Samantha Sanft

Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Sanft, Samantha M.
2021            The Circulation of Shell and Copper Objects in the circa 1450-1600 Haudenosaunee Homeland. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Birch, Jennifer, Sturt W. Manning, Samantha Sanft, Megan A. Conger
*2021            Refined Radiocarbon Chronologies for Northern Iroquoian Site Sequences: Implications for Coalescence, Conflict, and the Reception of European Goods. American Antiquity 86(1):61-89.

Sanft, Samantha M.
2020            Funk Foundation Final Report: Radiocarbon Re-Dating and Bayesian Chronological Modeling, 16th Century Cayuga-Region Sites. Report on file, Funk Foundation. Ballston Spa, New York.

Manning, Sturt W., Jennifer Birch, Megan A. Conger, Samantha Sanft
*2020             Resolving Time Among Non-Stratified Short-Duration Contexts on a Radiocarbon Plateau: Possibilities and Challenges from the AD 1480-1630 Example and Northeastern North America. Radiocarbon 62(6):1785-1807.

Samantha M. Sanft
2020             Dating the Circulation of Shell and Copper Beads in the Fifteenth- through Seventeenth-Century Northeast. The SAA Archaeological Record 20(4):62-66.

Birch, Jennifer, Sturt W. Manning, Megan A. Conger, Samantha Sanft
2020             Introduction: Why are we Dating Iroquoia? Building chronologies to write enhanced archaeological histories. The SAA Archaeological Record 20(4):38-39.

Manning, Sturt W., Jennifer Birch, Megan A. Conger, Michael W. Dee, Carol Griggs, Carla S. Hadden, Alan G. Hogg, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Samantha Sanft, Peter Steier, Eva M. Wild
*2018            Radiocarbon Re-dating of Contact Era Iroquoian History in Northeastern North America. Science Advances 4(12). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0280.

Sanft, Samantha M.
*2018             Beads and Pendants from Indian Fort Road: Native Cultural Continuity and Innovation in the Sixteenth Century Haudenosaunee Homeland. Northeast Anthropology 85-86:1-20.

Sanft, Samantha M.
2013            Beads and Pendants from Indian Fort Road: A Sixteenth Century Cayuga Site in Tompkins County, New York. M.A. Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

*peer-reviewed publications

Klarman Hall
sms625@cornell.edu

Education

PhD in Anthropology, Cornell University, 2021

Departments and programs

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Thomas Peter Volman

Retired Associate Professor

Publications

Excavation of buried Late Acheulean (Mid-Quaternary) land surfaces at Duinefontein 2, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science.  30:955-971. 2003

First excavation of intact Middle Stone Age layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: Implications for Middle Stone Age ecology. Journal of Archaeological Science.  30:559-575. 2003

Klarman Hall
tpv1@cornell.edu

Education

  • B.A., (Anthropology), University of Chicago, 1967
  • M.A., (Anthropology), University of Chicago, 1975
  • Ph.D., (Anthropology), University of Chicago, 1981
  • M.A., (Education), Roosevelt University, 1971

Departments and programs

Matthew Velasco

Assistant Professor

Klarman Hall
210 McGraw Hall
mcv47@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, 2016.

Departments and programs

Adam T. Smith

Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

  • 2016 Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: Rethinking Community and Temporality in Eurasian Archaeology. Co-edited with L. Khatchadourian, K. Weber, E. Hite). Brill Academic Publishers.
  • 2015 The Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • 2012 The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions.  Co-edited with Charles Hartley and G. Bike Yazıcıoğlu. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • 2009 The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies I: The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia (with R. Badalyan and P. Avetisyan).  Oriental Institute Press, Chicago.
  • 2007 Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology.  Co-edited with L. Popova and C. Hartley.  Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle.
  • 2006 Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology.  Co-edited with D. Peterson and L. Popova.  Colloquia Pontica Series.  Brill, Leiden.
  • 2003 The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities.  The University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • 2003 Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond.  Co-edited with K. Rubinson.  The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Publications at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Select Articles:

  • 2023 Monitoring Heritage at Risk: Caucasus Heritage Watch and the Armenian Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh (with L. Khatchadourian and I. Lindsay). Systemizing the Past, edited by Y. Grekyan and A. Bobokhyan, pp. 428-439. Archaeopress, Oxford.
  • 2022 Unseeing the Past: Archaeology and the Legacy of the Armenian Genocide. Current Anthropology 63(S25):S56-S71.
  • 2022 Civilization Machines: Value and Recognition on the Armenian Highland from the Bronze Age to Today. Scottish Archaeological Journal 44(1): 64-87.
  • *2020    Bronze Age Metaphysics. In Constructing Kurgans: Burial Mounds and Funerary Customs in the Caucasus, Northwestern Iran, and Eastern Anatolia in the Bronze and Iron Age, edited by N. Laneri, G. Palumbi, and S. M. Celka, pp. 1-20. Studies on the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean, Florence.
  • *2018    A New Chronological Model for the Bronze and Iron Age Caucasus (with S. Manning, L. Khatchadourian, R. Badalyan, I. Lindsay, A. Greene, and M. Marshall). Antiquity 92(366): 1530-1551.
  • 2017  The Kurgans of Gegharot: A preliminary report on the results of the 2013-14 excavations of Project ArAGATS (with R. Badalyan). Aramazd.
  • 2016  A Preliminary Report on the 2008, 2010, and 2011 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia (with R. Badalyan, I. Lindsay, L. Khatchadourian, A. Harutyunyan, A. Greene, M. Marshall, B. Monahan, and R. Hovsepyan).  Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 46: 149-222
  • 2015   Objects in Crisis: Curation, Repair, and the Historicity of Things in the South Caucasus (1500-300 BC) (with L. Khatchadourian). In Counternarratives and Macrohistories: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Complex Societies, edited by G. Emberling, pp. 231-258.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • 2015  Wood resource management based on charcoals from the Bronze Age site of Gegharot (central Armenia) (with F. Jude, D. Marguerie, R. Badalyan, and A. Delwaide).  Quaternary International.
  • 2014  Divination and Sovereignty: The Late Bronze Age Shrines at Gegharot, Armenia (with J. Leon). American Journal of Archaeology 118: 549-563.
  • 2014  Geophysical Survey at Late Bronze Age Fortresses: Comparing Methods in Diverse Geological Contexts of Northwestern Armenia (with I. Lindsay, J. Leon, and C. Wiktorowicz). Antiquity 88: 578-595
  • 2012 ‘Yerevan, My Ancient Erebuni’: Archaeological Repertoires, Public Assemblages, and the Manufacture of a (Post-)Soviet Nation.  In Regimes and Revolutions: Power, Violence, and Labor in Eurasia Between the Ancient and the Modern, edited by C. Hartley, G. B. Yazıcıoğlu, and A. T. Smith. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • 2012 The Caucasus and the Near East.  In Blackwell Companion to the Archaeology of the Near East, edited by Daniel Potts, pp. 668-686.  Blackwell, Oxford.
  • 2012 The Prehistory of an Urartian Landscape.  In: Biainili-Urartu edited by S. Kroll, P. Zimansky, U. Hellwag, C. Gruber, M. Roaf, pp. 39-52. Peeters, Leuven.
  • 2011 Archaeologies of Sovereignty.  Annual Review of Anthropology 40: 415-432.
  • 2010 Project ArAGATS: 10 Years of Investigations into Bronze and Iron Age Sites in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia (with R. Badalyan and L. Khatchadourian).  TÜBA-AR: The Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology 13: 263-276.
  • 2010 Magnetic Survey in the Investigation of Sociopolitical Change at a Late Bronze Age Fortress Settlement in Northwestern Armenia (with I. Lindsay and R. Badalyan).  Archaeological Prospection 17:15-27.
  • 2008 Village, Fortress, and Town in Bronze and Iron Age Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2003-2006 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia (with R. Badalyan, I. Lindsay, L. Khatchadourian, and P. Avetisyan).  Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 40:45-105.
  • 2006 A History of Archaeological Practices in the Republic of Armenia (with I. Lindsay).  Journal of Field Archaeology 31(2):165-184.
  • 2006 Representational Aesthetics and Political Subjectivity: The Spectacular in Urartian Images of Performance.  In Spectacle, Performance, and Power in Premodern Complex Society, edited by T. Inomata and L. Coben, pp. 103-134.  Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
  • 2006 Before Argishti: The Roots of Complex Societies in Caucasia, Notes from the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia.  In Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, edited by D. Peterson, L. Popova and A. T. Smith.  Colloquia Pontica Series.  Brill, Leiden.
  • 2005 Prometheus Unbound: Southern Caucasia in Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 19(4): 229-279.
  • 2004 The End of the Essential Archaeological Subject.  Archaeological Dialogues 11(1): 1-20.
  • 2004 Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Archaeological Investigations by Project ArAGATS in the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia  (with R. Badalyan, P. Avetisyan, and M. Zardaryan).  American Journal of Archaeology 108(1): 1-41.
  • 2003 The Emergence of Socio-Political Complexity in Southern Caucasia (with R. Badalyan and P. Avetisyan).  In Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond, edited by A. T. Smith and K. S. Rubinson.  Cotsen Institute Publications, Los Angeles.
  • 2001 The Limitations of Doxa: Agency and Subjectivity from an Archaeological Point of View.  Journal of Social Archaeology 1(2): 155-171.
  • 2000 Rendering the Political Aesthetic: Political Legitimacy in Urartian Representations of the Built Environment.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19: 131-163.
  • 1999 The Making of an Urartian Landscape in the Ararat Plain: A Study of State Architectonics.  American Journal of Archaeology 103(1): 43-69.  
Klarman Hall
123 McGraw Hall
ats73@cornell.edu

Education

Ph. D. 1996: University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology.

M.A. 1993: University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology.

M.Phil. 1991: University of Cambridge, Social and Political Science Faculty.

B.A. 1990: Brown University, Anthropology  & Political Science.  

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Nerissa Russell

Professor

Publications

Russell, Nerissa

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

Russell, Nerissa, and Katheryn C. Twiss
2017    Digesting the data: Dogs as taphonomic agents at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. In Archaeozoology of the Near East 9. M. Mashkour and M. Beech, eds. Pp. 59-73. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxbow.

Russell, Nerissa

2016 Neolithic human-animal relations. Groniek 206/207:21-32.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2015 Food and ritual. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. K. B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry, eds. Pp. 197-199. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2015 Çatalhöyük. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. K. B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry, eds. Pp. 91-93. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

 

Carter, Tristan, Scott D. Haddow, Nerissa Russell, Amy Bogaard, and Christina Tsoraki

2015 Laying the foundations: Creating households at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. In Assembling Çatalhöyük. I. Hodder and A. Marciniak, eds. Pp. 97-110. EAA Themes in Contemporary Archaeology, No. 1. Leeds: Maney.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Katherine I. Wright, Tristan Carter, Sheena Ketchum, Philippa Ryan, E. Nurcan Yalman, Roddy Regan, Mirjana Stevanović, and Marina Milić

2014 Bringing down the house: House closing deposits at Çatalhöyük. In Integrating Çatalhöyük: Themes from the 2000-2008 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 109-121. 32. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton, and G. Arzu Demirergi

2014 Changing animal use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. In Archaeozoology of the Near East X. B. de Cupere, V. Linseele, and S. Hamilton-Dyer, eds. Pp. 45-68. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement. Leuven: Peeters.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton, and G. Arzu Demirergi

2013 More on the Çatalhöyük mammal remains. In Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 213-258. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Janet L. Griffitts

2013 Çatalhöyük worked bone: South and 4040 Areas. In Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 277-306. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2012 Mammals from the BACH Area. In Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. R. E. Tringham and M. Stevanović, eds. Pp. 225-242. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Kevin J. McGowan

2012 Bird remains from the BACH Area. In Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. R. E. Tringham and M. Stevanović, eds. Pp. 243-252. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2012 Worked bone from the BACH area. In Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. R. E. Tringham and M. Stevanović, eds. Pp. 347-359. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 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: Ideology, masculinity, and cattle horns at Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Paléorient 35(2):19-32.

 

Bogaard, Amy et al.

2009    Private pantries and celebrated surplus: Saving and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia. Antiquity 83(321):649-668.

 

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.

 

Dewbury, Adam G., and Nerissa Russell

2007    Relative frequency of butchering cutmarks produced by obsidian and flint: An experimental approach. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(3):354-357.

 

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.

 

Russell, Nerissa

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. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Klarman Hall
202 McGraw Hall
nr29@cornell.edu
607/255-5137

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Keywords

 

 

zooarchaeology Neolithic Europe Near East gender inequality human-animal relations; European and Near Eastern pre-history; Neolithic studies; zooarchaeology and bone tools; inequality; human-animal relationships; social and symbolic roles of animals and meat

 

Lori Khatchadourian

Associate Professor

Publications

Books:

2017  Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia (third author, with Kathryn Weber, Emma Hite, and Adam T. Smith). Brill.

2016  Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires. University of California Press.

Articles (selection):

2023 Monitoring Heritage At Risk: Caucasus Heritage Watch and the Armenian Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh. Second author (with A.T.Smith and I. Lindsay). In Systemizing the Past: Papers in Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan. Y. Grekyan and A. Bobokhyan. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., pp. 429-439.

2022 Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in the Twilight Zone of Soviet Industry. Cultural Anthropology, 37(2):317-348.

2020 Education Beyond Preservation: An Archaeological Camp for Girls in Armenia. Near Eastern Archaeology 83(4):248-255.

2020 False Dilemmas? Or What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Material Theory, Responsibility and 'Hard Power'. Antiquity 94(378):1649-1652.

2020 Project ArAGATS 1998-2018: Twenty Years of Archaeological Investigations into the Bronze and Iron Ages of Armenia. Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2016: 1-2, pp. 61-81. (fourth author with Ruben Badalyan, Alan Greene, Armine Harutyunyan, Ian Lindsay, Maureen Marshall and Adam T. Smith)

2020  “From Copy to Proxy: The Politics of Matter and Mimesis in Achaemenid Armenia.” The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Festschrift in Honor of Margaret Cool Root, eds. M. Garrison and E. Dusinberre. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, pp. 601-633.

2018  “Pottery Typology and Craft Learning in the Northern Near East.” Iranica Antiqua, LIII:179-265.

2018  “A New Chronological Model for the Bronze and Iron Age Caucasus.” Antiquity, 92(366):1530-1551. (third author with Sturt Manning, Adam T. Smith, and Ruben Badalyan, Ian Lindsay, Alan Greene, Maureen Marshall).

2015  "Objects in Crisis: Curation, Repair, and the Historicity of Things in the South Caucasus (1500-300 BC)." Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History: The Present and Future of Counternarratives, ed. Geoff Emberling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 231-258 (with Adam T. Smith).

2014. "Empire in the Everyday: A Preliminary Report on the 2008-2011 Excavations at Tsaghkahovit, Armenia." American Journal of Archaeology, 118(1):137-169.

2013  “An Archaeology of Hegemony: The Achaemenid Empire and the Remaking of the Fortress in the Armenian Highlands.” In Empires and Complexity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology, ed. G. Areshian. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 108-145.

2012  “The Achaemenid Provinces in Archaeological Perspective.” In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), ed. D.T. Potts. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 963-983.

2011  “The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, ed. S. Steadman and G. McMahon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.      

2010  “Project ArAGATS: 10 Years of Investigation of Bronze and Iron Age Sites in the Tsaghkahovit Plain.” TŰBA AR: Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology (co-authored with R. Badalyan and A.T. Smith).

2008  “Village, Fortress, and Town in Bronze Age and Iron Age Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2003-2006 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia.” Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (co-authored with R. Badalyan, A.T. Smith, I. Lindsay, and P. Avetisyan).

2008  “The 2005-2006 Excavations of the Iron III Settlement at Tsaghkahovit.” Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 91-100.

2008  “Making Nations from the Ground Up: Traditions of Classical Archaeology in the South Caucasus.” American Journal of Archaeology, 112.2, p. 247-78.

2007  “Unforgettable Landscapes: Attachments to the Past in Hellenistic Armenia.” In Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research, ed. N. Yoffee. University of Arizona Press, p. 43-75.

2005  “Seals and Sealings: Archaeological Perspectives.” In This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq, ed. M.C. Root, p. 19-34. Kelsey Museum Catalogue.

2005  “An Overview of Place and Space.” In This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq, ed. M.C. Root, p. 15-17 (with M.C. Root). Kelsey Museum Catalogue.

Klarman Hall
406 White Hall
lk323@cornell.edu

Education

  • University of Michigan, Classical Art & Archaeology, M.A., Ph.D., 2008
  • London School of Economics, Russian & Post-Soviet Studies, M.Sc. 1998
  • Georgetown University, Classics and Government, B.A. 1997

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Keywords

 

 

Anthropological archaeology

 

Kurt A. Jordan

Professor

Publications

Books: 

2022    The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ People in the Cayuga Lake Region: A Brief History. Ithaca, NY: Tompkins County Historical Commission Publication 5.

2008     The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754: An Iroquois Local Political Economy .  Gainesville: University Press of Florida and the Society for Historical Archaeology.  Paperback edition issued February 2011.

Co-Authored Book:

Warren Allmon, Marvin Pritts, Peter Marks, Blake Epstein, David Bullis, and Kurt Jordan
2021    Smith Woods: The Environmental History of an Old Growth Forest Remnant in Central New York State. Second edition. Ithaca: Paleontological Research Institution Special Publication No. 59. First edition published in 2017.

Selected Articles:

2022     Small and Under-recorded Sites as Evidence for Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ (Cayuga) and Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca) Regional Settlement Expansion, circa 1640-1690. In Tsim D. Schneider and Lee M. Panich, editors: Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, pages 242-264.

2018    From Nucleated Villages to Dispersed Networks: Transformations in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Community Structure, circa AD 1669-1779. In Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson, editors: The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pages 174-191.

2018   Markers of Difference or Makers of Difference? Atypical Practices at Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Satellite Sites, ca. 1650-1700. Historical Archaeology 52(1):12-29.

2016    Categories in Motion: Emerging Perspectives in the Archaeology of Postcolumbian Indigenous Communities.  Historical Archaeology 50(3):62-80.

2014     Enacting Gender and Kinship around a Large Outdoor Firepit at the Seneca Iroquois Townley-Read Site, 1715-1754.  Historical Archaeology 48(2): 61-90.

2014     Pruning Colonialism: Vantage Point, Local Political Economy, and Cultural Entanglement in the Archaeology of post-1415 Indigenous Peoples.  In Neal Ferris, Rodney Harrison, and Michael V. Wilcox, editors: Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 103-120.

2013     Incorporation and Colonization: Postcolumbian Iroquois Satellite Communities and Processes of Indigenous Autonomy.  American Anthropologist 115(1): 29-43.

2010     Not Just "One Site Against the World": Seneca Iroquois Intercommunity Connections and Autonomy, 1550-1779.  In Laura L. Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell, editors: Across a Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400-1900 .  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pages 79-106.  

2009     Colonies, Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement: The Archaeology of Postcolumbian Intercultural Relations.  In Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster, editors: International Handbook of Historical Archaeology .  New York: Springer, pages 31-49.

2009     Regional Diversity and Colonialism in Eighteenth Century Iroquoia.  In Laurie E. Miroff and Timothy D. Knapp, editors: Iroquoian Archaeology and Analytic Scale . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pages 215-230.

Selected Co-authored Articles: 

Kurt A. Jordan and Peregrine A. Gerard-Little
2019    Neither Contact nor Colonial: Seneca Iroquois Local Political Economies, 1670-1754. In Heather Law Pezzarossi and Russell N. Sheptak, editors: Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas:  Material and Documentary Perspectives on Entanglement.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pages 39-56.

Peregrine A. Gerard-Little, Amanda K. Moutner, Kurt A. Jordan, and Michael B. Rogers
2016    The Production of Affluence in Central New York:  The Archaeology and History of Geneva’s White Springs Manor, 1806-1951.  Historical Archaeology 50(4): 36-64.

Peregrine A. Gerard-Little, Michael B. Rogers, and Kurt A. Jordan
2012     Understanding the Built Environment at the Seneca Iroquois White Springs Site using Large-scale, Multi-instrument Archaeogeophysical Surveys.  Journal of Archaeological Science 39(7): 2042-2048.

Christopher N. Matthews and Kurt A. Jordan
2011     Secularism as Ideology: Exploring Assumptions of Cultural Equivalence in Museum Repatriation.  In Reinhard Bernbeck and Randall H. McGuire, editors: Ideologies in Archaeology .  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pages 212-232.

Klarman Hall
268 McGraw Hall
kj21@cornell.edu
607/255-3109

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Columbia University, 2002

B.A. in Anthropology and Government, Cornell University, 1988

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John S. Henderson

Professor

Publications

2015 The myth of Maya: archaeology and the construction of Mesoamerican histories. In Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke (eds.), On Methods: How We Know What We Think We Know About the Maya, pp. 7-24. Acta Mesoamericana Vol. 28. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein. (with Kathryn M. Hudson)

2015 Calendar structures for Venus in Mesoamerican divinatory books: common approaches to commensuration and correction. Journal for the History of Astronomy 46(4):387-412.

2015 Weaving words and interwoven meanings: textual polyvocality and visual literacy in the reading of Copán’s Stela J. Image: Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft 22:108-128. (with Kathryn M. Hudson)

2014 Talking to the Past: endangerment, history, and the economics of language in northwest Honduras. In Patrick Heinrich and Nicholas Ostler (eds.), Indigenous Languages: Their Value to the Community, pp. 27-36. Proceedings of the 18th FEL Conference. (with Kathryn M. Hudson)

2014 Multi-proxy analysis of plant use at Formative Period Los Naranjos, Honduras. Latin American Antiquity 25(1):65-81. (with Shanti Morell-Hart and Rosemary Joyce)

2014 Life on the edge – Identity and interaction in the Land of Ulúa and the Maya World. In Janne Ikäheimo, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, and Tiina Äikäs (eds.), Sounds Like Theory, pp. 157-171. Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland 2. (with Kathryn M. Hudson)

2012 The southeastern fringe of Mesoamerica. In Christopher A. Pool and Deborah L. Nichols (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, pp. 482-494. New York: Cambridge University Press. (with Kathryn M. Hudson)

2010 Being “Olmec” in Early Formative period Honduras. Ancient Mesoamerica 21(1):187-200. (with Rosemary Joyce)

2010 Forming Mesoamerican taste: cacao consumption in Formative Period contexts. In John E. Staller and Michael Carrasco (eds.), Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica, pp. 157-173. New York: Springer. (with Rosemary Joyce)

2007 From feasting to cuisine: implications of archaeological research in an early Honduran village. American Anthropologist 109(4):642-653. (with Rosemary Joyce)

2007 Chemical and archaeological evidence for the earliest cacao beverages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104(48):18937–18940. (with Rosemary Joyce, Gretchen R. Hall, W. Jeffrey Hurst, and Patrick E. McGovern)

2006 Brewing distinction: the development of cacao beverages in Formative Mesoamerica. In Cameron L. McNeil (ed.), Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao, pp. 140-153. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (with Rosemary Joyce)

2006 The plunder of the Ulua Valley, Honduras and a market analysis for its antiquities. In Neil Brodie, Morag Kersel, Christina Luke, Kathryn Walker Tubb (eds.), Archaeology and the Commodification of Material Culture, pp. 147-172. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (with Christina Luke)

2001 Beginnings of village life in eastern Mesoamerica. Latin American Antiquity 12(1):5-23. (with Rosemary Joyce)

1997 World of the Ancient Maya. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

1993 Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks. (co-edited with Jeremy A. Sabloff)

1993 Configurations of Power: Holistic Anthropology in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (co-edited with Patricia J. Netherly)

1993 Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis. UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 35. (coedited with Marilyn P. Beaudry-Corbett)

1992 Variations on a theme: a frontier view of Maya civilization. In Elin C. Danien and Robert J. Sharer (eds.), New Theories on the Ancient Maya, pp. 161-171. Philadelphia: University Museum.

1992 Elites and ethnicity along the southeastern fringe of Mesoamerica. In D.Z. Chase and A.F. Chase (eds.), Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment, pp. 157-68. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

1984 Archaeology in Northwestern Honduras: Interim Reports of the Proyecto Arqueologico Sula. Vol. I. Occasional Papers. LatinAmerican Studies and Archaeology Programs, Cornell University. (ed.)

1979 Atopula, Guerrero, and Olmec Horizons in Mesoamerica. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 77.

1977 The Valle de Naco: ethnohistory and archaeology in northwestern Honduras. Ethnohistory 24(4): 363-77.

1974 Origin of the 260-day cycle in Mesoamerica. Science 185: 542.

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Mesoamerica.  Andes.  Development of complex societies.  Writing systems.  Settlement archaeology.

 

Denise Green

Associate Professor

Publications

Green, Denise N. and Nancy E. Breen (accepted/in press) “Silk Mania in the Auburn Prison.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America.

Green, Denise N. (2020) “Sayach’apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest.” In Aldona Jonaitis and Katherine Bunn-Marcuse (eds.) Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 259-273.

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2020) “Taking Offense: A Discussion of Fashion, Appropriation, and Cultural Insensitivity.” In Sara Marcketti and Elena Karpova (eds.) The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions. London: Bloomsbury: 143 – 160.

Getman, Rachel, Denise N. Green, Kavita Bala, Utkarsh Mall, Nehal Rawat, Sonia Appasamy, and Bharath Hariharan (2020) “Machine Learning (ML) For Tracking Fashion Trends: Documenting the Frequency of the Baseball Cap on Social Media and the Runway.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20931195

Reddy-Best, Kelly, Denise N. Green, and Kelsie Doty, and (2020). “Fashioned Bodies in Roller Derby League Logos: Critical Analysis of Race, Gender, Body Size and Position, and Aesthetics.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20930086

Denham, Amanda, and Denise N. Green (2020) “Her Eyes, My Body: Negotiating Embodiment Through Maya Backstrap Weaving.” Journal of Fashion, Style, & Popular Culture, Vol. 7, No. 1, 125-141. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00008_1

Green, Denise N., Jenny Leigh Du Puis, Lynda Xepoleas, Chris Hesselbein, Katherine Greder, Victoria Pietsch, Rachel Getman, and Jessica Guadalupe Estrada (2019). “Fashion Exhibitions as Scholarship: Evaluation Criteria for Peer Review.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X19888018

Green, Denise N. (2019) “An Archival Ethnography of Sapir’s “Nootka” (Nuu-chah-nulth) Texts, Correspondence, and Fieldwork through the Douglas Thomas Drawings.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 66, Issue 2, 353-384. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7299985

 

Green, Denise N. (2019) “Fashion and Fearlessness in the Wharton Studio’s Silent Film Serials, 1914 - 1918.” Framework Vol. 60, issue 1, 83-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13110/framework.60.1.0083

Green, Denise N., Susan B. Kaiser, Kelsie Doty, and Kyra Streck (2019) “Both Sides Now: Articulating Textiles and Fashioned Bodies in the Works of Joni Mitchell, 1968 – 1976.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X19830203

Chapin, Chloe, Denise N. Green, and Samuel Neuberg (2019) “Exhibiting Gender: Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Fashion, Gender, and Mannequins in Museum Display.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 45, Issue 1: 75-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1551282

Green, Denise N. (2018) “Producing Place and Declaring Rights Through Thliitsapilthim (Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations’ Ceremonial Curtains).” Textile: Cloth and Culture, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 72-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2018.1495349

Mamp, Michael, Ariele Elia, Sara Tatayana Bernstein, Laurie Anne Brewer, and Denise N. Green (2018). “Scholars’ Roundtable Presentation – Engaging Labor, Acknowledging Maker.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 44, Issue 2: 133-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1507345

Green, Denise N. (2017) “The Best Known and Best Dressed Woman in America: Irene Castle and Silent Film Style.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 43, Issue 2: 77-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2017.1352160

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2017) “Introduction: Fashion and Appropriation.” Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, Vol. 4, Issue 2: 145-150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc.4.2.145_2

Mida, Ingrid, Denise N. Green, and Abby Lillethun (2017) “Scholars’ Roundtable Presentation – Technology: Friend or Foe?” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 43, Issue 2: 119 – 138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2017.1357274

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Fashion(s) from the Northwest Coast: Nuu-chah-nulth Design Iterations.” In Miguel Angel Gardetti and Subramanian Senthikannan (eds.) Ethnic (Aboriginal) Fashion. New York: Springer Publishing: 19 – 46.

Kaiser, Susan B. and Denise N. Green (2016) “Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Fashion Studies: Philosophical Underpinning and Multiple Masculinities.” In Heike Jenss (ed.) Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices. London: Bloomsbury: 160 – 180. 

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on ethnographic practice in the archive of Dr. Susan Golla.” In Regna Darnell and Frederic Gleach (eds.) Histories of Anthropology Annual: Local Knowledge, Global Stage. Vol. X: 273 – 301.

Green, Denise N. (2016) Cornell’s Sesquicentennial: An Exhibition of Campus Style. Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 43 – 62.     

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2016) “Men, Masculinity, and Style in 2008: A Study of Men’s Clothing Considerations in the Latter Aughts.” Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, Vol. 3, Issue 2: 125 – 140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf.3.2.125_1

Satinsky, Emily and Denise N. Green (2016) “Negotiating Identities in the Furry Fandom Through Costuming.” Joint special issue of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture and Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion Vol. 3, Issue 2: 107 – 124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf.3.2.107_1

Green, Denise N. (2014) “A Pair of Hinkiits’am (Serpent Headdresses).” Otsego Institute 2010 Alumni Review. http://www.otsegoinstitute.org/denise-nicole-green.html

Green, Denise N., Van Dyk Lewis, and Charlotte Jirousek (2013) “Fashion Cultures in a Small Town: An Analysis of Fashion- and Place-Making.” Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Vol. 4, Issue 1: 71 - 106.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb.4.1-2.71_1

Green, Denise N. (2011) “Mamuu—La Pratique du Tissage / Mamuu—The Practice of Weaving.”  Cahiers métiers d'art / Craft Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 37 - 59. (Published in French and English, print only.)

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2011) “From Ephemeral to Everyday Costuming: Negotiations in Masculine Identities at the Burning Man Project.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 37, Issue 1: 1 – 22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/036121112X13099651318548

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Education

  • B.S. (honors) in Apparel Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
  • M.S. in Textiles, University of California--Davis
  • Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of British Columbia

 

 

Departments and programs

Keywords

fashion, textiles, First Nations, Native American, American Indian studies, space and place, yoga, Bikram yoga, design, Nuu-chah-nulth, ethnography, visual anthropology, anthropology, ethnographic film, documentary film, hatha yoga, Burning Man

Frederic Wright Gleach

Senior Lecturer and Curator of the Anthropology Collections

Publications

Selected Books

ongoing series

  • (edited with Regna Darnell) Histories of Anthropology Annual. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Volumes 1-13 published 2005-2019; volume 14  in press, volume 15 in preparation

2002

  • (edited with Regna Darnell) Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association: Presidential Portraits. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and the American Anthropological Association.
  • (edited with Lisa J. Lefler) Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identities. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

1997

  • Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Selected Articles

2013

  • Humanistic Anthropology. In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, John Jackson, ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Online resource: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0101.xml?rskey=FI576M
  • Notes on the Use and Abuse of Cultural Knowledge. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, ed. Pp. 176-190. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press.

2010

  • (with Carolyn Podruchny and Roger Roulette) Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade. In Gathering Places: Essays on Aboriginal Histories, Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Pp. 25-47. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

2009

  • Sociology, Progressivism, and the Undergraduate Training of Anthropologists at the University of Wisconsin, 1925-30. In Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 5. Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds.  Pp. 229-250.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

2007

  • Cushing at Cornell: The Early Years of a Pioneering Anthropologist. In Histories of Anthropology Annual, volume 3. Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Pp. 99-120. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

2006

  • Pocahontas: An Exercise in Myth-making and Marketing. In New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations. Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. Pp. 433-455. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

2003

  • Theory, Practice, Life: Rethinking Americanist Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century. Reviews in Anthropology 32(3): 191-205
  • Controlled Speculation and Constructed Myths: The Saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. In Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, second edition. Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert, eds. Pp.39-74. Peterborough: Broadview Press
  • Pocahontas at the Fair: Crafting Identities at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition. Ethnohistory 50(3): 419-445.

2002

  • Images of Empire: Popular Representations of the 1898 War. Latino(a) Research Review 5(1):51-79
  • Anthropological Professionalization and the Virginia Indians at the Turn of the Century. American Anthropologist 104(2):499-507.
  • Powhatan Identity in Anthropology and Popular Culture (and Vice Versa). In Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identities. Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach, eds. Pp. 5-18. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

1995

  • Mimesis, Play, and Transformation in Powhatan Ritual. In Papers of the Twenty-sixth Algonquian Conference. David Pentland, ed. Pp. 114-23. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

1988

  • A Rose by Any Other Name: Questions of Mockley Chronology. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 4: 85-98.

1987

  • A Working Projectile Point Classification for Central Virginia. Archaeological Society of Virginia Quarterly Bulletin 42(2): 80-120.
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607/288-2247

Education

PhD 1992, University of Chicago
BS 1984, Virginia Commonwealth University

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

historical anthropology and history of anthropology, material and visual culture, museum studies, tourism, warfare, religion; Native North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba

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