Kyoko Funahashi (in

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

: 舟橋京子) is a Japanese

bioarchaeologist Bioarchaeology (osteoarchaeology, osteology or palaeo-osteology) in Europe describes the study of biological remains from archaeological sites. In the United States it is the scientific study of human remains from archaeological sites. The term w ...

, who specialises in

osteology Osteology () is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists . A subdiscipline of anatomy, anthropology, archaeology and paleontology, osteology is the detailed study of the structure of bones, skeletal elements, teeth, microbone mo ...

in East Asia in prehistory. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Studies in Society and Culture at

Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a public research university located in Fukuoka, Japan, on the island of Kyushu. Founded in 1911 as the fourth Imperial University in Japan, it has been recognised as a leading institution of higher education and resear ...

. She has worked extensively on

tooth extraction A dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental alveolus (socket) in the alveolar bone. Extractions are performed for a wide variety of reas ...

in the Jomon period and its relationships to social change and gender. 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.

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 * 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. * 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).{{Citation , last1=Miyamoto , first1=Kazuo , title=Excavations at Emeelt Tolgoi Site: The third Report on Joint Mongolian-Japanese Excavations in Outer Mongolia , date=2018 , url=https://doi.org/10.15017/2230960 , access-date=2024-10-07 , language=en , doi=10.15017/2230960 , last2=Adachi , first2=Tatsuro , last3=Amgalantgus , first3=Tsend , last4=Batbold , first4=Natsag , last5=Bazargur , first5=Dashzeveg , last6=Delgermaa , first6=Lhagvadorj , last7=Funahashi , first7=Kyoko , last8=Matsumoto , first8=Keita , last9=Nakano , first9=Nobuhiko, publisher=Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Japanese women archaeologists Kyushu University alumni Prehistorians Bioarchaeologists Living people