McKenna Litynski

Hello!  My name is McKenna Litynski, and I am a North American archaeologist and PhD student.  Some examples of my broad research interests include zooarchaeology, environmental archaeology, hunter-gatherers, and experimental archaeology. I received my undergraduate degree in 2021 from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with double majors in Environmental Studies and Anthropology and a minor in Museum Studies. Then, I headed west to the cowboy state to receive my M.A. in Anthropology at the University of Wyoming in 2023.  As a master’s student, I completed a thesis focused on analyzing the small animal remains from the La Prele Mammoth Site to reconstruct paleoenvironments and to test if people 12,900 years ago were cooking and consuming these jackrabbits, ground squirrels, voles, etc. as part of their subsistence. I am also actively involved in zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) research, which will be a critical component of my dissertation research.