Staff
Britt Starkovich, Zooarchaeologist
Britt Starkovich
Zooarchaeologist
505-827-6458
brittm.starkovich@state.nm.us
M.A., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2005
I had my first experience in archaeology when I was eleven, when I attended a summer camp at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in southwestern Colorado. The experience stuck, and I entered the University of Wyoming as an anthropology major in 1999. My undergraduate training was mostly in Paleoindian lithic studies in Wyoming and Colorado, but I was especially interested in Paleolithic Europe. The summer after my junior year was spent excavating at a Middle Paleolithic site in France.
I graduated with a B.A. in anthropology and B.S. in biology in 2003, and went on to graduate school at the University of Arizona. At Arizona, an interest in human subsistence patterns and my biology background led me to faunal studies. I have subsequently worked in Portugal, Turkey, and Greece on several sites dating anywhere from 100,000 to 4,000 years ago. I am currently working on my Ph.D. at the University of Arizona on the fauna from a Paleolithic cave site in Greece.
Life happened, and I recently moved to New Mexico, where I was hired at OAS to analyze faunal remains. I am currently studying Spanish colonial and territorial assemblages from the Santa Fe Railyard and Civic Center excavations. I am excited about the diversity of projects that I will have the opportunity to work on in the future, and find it ironic that I have "returned" to the Southwest years after my first archaeological experience.