Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Nerissa Russell
Associate Professor,
Anthropology
Academia.edu

nr29@cornell.edu
607.255.6790
203 Mc Graw Hall
Education
  • Harvard University, Anthropology, B.A. 1980
  • University of California at Berkeley, Anthropology, M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1993
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University – 1998 to present
  • Mississippi State University - 1 semester
  • Sonoma State University – 1 semester
  • UCLA – 1 quarter, Armstrong University – 1 semester
  • University of California at Berkeley – 7 years
 
Research Interests
Zooarchaeology, bone technology, origins of agriculture, eastern Europe, Near East
 
Research Experience
Faunal analysis: Opovo (Serbia), Konispol (Albania), Samara Valley Project (Russia), Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Bone tools: Selevac (Serbia), Mehrgarh (Pakistan)
 
Selected Publications
2008 Katheryn C. Twiss, Amy Bogaard, Doru Bogdan, Tristan Carter, Michael P. Charles, Shahina Farid, Nerissa Russell, Mirjana Stevanoviç, E. Nurcan Yalman, and Lisa Yeomans. Arson or accident? The burning of a Neolithic house at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Journal of Field Archaeology 33(1):41-57.
2007 The domestication of anthropology. In Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered. R. Cassidy and M. H. Mullin, eds. Pp. 27-48. Oxford: Berg.
2006 Nerissa Russell and Bleda S. Düring. Worthy is the lamb: A double burial at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Paléorient 32(1):73-84.
2006 Nerissa Russell and Stephanie Meece. Animal representations and animal remains at Çatalhöyük. IN Çatalhöyük Perspectives: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 209-230. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2006 The Çatalhöyük worked bone. IN Changing Materialities at Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 339-367. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2005 Nerissa Russell, Louise Martin, and Hijlke Buitenhuis. Cattle domestication at Çatalhöyük revisited. Current Anthropology 46(5):S101-S108.
2005 Nerissa Russell and Louise Martin. The Çatalhöyük mammal remains. IN Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-1999 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 33-98. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2005 Nerissa Russell and Kevin McGowan. The Çatalhöyük bird bones. IN Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-1999 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 99-110. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2004 Livestock of the early farmers. In Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.–A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World. P. I. Bogucki and P. J. Crabtree, eds. Pp. 211-217. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribner.
2004 Milk, wool, and traction: Secondary animal products. In Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.–A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World. P. I. Bogucki and P. J. Crabtree, eds. Pp. 325-333. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribner.
2003 Nerissa Russell and Kevin J. McGowan. Dance of the Cranes: Crane symbolism at Çatalhöyük and beyond. Antiquity 77(297):445-455.
2002 The wild side of animal domestication. Society and Animals 10(3):285-302.
2001 The social life of bone: A preliminary assessment of bone tool manufacture and discard at Çatalhöyük. IN Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group. A. Choyke, ed. Pp. 241-249. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2001 Neolithic relations of production: Insights from the bone tool industry. IN Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group. A. Choyke, ed. Pp. 271-280. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2000 Louise Martin and Nerissa Russell. Trashing Rubbish. IN Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: The Example at Çatalhöyük. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 57-69. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
1998 Cattle as wealth in Neolithic Europe: Where’s the beef? IN The Archaeology of Value: Essays on Prestige and the Processes of Valuation. D. W. Bailey, ed. Pp. 42-54. British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 730. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.