Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded with the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology.

August 1, 2023

Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from The Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology.

The purpose of this award is to award the research about the archaeology and relevant studies concerning the West Asia including Egypt and neighbouring regions. The award recipient is selected from the author of a paper in the Journal of West Asian Archaeology and/or of an oral or poster paper in the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology in the fiscal year before the award granted. In this year, the paper titled ‘Regional Differences in Mortuary Practices during the Wādī Sūq Period in Southeast Arabia: Tomb Morphology and Geographical Conditions in the First Half of the Second Millennium BCE’ was awarded. The award ceremony was held at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology on June 25, 2023, in Hakuho University.

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