Use Rights for MCC Anthropology Study Guides


The primary purpose of the ASM101 and ASB222 study guides is to help create an environment that is rich in resources and information for students at Mesa Community College to explore. Anyone is welcome to use this material freely and without fee. Portions of the written material in the study guides are produced by Richard Effland or have been drawn from sources as cited in the text of the guides. The contents that have been written expressly for the ASM101 and ASB222 courses are the intellectual property of Richard Effland. The text contents of these pages are to be considered not-for-profit free, and they are intended for educational use by students, scholars, teachers, and the public.

We request that any such use of these materials name Richard Effland and Mesa Community College (Maricopa Community College District) as the original source for these materials. We would appreciate knowing how these materials are used. You may contact the primary author of these study guides electronically using the following e-mail address: effland@mc.maricopa.edu.

We are especially indebted to Brian Fagan for allowing Mesa Community College to extract parts of his Anthro 3 study guide and use them as we saw fit. His generousity enables our students to share in his vast knowledge of prehistory and human culture.

Discover Magazine has allowed us to download articles from past issues and convert them to formats to htmls. We greatly appreciate this since Discover offers such a rich environment for our students.

The following is a list of written materials other than those that has been specifically written for this study guide or those parts provided by Brian Fagan:


Stephen Jay Gould

The Power of This View of Life, Natural History, No. 6, June 1994, pg. 6-8.


Elizabeth S. Vrba

The Pulse That Produced Us, Natural History, May 1993, pg. 47 - 51.


Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: a search for who we are, Random House, New York 1992.


Jared Diamond

The Third Chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal, Harper Collins Publishing, 1992.


Peter Wheeler

Human Ancestors Walked Tall, Stayed Cool, Natural History, August 1993, pg. 65-66.


Dean Falk

A Good Brain is Hard to Cool, Natural History, August 1993, pg. 65.


Linda Trujillo

An Overview to Origins of Bipedality, Mesa Community College, 1994.


Donald C. Johanson

A Skull to Chew On, Natural History, May 1993, pg. 52-53.


Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth

Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.


W. Brian Arthur

Complexity, Scientific American, May 1993, pg. 144.


Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin

Origins Reconsidered: in search of what makes us human. Doubleday, New York, 1992.


Donald Johanson, Lenora Johanson, and Blake Edgar

Ancestors: in search of human origins, Villard Books, New York, 1994.


Melinda Zeder

New Perspectives on the Origins of Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution, 1995.


George J. Gumerman and Jeffrey S. Dean

Prehistoric Cooperation and Competition in the Western Anasazi Area, Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory edited by Linda Cordell and George J. Gumerman, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., pg. 99-137.