Society for Historical Archaeology
label: Correspondent
content: Armour, David A.
label: Correspondent
content: Campbell, J.D.
label: Correspondent
content: Cotter, John Lambert
label: Correspondent
content: Swannack, Jervis D.
label: Correspondent
content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
label: Correspondent
content: Pilling, Arnold R.
label: Correspondent
content: Little, J. Glenn
label: Correspondent
content: Sprague, Roderick
label: Correspondent
content: Rodeffer, Michael
label: Correspondent
content: Hanson, Lee H.
label: Correspondent
content: Foley, Vincent P.
label: Correspondent
content: Karklins, Karlis
label: Creator
content: Jelk, E.B.
label: Names
content: Society for Historical Archaeology
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Professional associations
label: Topic
content: Archeology, historical
creator: label: Creator
content: Society for Historical Archaeology
label: Correspondent
content: Armour, David A.
label: Correspondent
content: Campbell, J.D.
label: Correspondent
content: Cotter, John Lambert
label: Correspondent
content: Swannack, Jervis D.
label: Correspondent
content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
label: Correspondent
content: Pilling, Arnold R.
label: Correspondent
content: Little, J. Glenn
label: Correspondent
content: Sprague, Roderick
label: Correspondent
content: Rodeffer, Michael
label: Correspondent
content: Hanson, Lee H.
label: Correspondent
content: Foley, Vincent P.
label: Correspondent
content: Karklins, Karlis
label: Creator
content: Jelk, E.B.
abstract: label: Summary
content: This collection contains the records of the Society for Historical Archaeology and documents the activities of its officers and board of directors. Also included are copies of the SHA's publications.
bioghist: label: Historical note
content: As early as the 1950s, discussions were underway concerning the establishment of an organization dedicated to historical archaeology. In 1967, the Society for Historical Archaeology was founded at the International Conference on Historic Archaeology, which met in Dallas, Texas. The Society was incorporated in 1968 in Pennsylvania and its constitution was adopted that same year at the first annual meeting, with the stated mission of serving as "an educational organization to promote scholarly research in and dissemination of knowledge concerning historical archaeology." Its focus is "the era since the beginning of exploration of the non-European parts of the world by Europeans, with the prime concern in the western hemisphere."

The chief concerns of the society have included its annual meetings and publications. The latter are the scholarly Historical Archaeology and the Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter, which reports developments in the society and keeps members informed of news within the field. Since the early 1970s, the society has also become increasingly concerned with the qualifications and ethical behavior of historical archeologists and with government activities to protect historical sites and to promote scientific work at them.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1953-2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1974-30
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Letters
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Audiotapes
label: Type
content: Lists
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Portions of this collection are unprocessed. Please contact the archivist for further information. Earlier accessions, containing records dating from 1953-1979, have been arranged in the following proposed series:

(1) Organizational correspondence, 1966-1967; (2) presidents' correspondence, 1967-1976; (3) president-elects' correspondence, 1971, 1974-1975; (4) board of directors' correspondence, 1968-1974; (5) committee records, 1968-1977; (6) records relating to annual meetings, 1968-1977; (7) editors' correspondence, 1967-1974; (8) records relating to historical archeology, 1968-1975; (9) copies of Newsletter, 1968-1977; (10) secretary-treasurer's correspondence, 1969-1977; (11) membership correspondence, 1967-1977; (12) returned mail, 1971-1977; (13) invoices, 1967-1975; (14) miscellany, undated; (15) sound recording tapes and photographs, undated; (16) secretary-treasurer's records, 1967-1978; (17) Edward B. Jelk's records of early meetings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiotapes
label: Genre/Form
content: Lists