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General
Researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS since 2025
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Working hours: Section: Islamic Archaeology Research Unit, Department of Islamic Civilization, Bioarchaeological Laboratory Room: A38 |
Specialization and research interests:
Zooarchaeology
Research interests:
Human-animal relations in past societies
Academic activity:
Chiori Kitagawa is a zooarchaeologist who studies human-animal relations by analysing osteofaunal remains, particularly from ancient Egypt. Since 2008, she has been working with The Asyut Project, an international archaeological fieldwork initiative in Asyut, Middle Egypt. Beyond Egypt, her research spans multiple geographic areas, including Japan, Turkey, Germany and Sudan. In addition to specialising in macroscopic analysis of osteofaunal remains, she collaborates with biomolecular specialists on micro-analyses of animal remains.
Projects
Publications
in press
Kitagawa, C., (in press). Beyond the Household Activities. Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the (ICAZ) Worked Bone Research Group Velico Turnovo, Bulgaria 2005.
2024
Kitagawa, C., 2024. Worked stone fragment from Tomb M12.3 in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi: a part of sarcophagus lid for a small animal, in: Kahl, J. et al, The Asyut Project: Sixteenth Season of Fieldwork (2022). Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 51: 161-163.
Kitagawa, C., Gakuhari, T., 2024. Zooarchaeological studies on canids and felids from ancient Egypt. The Archaeological Journal 796: 36-38 (in Japanese).
2023
Kitagawa, C., 2023. A rib to curse: taxonomic re-evaluation of the Coptic Magical Bone from Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (S05/46). in: Gerhards, S. et al. (eds.), Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden: Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven, Propylaeum, Heidelberg, pp. 254-259.
2021
Kitagawa, C., 2021. Worked mollusc remains from Qantir/Piramesse. in: van den Bercken, B. (ed.), Egyptian Delta Archaeology, Allard Pierson Series, Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 71-77.
2020
Prell, S., Kitagawa, C., 2020. The Bone Workshop of the Armoury from the Chariotry of Ramesses II in Qantir-Piramesse – a Case Study. in: Hodgkinson, A.K., Tvetmarken, C.L. (eds.), Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 39-49.
2019
Kitagawa, C., 2019. Mummies from the City of Canine Deities: An Analysis of Canid Osteofaunal Remains from the Tomb of the Dogs on Gebel Asyut al-Gharbi, Asyut, Middle Egypt. in: Ikram, S., Porcier, S., Pasquali, S. (eds.), Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky: Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, Sidestone press, Leiden, pp. 193-210.
2018
Booth, P., Bunbury, J., Del Vesco, P., Eschenbrenner-Diemer, G., Gabel, A.-C., Grajetzki, W., Kahl, J., Killian, A., Kitagawa, C., Korte, J., Landsberger, B., Michel, N., Pirelli, R., Verhoeven, U., Walz, T., 2018. Part Three: from Here to Eternity. in: Regulski, I./Golia, M. (eds.), Asyut: Guardian City, The British Museum, London, pp. 55-55.
2016
Kitagawa, C. (with contributions by Kahl, J./Vittmann, G.), 2016. The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. The Asyut Project 9, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.
Kitagawa, C., 2016. Mollusc remains. in: Kahl, J., Deppe, N., Goldsmith, D., Kilian, A., Kitagawa, C., Moje, J., Zöller-Engelhardt, M., Asyut, Tomb III: Objects. Part 1. The Asyut Project 3, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 329-332.
2013
Kitagawa, C., 2013. Tomb of the Dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (Middle Egypt, Late to Ptolemaic/Roman Period): preliminary results on the canid remains. in: De Cupere, B., Linseele. V., Hamilton-Dyer, S. (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East X: Proceedings of the tenth international Symposium on the Archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent Areas, Brussels 2011, , Peeters, Leuven, pp. 343-356.
2012
Kitagawa, C., 2012. Animal remains, in: Kahl, J. et al., The Asyut Project: Ninth Season of Fieldwork (2011). Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 41: 234-235.
2011
Kitagawa, C., 2011. Animal remains, in: Kahl, J. et al., The Asyut Project: Eighth Season of Fieldwork (2010). Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 40: 197-198.
2010
Kahl, J., Kitagawa, C., 2010. Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, Sokar 20: 77-81.
2009
Kitagawa, C., 2009. Comment on the cat burial from Tomb J2/89, in: Hartung, U. et al. Tell el-Faracîn-Buto, 10. Vorbericht. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 65: 151-158.
Kitagawa, C., 2009. The fauna materials from the surface survey in the central part of the Gebel Asyut al-gharbi, In: Kahl, J. et al., The Asyut Project: Sixth Season of Fieldwork (2008). Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 38: 113-130.
2008
Kitagawa, C., 2008. On the presence of deer in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 94: 209-222.
Kitagawa, C., 2008. The status of fallow deer in Ancient Egypt: autochthonous or introduced? in: Vila, E., Gourichon, L., Choyke, A.M., Buitenhuis, H. (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East VIII: Proceedings of the eighth international Symposium on the Archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas. Tome II, Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 49, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux, Lyon, pp. 541-552.
2007
von den Driesch, A., Kitagawa, C., 2007. III. Untersuchungen der Tierknochen, in: Hartung, U. et al. Tell el-Faracîn-Buto, 9. Vorbericht. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 63: 69-166.
2006
Berthold, J., Helle, J., Kitagawa, C., Peters, J., Strauch, F., 2006. Nordsee oder Mittelmeer? Römische Austern und andere Speiseabfälle einer gehobenen Küche aus den Thermengrabungen in der Colonia Ulpia Traiana. in: Xantener Berichte 14: Grabung-Forschung-Präsentation, Zabern, pp. 266-302.
2001
Kitagawa, C., 2001. Worked bones from Predynastic lower Egypt. Zooarchaeology 17: 113-126 (in Japanese).
2000
Nishimoto, T., Kitagawa, C., Takahashi, K., 2000. Lithic tools. Excavation at Rebun-cho Funadomari site-excavation in the 10th year of the Heisei era. Hokkaido: Rebun-cho Board of Education (in Japanese).
Miscellaneous
Kitagawa, C., 2023. Hares of ancient Egypt: at the beginning of the hare year 2023. Oriente 67: 13-16 (in Japanese).
Kitagawa, C., 2020. Rustic houses and rice fields in Yamaguchi. in: Toshiba Foundation, Japan Insight. https://doc.japan-insights.jp/pdf/JIN_REF_20200529132538.pdf
Kitagawa, C., 2020. Culture, Tradition and Innovation along the Rice-Road: the Yayoi Period Doigahama Site in Yamaguchi Prefecture. in: Toshiba Foundation, Japan Insight. https://doc.japan-insights.jp/pdf/JIN_TOPIC_20200526175243.pdf
Conferences
Presentations
2025
Bilateral seminar “Animal Cult in Ancient Egyptian Religion: Exploratory Workshop with Multidisciplinary Approaches”, 27-29.07.2025, The ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo, Japan, presentation: Kitagawa, C., D’Alfonso, R., Interplay of life and afterlife: Animal Mummification and Ritual Practice in Ancient Asyut. [invited lecture]
Conference “Poles on the Nile”, 9-11.06.2025, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, presentation: Wołodźko, P., Kitagawa, C., Archaeological analysis of the Gaza jar from Asyut, Egypt: contextual evidence from Nilotic fish remains.
Conference “XVIth meeting of Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas”, 26-28.05.2025, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns – Staatssammlung für Paläoanatomie München, Germany, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Shared life - in this world and in the afterlife: buried animals from two prestigious tombs of the Third Intermediate Period in Buto, Egypt.
2024
Colloquium “Annual Egyptological colloquium, Animal mummies: from beliefs to practice”, 31.10.-1.11.2024, The British Museum, London, UK, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Kahl, J., Born to be sacralised: life and death circumstances of canids in ancient Asyut. [invited lecture]
2023
Conference “65th Annual meeting of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan”, 28-29.10.2023, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Kitagawa, C., Kahl, J., Animal burials of Gebel Asyut al-gharbi.
Conference “Tuna Tag 2023”, 24.06.2023, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Gakuhari, T., Neue archäozoologische Untersuchungen in Mittelägypten. [invited lecture]
2022
Workshop “When entering uncharted territory... an Archaeology of the Late Dynastic Period and beyond”, 31.08.-02.09.2022. Wien University, Vienna, Austria, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Animal deposits in ancient Asyut. [invited lecture]
Symposium “Third International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt, the Middle Nile and their Hinterlands”, 15-17.06.2022, University of Naples «L’Orientale», Naples, Italy, presentation: Kahl, J., Kitagawa, C., Animal cult in ancient Asyut.
2020
Lecture, 27.1.2020, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany, lecture: Kitagawa, C., Environment and human activities in ancient Egypt: case studies on Asyut and Qantir. [invited lecture]
2019
Conference “Terra Incognita - Archaeological Fieldwork in Asyut and Middle Egypt”, 20-22.6.2019, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, presentation: Azab, W., Kitagawa, C., Ancient Egyptian animal mummies from Asyut: Chronicle of host-pathogen evolution. [invited lecture]
Conference “Excavating the Extra-Ordinary - Challenges & merits of working with small finds”, 8-9.4.2019, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany, presentation: Prell, S., Kitagawa, C., The bone workshop of the armoury of the chariotry of Ramesses II in Qantir-Piramesse.
2018
Workshop “Approaches in the Analysis of Production at Archaeological Sites”, 20-21.1.2018, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, presentation: Prell, S., Kitagawa, C., The bone workshop of the armoury of the chariotry of Ramesses II in Qantir-Piramesse.
2017
Colloquium “Uniformity and Regional Diversity in Ancient Religious Practice”, 27.10.2017, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Dog’s Life in Ancient Asyut: Animal Mummies and Remains from the Tomb of the Dogs at Gebel Asyut al-gharbi. [invited lecture]
Colloquium “The Annual Egyptological Colloquium: Asyut through time: conflict and culture in Middle Egypt”, 20-21.7.2017, The British Museum, London, UK, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Going to the dogs: canid mummies and faunal remains from the Tomb of the Dogs in Asyut. [invited lecture]
2016
Symposium “International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt”, 1-3.6.2016, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Analysis of non-human mummies and osteofaunal remains from the Tomb of the Dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi, Middle Egypt.
Conference “Sixth conference of the ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group, International council for archaeozoology”, 26-28.05.2016, Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Broken legs and lost teeth: canid mummies and osteofaunal remains with pathological features from the Tomb of the Dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi, Middle Egypt.
2011
Conference “Archaeozoology of the Near East X: The Tenth Meeting of Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas, International Council for Archaeozoology”, 28-30.06.2011, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, Brussels, Belgium, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Tomb of the Dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (Middle Egypt, Late to Ptolemaic/Roman Period).
2006
Conference “The Eighth Meeting of Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas”, 28.6.-1.7.2006, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France, presentation: Kitagawa, C., On the presence of Mesopotamian fallow deer in Ancient Egypt.
2005
Conference “The Eighth Meeting of Hungarian Archaeozoologists”, November 2005, Hungary, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Worked Bones from Ramessid Qantir/Piramesse, Egypt. [invited lecture]
Conference “The Fifth Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group, International Council for Archaeozoology”, August 2005, Regional Historical Museum in Veliko Turnovo, Velico Tarnovo, Bulgaria, presentation: Kitagawa, C., Beyond the Household Activities: Worked Bones from Ramessid Qantir, Egypt.
1999
Workshop “The fifth Zooarchaeology Workshop”, November 1999, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, presentation: Niimi, M., Kitagawa, C., Tanabe, K., Survey of chestnut yield and harvest period in Obara Village, Aichi Prefecture, Japan (in Japanese).
Posters
Conference “66th Annual meeting of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan”, 12-13.10.2024, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, poster presentation: Kitagawa, C., Marine molluscs of ancient Egypt: a case study from Gebel Asyut al-gharbi.
Conference “The fifteenth meeting of Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas”, 28.11.-2.12.2022, Tobunken: Tokyo National Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan, poster presentation: Kitagawa, C., Use of Horses in Qantir/Piramesse, New Kingdom Egypt.
Workshop “Ancient DNA techniques for zoonosis research”, 1.2.2018, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany, poster presentation: Azab, W., Kitagawa, C., Ancient Egyptian animal mummies: Host-pathogen evolution.
Popularization of science
January 2023, Kitagawa, C., Hare of ancient Egypt (Online lecture, The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo, Japan)
September 2022, Kitagawa, C., Animals of ancient Egypt and zooarchaeology (Japanese School in Cairo, lecture at the primary school, Cairo, Egypt)
October 2019, Creating the future of the region: potential for high-end inbound (Presentation at the symposium organised by the Toshiba International Foundation, Yamaguchi, Japan)
Scholarships, distinctions
Scholarship
2003-2005
DAAD Forschungsstipendium: Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Supervisors: Profs. J. Peters/A. von den Driesch)