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Guide to the Anthropology Curriculum Study Project Papers circa 1970s

Descriptive Summary

Title:	Anthropology Curriculum Study Project. Records
Dates:	circa 1970s
Size:	6 linear feet (4 boxes)
Repository:	Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
Abstract:	This collection contains sketches, diagrams, and photographs with notes used for the Origins of Humanness Patterns in Human History 1971 publication. The book was published by the Anthropology Curriculum Study Project (ACSP), housed at the University of Chicago under the guidance of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

Information on Use

Access

The collection is open for research.

Citation

When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Anthropology Curriculum Study Project, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Historical Note

Malcolm Carr Collier directed the Anthropology Curriculum Study Project from approximately 1963 to 1970. An anthropologist and author, Malcolm Collier, was married to Donald Collier, another prominent anthropologist and professor at the University of Chicago (1950-1970) and a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History (1941-1976). Throughout its existence, the ACSP produced the Origins of Humanness Patterns in Human History publication, a one-semester secondary course available to educators through the Macmillan Company. The project was sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and the National Science Foundation, and it included research regarding multiple archaeological excavations. Geographical areas with material included in this collection are Choukoutien (China), Tabun (Israel), Sterkfontein (South Africa), and Swartkrans (South Africa).

Scope Note

The materials are kept in a single series and are organized by the project’s personal numbering system. Each document also has a page number associated with it. The last folder contains materials without an ACSP number; these materials have been ordered by their associated page number. The collection includes sketches, diagrams, photographs, maps, charts, and photocopies. The materials are dated circa 1970s, as the Origins of Humanness book was published in 1971. Some of the materials are titled and are recorded in the inventory section of this guide.

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Subject Headings

Collier, Malcolm Carr, 1908-1983
Collier, Donald, 1934-2023
Cole, Sonia Mary, 1918-1982
Leakey, Louis, 1903-1972
American Anthropological Association
Education, Higher
Literature and Anthropology
Publications
Research

INVENTORY

Box 1 Folder 1

Sketches, Origins of Humanness, ACSP #1, #12-14, #16-18, #20,

#22-29, circa 1970s

Box 1 Folder 2

Sketches and Diagrams, ACSP #30-32, #34, #37-39, #35-36, #45,

#49, #51, #59, circa 1970s
#36, “Modern Man Evidence Card”
#45, “Form and Function Position of Foramen Magnum”
#49, “Form and Function”
#54, “Form and Function”

Box 1 Folder 3

Sketches and Diagrams, ACSP #62-63, #66-69, #75, #78, #81,

circa 1970s
#62, “Form and Function”
#67, “Form and Function”
#78, “Modern Men Late Pleis”

Box 1 Folder 4

Sketches and Diagrams, ACSP #112A-H, #117-118, #127, #135,

#148-149, circa 1970s
#135, “Mesolithic and Paleolithic Fauna”

Box 2 Folder 1

Sketches, ACSP #150-151, #153, #154-158, #188-195, circa 1970s

#156, “Choukoutien Evidence Card”
#185, “Choukoutien Evidence Card”
#191, “Tabun Evidence Card”
#192, “Tabun Evidence Card”
#193, “Tabun Evidence Card”
#194, “Australopithecine Spine”

Box 2 Folder 2

Sketches, Diagrams, and Maps, ACSP #205, #223-226, #234,

#242, #249, circa 1970s

Box 2 Folder 3

Sketches, Diagrams, and Maps, ACSP #258-259, #274-276, #281,

#283, #290A-D, circa 1970s
#258, “Mousterian Mind”
#281, “Sterkfontein Evidence Card”
#283, “Modern Man Evidence Card”

Box 2 Folder 4

Sketches and Diagrams, ACSP #306, #320-324, #330, #332A-F,

#334, circa 1970s

Box 3 Folder 1

Sketches, Diagrams, and Maps, ACSP #335-345, #348-349, circa

1970s
#336, “Pleistocene Glaciation”
#344, “Dating-1: Absolute Dating”
#345, “Dating-2: Relative Dating”

Box 3 Folder 2

Sketches, Diagrams, Maps, and Photographs, ACSP #350, #353-

362, #364-365, #370, #385, #402-403, #409, #416, #423-431, circa 1970s
#370, “Kalambo Falls: Site AI (1956)”
#402, “Unit 4 Rdgs”
#403, “Choukoutien”
#431, “A Section of the Zinjanthropus Living Floor, Circa 1,750,000 B.C.”

Box 3 Folder 3

Sketches, Diagrams, and Photographs, ACSP #456-457, #459,

#471, #475, #480-481, #484-485, #487, #491, #493-499, circa 1970s
#475, “Unit 4 Rdgs”

Box 4 Folder 1

Photographs, ACSP #501-502, #506, #508, #511, #520, #522-524,

#527, #530, #533-534, “Unit 4 Rdgs”, circa 1970s [1of 2]

Box 4 Folder 2

Photographs, #536, #538, #540-542, #545, #558, #571, “Unit 4

Rdgs”, circa 1970s [2 of 2]

Box 4 Folder 3

Sketches, ACSP #572-#581E-F, #586-587, #592-598, circa 1970s

#586, “Modern Men of the Late Pleistocene”

Box 4 Folder 4

Sketches and Photographs, ACSP #601-602, #606-607, #609,

#611-614, #620-621, circa 1970s
#606, “Brains, Tools, Society”
#609, “Brains, Tools, Society”
#612, “Swartkrans”
#613, “Sterkfontein”
#620, “How to Know”
#621, “How to Know”

Box 4 Folder 5

Sketches and Diagrams, Various pages, circa 1970s

Page 32, “Fossil Chronology”