Sarah Paris

Dr Sarah Paris earned her BA in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Manchester, followed by an MSc in Skeletal and Dental Bioarchaeology at University College London. She began her career as a commercial field archaeologist and later established an osteology laboratory. She then completed her doctorate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where her doctoral research explored taphonomy and the prehistoric use of ochre in burials at Khok Phanom Di, central Thailand (dating to 4,000-3,500 BP). After teaching roles at Anglia Ruskin University and a Senior Teaching Associate position at Cambridge, in 2023 she joined the Palaeoanthropology Workgroup at the University of Tübingen as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the evolution of hominin behaviour. In 2025, she returned to Cambridge as a Research Associate for the Ng’ipalajem ERC Project, led by Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr, examining Pleistocene hominin fossils from the Turkana Basin and beyond to understand adaptive and phylogenetic changes over the past 1-1.5 million years.