Education

2021

PhD

C. Kitagawa., Environment and human activities in ancient Egypt- subsistence and beyond-: with a focus on the analysis of osteofaunal remains from Qantir, eastern Delta. Nagoya University, Japan.

2003-2006

Scholarship: Institute of Palaeoanatomy and History of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig- Maximilians-University, Munich.

2001-2002

University of London (UCL), M.A. in Egyptian Archaeology.

1999-2005

Nagoya University, Aichi. Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology.

Title: Animals of the New Kingdom Capital of Piramesse/ Qantir (North eastern Delta, Egypt). (Close to submission)

1996-1999

Nanzan University, Aichi. M.A. in Archaeology.

1994-1996

Nagoya University, Aichi. Archaeology.

1990-1994

Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. B.A. in History.

M.A. theses

2002

Review and Re-evaluation in Zooarchaeological Studies in Prehistoric Egypt: From the Palaeolithic to the Predynastic Period. UCL Institute of Archaeology, University of London. M.A. in Egyptian Archaeology.

1999

Bone artefacts from Predynastic Lower Egypt. Nanzan University, Nagoya. M.A. in Archaeology.

B.A. thesis

1994

Egypt in the modern history of England. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. B.A. in history.

Offices

2009

January- present, The Asyut project (Johannes-Gutenberg-University,

Mainz)

2008

August-September, The Asyut project (Johannes-Gutenberg-University,

Mainz)

April-July, Part-time Lecturer (Cultural Anthropology/ Meijo University,

Anthropology/Sugiyama-Jogakuen University)

2005

April-2008 March, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research

Fellow

Scholarship

2005-2007

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Nagoya University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

2003-2005

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

2001

The Japan Science Society, research grant

Taiko Foundation, research grant

Fieldwork Experience

2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016 Asyut (Upper Egypt); 2007 Sudan, field research on Nile fish; 2006 Abydos (Upper Egypt); 2005/ 2008 Buto (western Delta, Egypt); 2004-2006 Elephantine (Upper Egypt); 2001-2004/ 2008 Qantir (eastern Delta, Egypt); 2001 Kaman Kalehöyük (Anatolia, Turkey); 2000 Tell Ibrahim Awad (eastern Delta, Egypt); 1998-1999 Nakajo (Aichi prefecture, Japan）; 1998 Funadomari (Rebun island, Japan）; 1997 Takakura (Aichi prefecture, Japan); 1996 Mirokuji-osaruzuka (Aichi prefecture, Japan）; 1994 Shimouchihashi (Aichi prefecture, Japan); 1994 Niwata shell midden (Gifu prefecture, Japan)

research interests:

Zooarchaeology, Human-animal interactions

• 2000 Nishimoto, T., Kitagawa, C. & K. Takahashi, Lithic tools. Excavation at Rebun-cho Funadomari site-excavation in the 10 year of the Heisei era. (in Japanisch)
• 2000 Ito, A., Hara, K., Koyama, M. & C. Kitagawa, Excavation at Takakura site and Tatemitsukura site. (in Japanisch)
• 2001 Kitagawa, C., Predynastic bone tools from Lower Egypt. Zooarchaeology 17: 113-126. (in Japanisch)
• 2006 Berthold, J. Helle, J., Kitagawa, C., Peters, J. & F. Strauch., Nordsee oder Mittelmeer? Römische Austern und andere Speiseabfälle einer gehobenen Küche aus den Thermengrabungen in der Colonia Ulpia Traiana, in: Xantener Berichte: Grabung-Forschung-Präsentation. pp.266-302. Mainz am Rhein: Zabern.
• 2006 Kitagawa, C., Zooarchaeology and fieldwork in Egypt. Metaptyxiaka 1:35-43. (in Japanisch)
• 2007 von den Driesch, A. &  Kitagawa, C., Untersuchungen der Tierknochenfunde, in: Hartung, U. et al., Tell el-Faracin-Buto, 9. Vorbericht. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 63: 151-158.
• 2008 Kitagawa, C., On the presence of deer in Ancient Egypt: analysis of the osteological record. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 94: 209-222.
• 2008 Kitagawa, C., The status of fallow deer in Ancient Egypt: autochthonous or introduced? in: E. Vila, L. Gourichon, A.M. Choyke & H. Buitenhuis (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, Lyon, France 2008: 541-552.
• 2009 Kitagawa, C., 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 Ägyptischen Altägyptischen Kultur 38: 122-129.
• 2009 Kitagawa, C., Comment on the cat burial from Tomb J2/89, in: Hartung, U. et al., Tell el-Faracin-Buto, 10. Vorbericht. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 65: 151-158.
• 2010 Kahl, J. & C. Kitagawa, Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, Sokar 20: 75-79.
• 2011 Kitagawa, C., Animal Remains, in: Kahl, J. et al., The Asyut Project: Eighth Season of Fieldwork (2010). Studien zur Ägyptischen Altägyptischen Kultur 40: 197-198.
• 2013 Kitagawa, C., Tomb of the Dogs in Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (Middle Egypt, Late to Ptolemaic/Roman Period): preliminary results on the canid remains, in: W. van Neer & V. Linseele (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East X: Proceedings of the tenth international Symposium on the Archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas: 343-356.
• 2016 Kitagawa, C. (co-authors: Jochem Kahl, Günter Vittmann), The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects, The Asyut Project 9, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
• 2016 Kitagawa, C. (co-authors: Jochem Kahl, Nadine Deppe, Dora Goldsmith, Andrea Kilian, Chiori Kitagawa, Jan Moje, Monika Zöller-Engelhardt). Asyut, Tomb III: Objects. Part 1, The Asyut Project 3, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag: 329-322.
• 2016 Kitagawa, C., Mollusc Remains, in: J. Kahl, N. Deppe, D. Goldsmith, A. Kilian, J. Moje & M. Zöller-Engelhardt, Asyut, Tomb III: Objects. Part 1, The Asyut Project 3, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag: 329-332.
• 2018 (Co-autors: Booth, P., Bunbury, J., Del Vesco, O., Eschenbrenner-Diemer, G., Gabel, A.-C., Grajetzki, W., Kilian, A., Kitagawa, C., Korte, J., Landsberger, B., Michel, N., Pirelli, R., Verhoeven, U. & T. Waltz), in: I. Regulski & M. Golia (eds.), Asyut: Guardian City, The British Museum London.

Manuskript in press

• Kitagawa, C., 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: S. Ikram & A. J.Veldmeijer (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt, in press.  
• Kitagawa, C., Beyond the Household Activities. Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the (ICAZ) Worked Bone Research Group Velico Turnovo, Bulgaria 2005, in Druck.