Megan Conger at McNeil Center: Telling Time and Tracing Trade: Locating Indigenous and European Exchange Networks in 16th Century Ontario

Megan Anne Conger is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia in 2022. An archaeologist by training, Megan’s research examines the timing and tempo of Indigenous and European trade network expansion in the 16th and 17th century Lower Great Lakes, particularly around Lake Ontario. Her work interrogates the ways that chronology-building reinforces and subverts historical narratives about Indigenous experiences of colonization. Megan’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Society for American Archaeology, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, where she was a 2020-2021 Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow.

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