• Ways that Past Peoples Have Used Animals and their Products to Construct Social Relationships
• Analyzing Mammal Bones, Bone Tools, and Bird Bones
• Feasting
• Meat Sharing
• Animal Wealth
• Symbolic Role of Animals

Russell, Nerissa

2012    Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Russell, Nerissa

2012    Hunting sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük.  In Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East.  A. Porter and G. M. Schwartz, eds.  Pp. 79-95.  Warsaw, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Russell, Nerissa, and Amy Bogaard

2010    Subsistence actions at Çatalhöyük. In Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East: New Paths Forward. S. R. Steadman and J. C. Ross, eds. Pp. 63-79. London: Equinox.

Russell, Nerissa, Louise Martin, and Katheryn C. Twiss

2009    Building memories: Commemorative deposits at Çatalhöyük. In Zooarchaeology and the Reconstruction of Cultural Systems: Case Studies from the Old World. B. S. Arbuckle, C. A. Makarewicz, and A. L. Atici, eds. Pp. 103-125. Anthropozoologica. Paris: L'Homme et l'Animal, Société de Recherche Interdisciplinaire.

Twiss, Katheryn C., and Nerissa Russell

2009    Taking the bull by the horns: Cattle horns at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Paléorient 35(2):19-32.

Russell, Nerissa

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.

Russell, Nerissa, and Bleda S. Düring

2006    Worthy is the lamb: A double burial at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Paléorient 32(1):73-84.

Russell, Nerissa, and Stephanie Meece

2006    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.

Russell, Nerissa, and Louise Martin

2005    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.

Russell, Nerissa, Louise Martin, and Hijlke Buitenhuis

2005    Cattle domestication at Çatalhöyük revisited. Current Anthropology 46(5):S101-S108.

Russell, Nerissa, and Kevin J. McGowan

2003    Dance of the cranes: Crane symbolism at Çatalhöyük and beyond. Antiquity 77(297):445-455.

Russell, Nerissa

2002    The wild side of animal domestication. Society and Animals 10(3):285-302.