Michiko Chiura

Michiko Chiura, also Michiko Mori-Chiura, Japanese: 千浦美智子 (1947/48 - 1982 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. Her death from cancer, and attitude to life, was written about by Shigeaki Hinohara, who was her physician.

Selected works

千浦美智子. "環境復原とフロテーション その植物利用範囲." 季刊どるめん 13 (1977): 32-40. 中津由紀子, 千浦美智子, and 小田静夫. "J・E・ キダー編 (1977) 新橋遺跡." 国際基督教大学考古学研究センター 4: 1-214.