Biography
My work focuses on technological practices as they related to community relationships and about how technologies help shape identities. I have worked primarily on 3rdmillennium BC pottery and art in western Europe, although I have studied ceramic technology more widely and my interests have extended to prehistoric lithic technology as well. I am also interested in ideas of the body and health as embedded social concepts in prehistory. I have conducted fieldwork in Belize, the eastern United States, Spain, The Channel Islands, southern and eastern England and Myanmar.
- 1991 BA in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- 1998 MA in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- 2002 Mphil in Archaeology, University of Cambridge
- 2008 PhD in Archaeology, University of Cambridge
- Commercial Archaeologist in USA 1992-1997
Research
- Material Culture
- Prehistoric technology
- Ceramics
- Archaeological theory
- The body and representation
- Ancient health
Key Publications
| [1] | Kohring, S. 2016. A case for the one-offs: improvisation and innovation with a Copper Age potting community. Submitted for review to Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 18 July 2015. |
| [2] | Kohring, S. 2014. Materiality, technology, and constructing social knowledge through bodily representations: a view from prehistoric Guernsey, Channel Islands. European Journal of Archaeology, 17(2): 248-263. DOI: 10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000055. |
Teaching and Supervisions
I teach on the Part I, ARC1 paper conducting their practicals, and the ceramic module for ARC2. I also teach on Part II ARC6 Archaeological Theory and Practice I. I do occasional lectures and teaching on the Later European Prehistory modules.
I am available for Part I ARC1 supervisions
Other Professional Activities
- A member of the EAA
- Director of Studies at Clare College, College Research Associate at Clare College
- Director of Studies for Part I Archaeology at Sidney Sussex
