Zooarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology with Dr. Sarah McClure

This week we dive into a wide range of subjects with Dr. Sarah McClure, a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at UCSB. From her transition back to UCSB as a professor, her new role organizing and expanding UCSB's faunal collection, curating bones collected from PL Walker's lab, finding a love for anthropology, and shining a light on the badass empowering women in Anthropology. Dr. McClure's work encompasses examining faunal and human bones, examining diet and agriculture, and overarching environmental questions primarily working in the Mediterranean. Check out her most recent publication here which we discuss in the episode: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oa.2878. She also discusses her mentor Mindy Zeder, and her moto on how to succeed in academia "you have to be excellent and you have to be persistent."