Karla Saracay
Education
BA in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest
California Archaeology, Historic Archaeology, Mexican Rancho Period, Contemporary Archeology
Profile
Karla Saracay earned her BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley in 2021. She worked at the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory from 2018-2022 working with the Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project’s (UMARP) legacy collection. Her BA thesis was focused on households and artifact distributions at the site of Umpamalka in Peru utilizing the data from the UMARP collections. Since then she has worked in environmental conservation, cultural resource management, and archaeological field school instruction. She has done work in the United States and South America but is now shifting her focus to California historic archaeology.
Field Experience
University of California, Berkeley Field School 2024 - Excavation Director
Pacific Legacy - Cultural Resource Specialist
Center for American Archaeology Field School - Field school Supervisor Intern (Women in Archaeology Internship)
Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project Jauja, Peru - Laboratory Assistant
Taraco Archeological Project Chiripa, Bolivia - Data Manager
Crow Canyon Archaeological Field School - Haynie Site, Colorado, USA
University of California Berkeley Field School - Sacsayhuaman Archaeological Park , Cusco, Peru
Advisors
Jason De León, Thomas Wake, Gregson Schachner