Chiori Kitagawa

Affiliation: Adjunct professor, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences
                   Institute of Egyptology, Freie Universität Berlin
Job Class: Visiting Fellow
Specialty: Zooarchaeology, Egyptian Archaeology


Research Topic

History of human animal interactions, Animals in ancient Egypt


Selected Publications

  • 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 J. Kahl et al., The Asyut Project : Sixteenth Season of Fiekldwork (2022), Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 51.
  • Kitagawa, C. 2023. A rib to curse: taxonomic re-evaluation of the Coptic Magical Bone from Gebel Asyut al-gharbi(S05/46). In S. Gerhards et al. (eds.), Schöne Denkmäler sind entstanden: Studien zu Ehren von Ursula Verhoeven, pp. 254-259. Propylaeum. (PDF)
  • Kitagawa, C. 2021. Worked mollusc remains from Qantir/Piramesse. In B. van den Bercken (ed.), Egyptian Delta Archaeology, Allard Pierson Series, pp. 71-77. (PDF)
  • Prell, S. and C. Kitagawa 2020. The Bone Workshop of the Armoury from the Chariotry of Ramesses II in Qantir-Piramesse – a Case Study. In A. K. Hodgkinson and C. L. Tvetmarken (eds.), Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites, pp. 39-49. Oxford, Archaeopress. (PDF)
  • 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 S. Ikram, S. Porcier and S, Pasquali (eds.), Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky: Essays on Animals in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, pp. 193-210. Leiden, Sidestone press. (PDF)

Gebel Asyut al-gharbi Examination of osteofaunal remains of canids (S12/st1512E; ©︎The Asyut Project)
Photo 1: Gebel Asyut al-gharbi Examination of osteofaunal remains of canids (S12/st1512E; ©︎The Asyut Project)


Photo 2: View of the city of Asyut and the Nile from Gebel Asyut al-gharbi (©︎The Asyut Project)