Grand Prize Award - Japanese Archaeological Association
Academic work
Discipline
Archaeology
Sub-discipline
Bioarchaeology
Institutions
Kyushu University
Kyoko Funahashi (in Japanese: 舟橋 京子) is a Japanese bioarchaeologist, who specialises in osteology in East Asia in prehistory.[1][2] She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Studies in Society and Culture at Kyushu University.[3] She has worked extensively on tooth extraction in the Jomon period and its relationships to social change and gender.[4][5] She was awarded the Grand Prize Award from the Japanese Archaeological Association in 2012, and had previously been awarded in 2011 the Kyushu Archaeological Society Award.[1]
Selected works
'Gender Expression from the Jomon to Yayoi Periods in Western Japan: A Case Study of Ritual Tooth Extraction' Japanese Journal of Archaeology 9 (2022): 145–172[6]
Miyamoto, K., Obata, H., Adachi, T., Amgalantgus, T., Funahashi, K., Gakuhari, T., ... & Yonemura, K. (2016). Excavations at Daram and Tevsh sites: A report on joint Mongolian-Japanese excavations in outer Mongolia.[7]
Yonemoto, Shiori, Tatsuro Adachi, Kyoko Funahashi, Nobuhiko Nakano, and Yasuhito Osanai. "The Strontium analysis on the human skeletal remains from the Emeelt Tolgoi Site and Bor Ovoo Site in Bayanhongor, Mongolia." (2018).[8]