Jacques Bordaz papers 1167 Finding aid prepared by Lawrence Rosen and James DeWalt. Last updated on March 02, 2017. University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives 2016 Jacques Bordaz papers Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents.......................................................................................................................................6 Administrative Information...........................................................................................................................7 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................7 Collection Inventory......................................................................................................................................9 Correspondence........................................................................................................................................9 Employment...........................................................................................................................................10 Publications............................................................................................................................................10 Louise A. Bordaz series........................................................................................................................11 Shanidar Cave Project...........................................................................................................................13 Dandalas Valley Project........................................................................................................................13 Mott's Point Project...............................................................................................................................14 Suberde Project......................................................................................................................................15 Erbaba Project........................................................................................................................................26 Archaeological Site Survey...................................................................................................................45 Traditional Crafts of Turkey.................................................................................................................46 Photographs............................................................................................................................................47 - Page 2 - Jacques Bordaz papers Summary Information Repository University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives Creator Bordaz, Jacques, 1926-2000 Creator Bordaz, Louise Alpers, b. 1941 Title Jacques Bordaz papers Call number 1167 Date [bulk] 1960-1989 Date [inclusive] 1956-2003 Extent 13.8 linear feet Language English Abstract Jacques Bordaz (1926-2000) was a French-born anthropologist and archaeologist who conducted field work and research at Native-American sites from 1949-1963, and at Neanderthal and Neolithic sites in Iraq and Turkey since 1960. Along with his wife, fellow archaeologist Louise Alpers Bordaz (1941-2002), he excavated and studied the Neolithic sites of Suberde and Erbaba in southwestern Turkey between 1964 and 1978. A major focus of both of these projects was the study of the manufacture and use of stone tools. The Suberde project included an analysis of animal bone remains to determine patterns of hunting and stock-raising, and the Erbaba project included analysis of Neolithic pottery. Jacques and Louise Bordaz subsequently undertook a joint study of the traditional crafts of Turkey. The Jacques Bordaz papers consist of 13.8 linear feet of textual documents from 1958 to 2003 (bulk 1960-1989) and photographs from 1956 to 1977. The greater part of the collection (7.5 linear feet, including - Page 3 - Jacques Bordaz papers card indexes) relates to the Suberde and Erbaba projects. There are a few files related to the Neanderthal site of Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq, excavated under the direction of Robert Solecki (1960-1961), a survey of the Dandalas Valley in southwestern Turkey (1962), and a curious collection of Termatrex data sheets intended for analysis and interpretation of a number of sites in Turkey and the Middle East. The collection includes records pertaining to the early teaching careers of both Jacques and Louise Bordaz, but there is virtually no record of Bordaz? Native-American research except for a small file from the Mott?s Point site in New York, and some photographic prints from the Penitas project in Mexico. Text files concerning traditional crafts of Turkey are not well represented. About 30% of the files in this collection are in French. A collection of slides documenting the Karatas, Suberde and Erbaba sites, as well as a significant collection of slides pertaining to the traditional crafts of Turkey, is filed separately. Cite as: [Item name]. Box [Box number]. Jacques Bordaz papers. Penn Museum Archives. Accessed [Date accessed]. Biography/History Jacques Bordaz Jacques Bordaz was born in Paris February 14, 1926. He received his baccalaureate in Philosophy-Letters from the University of Paris in 1944. From 1944 to 1947 he attended the Institut d?Etudes Politiques, University of Paris, and in 1964 received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University (dissertation: Pre-Columbian Ceramic Kilns at Pe?itas, a Post-Classic site in Coastal Nayarit, Mexico). From 1948 to 1954 he was attached to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York. Early fieldwork included sites in Peru and Bolivia in 1949. He attended the U.C.L.A. Archaeological Field School in Utah in 1955, and in 1956 he conducted fieldwork at Pe?itas, Mexico, after which - Page 4 - Jacques Bordaz papers he served as Research Assistant for the study of Mexican material at U.C.L.A. in 1956 and 1959. He was Research Assistant to William Duncan Strong, Columbia University, from 1956-1958 (research fellowship for dissertation, 1959-1960). His academic positions included: Lecturer in Anthropology, Columbia University, 1958-1959; Instructor in Anthropology, New York University, 1961-1964 (Assistant Professor, 1964-1966); Professeur agr?g?, D?partment d?Anthropologie, University of Montreal, 1966-1971 (Professeur titulaire, 1971-1972); Associate Professor and Assistant Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 1972-1974 (Associate Professor from 1974). In 1960 Bordaz served as assistant to Ralph S. Solecki at the Neanderthal site of Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq, continuing as research assistant from 1960-1961 (Columbia University). In 1963, while Instructor at New York University, he participated in a joint excavation with Columbia University of a Native American shell midden site at Mott?s Point, New York. During 1962 Bordaz participated in an archaeological survey of prehistoric sites, known as the Anatolian Research Project (New York University), in the Dandalas Valley of southwestern Turkey, also under the direction of Ralph Solecki. One of the sites identified by Dr. Solecki was the pre-pottery Neolithic settlement at Suberde in the Beysehir-Sugla lake region. Bordaz served as director of the Suberde excavations (NYU) for two seasons, from 1964 to 1965, followed by a study season in 1966. A focal point of this project was the analysis of faunal remains to determine the prevalence of hunting as opposed to stock raising in Neolithic culture, as well as a study of chipped stone artifacts. Bordaz was subsequently director of the excavations at Erbaba (University of Montreal, later Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania), a Neolithic site not far from Suberde. Active excavations were undertaken in 1969, 1971,1974 and 1977, with study seasons between. Significant aspects of the Erbaba project included the study of stone tools, worked bone, and pottery. Bordaz authored Tools of the Old and New Stone Age in 1970 (New York, The Natural History Press, the American Museum of Natural History), which became a standard introductory text in this field. He also produced a film, Stone Knapping in Modern Turkey in 1971, and was the author of numerous scholarly articles. Jacques Bordaz collaborated on several projects with fellow archaeologist Victoria von Hagen. An ongoing concern of theirs was the use of the new technology of data processing as applied to archaeology. They also pioneered the use of the Termatrex system, a less expensive system of data collection and interpretation. Jacques and Victoria married, and Victoria spent at least the 1965 season at Suberde as a member of the expedition. Jacques Bordaz married Louise A. Alpers sometime in late 1969 or early 1970. Louise Alpers was also an archaeologist and a member of the expedition at Suberde in 1966. Jacques and Louise Bordaz worked closely together on several projects. By 1975 they had shifted their scholarly focus to the traditional crafts of Turkey. Other projects at this time included monographs in preparation concerning the Suberde and Erbaba projects, and a study of human occupation in the Beysehir-Sugla region of Turkey from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods, comprising sixty sites, and incorporating data collected since 1964. It is unclear if, or in what form, any of these projects were completed. Jacques Bordaz died on October 24, 2000. Louise Alpers Bordaz Louise A. Alpers (Bordaz) was born June 6, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1963 in Archaeology (honors thesis: A Study of Glazed Wares in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean from the Earliest Appearances through the Late Bronze Age). She earned her Ph.D. in 1973 in Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology, also from Bryn Mawr College (dissertation: The Metal Artefacts from the Bronze Age Excavations at Karatas-Semay?k, Turkey and - Page 5 - Jacques Bordaz papers Their Significance in Anatolia, The Near East, and the Aegean). Her professional positions included: Teaching Assistant, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, 1965-1966; Acting Director, Ankara Branch, American Research Institute in Turkey, 1967-1969; Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 1973-1974 (since 1974 Assistant Professor). Louise Alpers' research and field work included three seasons as field supervisor at the Bryn Mawr College excavations at Elmali in Turkey, 1964-1966, and five at Karatas-Semay?k, 1964-1968, both under the direction of Professor Machteld J. Mellink. She studied ceramic material collected by the Beysehir-Sugla Lakes Basin Survey in 1966, during which she was also field supervisor for the Ankara Archaeological Museum excavations at Eskiyapar, Raci Temizer, Director. She conducted an analysis of the post-Neolithic ceramic material collected by the Suberde excavation in 1966. In 1969 or 1970 she married Jacques Bordaz. Between 1970 and 1978 she conducted field work at Erbaba (Associate Director since 1971), alternating archaeological excavation with material study. Her subsequent research was almost exclusively in collaboration with Jacques Bordaz, detailed above. She spoke and wrote fluent Turkish, and collaborated on research, translation, and editing books and articles by Turkish scholars. Her publications included collaborative articles and reports with Jacques Bordaz on the Erbaba excavations, and co-production of the film, Stone Knapping in Modern Turkey. Louise Bordaz died on August 28, 2002. Scope and Contents The Jacques Bordaz papers consist of 13.8 linear feet of textual and photographic records covering the career of archaeologist Jacques Bordaz from 1956 to 2003 (bulk 1960-1989). The collection includes papers relating to the early academic careers of Bordaz and his wife and fellow archaeologist, Louise Bordaz, with whom he collaborated on many projects. There is no documentation of any of Bordaz? American archaeological projects, except for a small file concerning the Mott?s Point, New York project (1962) and a collection of photographs from the Penitas, Mexico project (1956, 1964). There are several files concerning the Shanidar Cave project in northern Iraq (1960-1961), and the Anatolian Research Project, an archaeological survey of the Dandalas Valley region of southwestern Turkey (1962). Both the Shanidar Cave and the Dandalas Valley projects were under the direction of Dr. Ralph Solecki (Columbia University). The majority of the collection consists of the records of the Suberde (1964-1965) and Erbaba (1969-1974) projects, Neolithic sites in the Beysehir-Sugla region of southwestern Turkey. Both of these projects had a strong focus on the production and use of stone tools, a major concern of Bordaz throughout his career. The Suberde project also included a significant study of animal bones, in part to determine the prevalence of hunting as opposed to stock raising for food production. The Erbaba project included a study of Neolithic pottery. The collection also includes a curious set of Termatrex data sheets with descriptive text and illustration, intended to provide analysis and interpretation of various aspects of Neolithic settlement. A very small collection of documents concerns the study of traditional crafts of modern Turkey. There is virtually no documentation in this collection concerning Victoria (von Hagen) Bordaz, Jacques? former wife, also an archaeologist with whom he collaborated on several projects. There are no textual files related to the early archaeological work of Louise Bordaz. - Page 6 - Jacques Bordaz papers The collection includes a series of photographic prints, most with negatives, from the Penitas excavation, the Shanidar Cave site, the Dandalas Valley project, and the Suberde and Erbaba projects. This evidence both predates and postdates the textual records. A collection of slides documenting both objects and excavation at Suberde and Erbaba, traditional crafts of Turkey, as well as Louise Bordaz' field work at Karatas-Semayuk, is filed separately. About 30% of the documents in this collection are in French or a combination of French and English, especially early projects. A very small number of documents of an administrative nature are in Turkish. Administrative Information University of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum Archives 2016 Finding aid prepared by Lawrence Rosen and James DeWalt. Access Restrictions Although many items from the archives are in the public domain, copyright may be retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. The user is fully responsible for compliance with relevant copyright law. Controlled Access Headings Geographic Name(s) • Dandalas Valley (Turkey) • Erbaba (Turkey) • Mott's Point Site (New York) • Shanidar Cave (Iraq) • Suberde (Turkey) Personal Name(s) - Page 7 - Jacques Bordaz papers • Solecki, Ralph S. , b. 1917 Subject(s) • Flintknapping • Handicraft--Turkey • Neanderthals--Middle East. • Neolithic period--Turkey. • Stone implements - Page 8 - Jacques Bordaz papers Correspondence Collection Inventory Correspondence, 1961-2003 (Bulk, 1961-1996) . Scope and Contents note The correspondence series contains general correspondence, arranged by correspondent, from 1961 through 1996, with some outliers dating to 2003. Subjects include archaeological activity, teaching and student advising, and some letters of a more personal nature. Many of the project series in this collection also have correspondence files, and correspondence can be found within subject files in various series. Many of the letters are in French, a few in Turkish. Box Correspondence A-B. 1 American Embassy, Turkey 1964-1973. 1 Correspondence C-F. 1 Canadian Embassy, Turkey 1966-1971. 1 Correspondence G-K. 1 General Directory of Antiquities and Museums, Turkey 1963-1979. 1 Correspondence L-T. 1 Turkish Embassy 1973-1981. 1 Correspondence U-Z. 1 Miscellaneous Correspondence. 1 - Page 9 - Jacques Bordaz papers Employment Employment, 1962-1987. Scope and Contents note The employment series contains files related to Jacques Bordaz? academic career at New York University (1962-1965), the University of Montreal (1968-1972), and the University of Pennsylvania (1987 only). Some of the material relates to Bordaz? student work, but most of the contents document his course assignments as instructor or professor. A significant portion of this series pertains to a series of student protests directed at Professor Bordaz regarding alleged misappropriation of grant funds and generally poor relations with students at the University of Montreal in 1972, leading to his acceptance of a position at the University of Pennsylvania. Most of the documentation from the University of Montreal is in French. Box New York University 1962-1965. 1 University of Montreal 1968-1971. 1 University of Montreal-Student Protest 1972. 1 University of Pennsylvania 1987. 1 Publications, 1958-1992. Scope and Contents note This series contains documentation concerning publications not specifically related to the Suberde or Erbaba projects. Included are book and article reviews by Jacques and Louise Bordaz, drafts of articles, and reviews of Bordaz? Tools of the Old and New Stone Age. Box Pan Am Clipper Articles 1982. 1 - Page 10 -