Michiko Chiura

Michiko Chiura
千浦美智子
Born1947/48
Died1982
EducationUniversity of Toronto
OccupationArchaeologist
EmployerInternational Christian University
Known forPioneering the study of coprolites in Japan

Michiko Chiura, also Michiko Mori-Chiura, Japanese: 千浦美智子 (1947/48 - 1982) was a Japanese archaeologist, who was an early proponent of archaeological flotation in Japan. In the 1970s she pioneered the study of coprolites in Japan, with particular focus on those from the Torihama shell mound in Fukui Prefecture. Chiura studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, then subsequently worked at the International Christian University in Tokyo. She died aged 35 in 1982. Her death from cancer, and attitude to life, was written about by Shigeaki Hinohara, who was her physician.

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)". tspace.library.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  2. 1 2 "Excavations, flotation, palaeoethnobotany etc". w3.utm.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  3. ↑ "030西広貝塚から出土した縄文時代のウンコ（糞石）|市原歴史博物館". www.imuseum.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  4. ↑ Kidder, J. Edward (2007-02-28), "Acknowledgments", Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai, University of Hawaii Press, pp. ix–x, doi:10.1515/9780824862848-003, ISBN 978-0-8248-6284-8, archived from the original on 2025-02-22, retrieved 2024-10-02
  5. ↑ 日野原重明 (1983). 死をどう生きたか: 私の心に残る人びと (in Japanese). 中央公論社. ISBN 978-4-12-100686-8.