Kyoko Funahashi

The native form of this personal name is Funahashi Kyōko. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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]

Kyoko Funahashi
舟橋 京子
Occupation	Bioarchaeologist
Awards	Grand Prize Award - Japanese Archaeological Association
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Bioarchaeology
Institutions	Kyushu University

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]