Keiko Kitagawa
Address:
Institute for Archaeological Sciences
Zooarchaeology Working Group
Hölderlinstraße 12
72074 Tübingen
&
Burgsteige 11
Room 111
72070 Tübingen
Tel. Nr. +49-(0)7071-29-72417
Research Focus
Dr. Kitagawa’s research focuses on the interaction of animals and humans through zooarchaeology and the study of the organic tool industry. The current project evolves around osseous tools from the Aurignacian period of the Swabian Jura integrating experimental archaeology and other analytical methods. She has also worked broadly in different regions of Europe as a faunal analyst, including in the Mediterranean region where she currently collaborates with the local researchers.
Research Interests
- Zooarchaeology: Human-animal interactions
- Osseous technology of the Middle Paleolithic and Aurignacian
- Experimental archaeology of bone tools
- Swabian Jura/Central Europe/Mediterranean Europe
Employment History
2022-2023 | Curator of Zooarchaeology Group, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment |
2016-2021 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow CRC/SFB1070 ResourceCultures, Dpt. of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany |
2020 | Curator of Zooarchaeology Group, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment |
2014-2016 | Post-doctoral Research Fellow Dpt. of Prehistory, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France |
2014 | Faunal Analyst Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg (State Office for Cultural Heritage Management), Germany |
2006-2008 | Teaching Assistant Dpt. of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA |
Education
2014 | Doctor of Philosophy with Magna Cum Laude in Prehistory and Protohistory, University of Tübingen, Germany |
2008 | Master of Science in Anthropology (Concentration: Archaeology) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA |
2005 | Bachelor of Arts with Magna Cum Laude in Anthropology New York University, New York, USA |
Teaching
2022, 2020 | Instructor, University of Tübingen. Osteology IV- Zooarchaeology |
2020-present | Co-Instructor, University of Tübingen. Osseous Raw Materials |
2021 | Co-Instructor, University of Tübingen. Experimental Archaeology with Osseous Materials |
2018-2020 | Co-Instructor, University of Tübingen. Experimental Archaeology: Working with Molly |
2011-2013 | Co-Instructor, University of Tübingen. Introduction to Bioarchaeology |
2008 | Instructor, University of New Mexico. Archaeological Method and Theory Laboratory |
Grants and Scholarships
2017 | Actions transversales du Muséum blanche Fund, National Museum of Natural History, France |
2014-2016 | Overseas Research Fellowships from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan/France |
2010-2014 | Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Graduate Scholarship, Germany |
2006-2008 | Binford Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico |
Selected Publications
2022 | Ranaldo, F., Massafra, D., Kitagawa, K. Neanderthals of Porto Selvaggio in the Mediterranean: Lithic industry of Grotta Torre dell'Alto (Nardò, Lecce - southern Italy). Journal of Quaternary Science. 37(2): 257-267. doi:10.1002/jqs.337 |
2022 | Suchan, T., Kusliy, M. A., Khan, N., Chauvey, L., Tonasso-Calvière, L., Schiavinato, S., Southon, J., Keller, M., Kitagawa, K., … Orlando, L. Performance and automation of ancient DNA capture with RNA hyRAD probes. Molecular Ecology Resources doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13518 |
2021 | Librado, P., et al. The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes. Nature 598(7882): 634–640 doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9 |
2020 | Starkovich, B. M., Cuthbertson, P., Kitagawa, K., Thompson, N., Konidaris, G. E., Rots, V., Münzel, S.C., Giusti, D., Schmid, V., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Lepers, C., Tourloukis, V. Minimal Tools, Maximal Meat: Explorative Experimental Butchery of an Elephant Foot Using Lower Paleolithic Stone Tool Technology. Ethnoarchaeology 12(2):118-147 doi:10.1080/19442890.2020.1864877 |
2020 | Kitagawa, K., Conard, N.J. Split-Based Points from the Swabian Jura highlight Aurignacian regional signatures. PLOS ONE 15: e0239865 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0239865 |
2018 | Rivals, F., Kitagawa, K., Julien, M.-A., Patou-Mathis, M., Bessudnov, A.A., Bessudnov, A.N. Straight from the horse's mouth: High-resolution proxies for the study of horse diet and its relation to the seasonal occupation patterns at Divnogor'ye 9 (Middle Don, Central Russia). Quaternary International 474: 146-155 doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.008 |
2018 | Kitagawa, K., Julien, M.-A., Krotova, O. O., Sablin, M. V., Bessudnov, A. A., Kiosak, D., Leonova, N., Plokhenko, B., Patou-Mathis, M. Glacial and post-glacial adaptations of hunter-gatherers: Investigating the late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic subsistence strategies in the southern steppe of Eastern Europe. Quaternary International 465:192-209 doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.005 |
2018 | Kitagawa, K., Münzel, S. C., Krönneck, P., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J. Explaining Diachronic Trends in Paleolithic Subsistence in Central Europe. pp 209-246. In Lemke, A. (Ed), Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity. Louisville: University Press of Colorado. muse.jhu.edu/book/63487 |
2017 | Posth, C., Wißing, C., Kitagawa, K., Pagani, L., van Holstein, L., Racimo, F., Wehrberger, K., Conard, N.J., Kind, C.J., Bocherens, H., Krause, J. 2017. Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals. Nature Communications 8:16046 doi: 10.1038/ncomms16046 |
2012 | Kitagawa, K., Krönneck, P., Conard, N.J. and Münzel, S.C. Exploring cave use and exploitation among cave bears, carnivores and hominins in the Swabian Jura, Germany. Journal of Taphonomy 10(3-4): 439-461. https://journaltaphonomy.com/volumen-10-issue-3-4-year-2012/ |