• Discover Nevada
• Admissions
• Academics
• Student Life
• Research
• Partnerships

G. Richard Scott

Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology
Ph.D. Arizona State University
Ansari Business, Room 512A
grscott@unr.edu
(775) 682-7630

Specializations

Physical Anthropology, Dental Anthropology, Skeletal Biology, American Southwest, North Atlantic, Arctic, Spain

Research

Dental anthropological analysis of medieval European populations, with special emphasis on analysis of nonmetric crown and root traits, dental pathology, stress and cultural behavior. Continued research on bioarchaeology of Alaskan Inuit populations and Greenlandic Norse.

Teaching

• Anth 102 (Introduction to Physical Anthropology)
• Anth 444 (Bioarchaeology)
• Anth 460 (Primate Evolution)
• Anth 468 (Forensic Anthropology)
• Anth 479: (Selected topics: Physical Anthropology of the New World)
• Anth 704 (Seminar in Physical Anthropology)
• Proposed fall 2009: Paleoanthropology; Dental Anthropology

Selected Publications

• Scott, G.R. and J.D. Irish (eds). 2013. Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: Genetics, Evolution, Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Scott, G.R., A. Anta, C. de la Rua, and R. Schomberg. 2013. Basque dental morphology and the "Eurodont" dental pattern. In: Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: Genetics, Evolution, Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 296-318.
• Scott, G.R. and J.D. Irish (eds). 2013. Introduction. In: Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: Genetics, Evolution, Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-15.
• Scott, G.R. 2013. Dental anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. London: Elsevier.
• Scott, G.R. and S.R. Paulson. 2012. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human dental calculus: a potentially new non-destructive proxy for paleodietary analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 39:1388-1393.
• Scott, G.R. and J.R. Winn. 2011. Dental Chipping: Contrasting Patterns of Microtrauma in Inuit and European Populations. International Journal of Osteology 21:723-731.
• Lee, C. and G.R. Scott. 2011. Brief Communication: Two-Rooted Lower Canines-A European Trait and Sensitive Indicator of Admixture Across Eurasia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146:481-485.
• Scott, G.R. and S. McMurry. 2011. The delicate question: cannibalism in prehistoric and historic times. In: The Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party's Alder Creek Camp, K.J. Dixon, J.M. Schablitsky, and S.A. Novak (eds.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 219-252.
• Scott, G.R. and D. O'Rourke. 2010. Genes Across Beringia: A Physical Anthropological Perspective on the Dene-Yeniseian Hypothesis. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 5:121-139.
• Delgado-Burbano, M.B., G.R. Scott, and C.G. Turner II. 2010. The Uto-Aztecan premolar among North and South Amerindians: geographic variation and genetics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143:570-578.
• Dixon, K.D., S.A. Novak, G. Robbins, J.M. Schablitsky, G.R. Scott, and G.L. Tasa. 2010. "Men, women, and children starving": archaeology of the Donner family camp. American Antiquity 75:627-656.
• Scott, G.R. and R. Burgett. 2008. Tooth tool use and yarn production in Norse Greenland. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 6(1-2):255-266.
• Scott, G.R. and C.G. Turner II. 2008. The physical anthropological intermediacy problem of Na-Dené/Greater Northwest Coast Indians. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 6(1-2): 57-68.
• Scott, G.R. 2008. Dental morphology. In Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, Second edition. Anne Katzenburg and Shelley Saunders (eds.), pp. 265-298, New York: Wiley-Liss.
• Scott, G.R. and C. G. Turner II. 2006 Dentition. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 3, Environment, Origins, and Population, Doug Ubelaker (ed.), pp. 645-660, Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
• Scott, G.R. and C.G. Turner II. 1997. The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent Human Populations. 382 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Scott, G.R. 1992. Affinities of prehistoric and modern Kodiak Islanders and the question of Kachemak-Koniag biological continuity. Arctic Anthropology 29:150-166.
• Scott, G.R., C.M. Halffman, and P.O. Pedersen. 1992. Dental conditions of medieval Norsemen in the North Atlantic. Acta Archaeologica 62:183-207.
• Scott, G.R. and C.G. Turner II. 1988. Dental anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 17:99-126.
• Scott, G.R. and R.H.Y. Potter. 1984. An analysis of tooth crown morphology in American white twins. Anthropologie (Brno) 22:223-231.
• Scott, G.R., R.H.Y. Potter, J.F. Noss, A.A. Dahlberg, and T. Dahlberg. 1983. The dental morphology of Pima Indians. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 61:13-31.
• Scott, G.R. 1980. Population variation of Carabelli's trait. Human Biology 52:63-78.