Michiko Chiura

Michiko Chiura, also Michiko Mori-Chiura, Japanese: 千浦美智子 (1947/48 - 1982) was a Japanese archaeologist, who was an early proponent of archaeological flotation in Japan. 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. She died aged 35 in 1982. Her death from cancer, and attitude to life, was written about by Shigeaki Hinohara, who was her physician.