Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Nerissa Russell
Associate Professor,
Anthropology

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 – 6 years
  • 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
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.