Kyoko Funahashi (in Japanese: 舟橋 京子) is a Japanese bioarchaeologist, who specialises in osteology in East Asia in prehistory.
[1][2] She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Studies in Society and Culture at Kyushu University.
[3] She has worked extensively on tooth extraction in the Jomon period and its relationships to social change and gender.
[4][5] She was awarded the Grand Prize Award from the Japanese Archaeological Association in 2012, and had previously been awarded in 2011 the Kyushu Archaeological Society Award.
[1]