There are many ways to find human connection across place, time, and cultures. One way is through the movement of material culture and people. Museum curator and archaeologist Aaron Miller will examine how the Northeast has always been connected in this way using his personal fieldwork experience at sites in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, and Maryland. Aaron will look at 17th- and 18th-century settlement patterns, trade networks (before and after European settlement), warfare, and how the current border between the United States and Canada limits our fuller understanding of the past.

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About the Presenter

Aaron Miller, PhD, is a museum curator and archaeologist with a background in the 17th- through 19th-century archaeology of northeastern North America. He holds an MA in anthropology and a PhD in historical archaeology from Memorial University of Newfoundland with fieldwork across the northeast. Aaron worked as a curator with the encyclopedic collection of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in Massachusetts for more than a decade and has been in his current position (Luce Curator of Exhibits & Collections) at the Abbe Museum since 2023.

This program is part of the Wilson Museum’s program series Connecting to Collections: Curiosity, Culture, Climate made possible through the generous support of Bangor Savings Bank.