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G. Richard Scott
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology; Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Ph.D., Arizona State University.

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Research Interests:
My research has focused on dental anthropology and skeletal biology, with special emphasis on tooth morphology and bioarchaeology. Geographically, I have worked with groups in the American Southwest, Arctic, and North Atlantic (Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Denmark). Arctic research has been funded, in part, by the Smithsonian Institution.

Teaching:
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in physical anthropology, including Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Physical Anthropology of the New World, and Quantitative Methods in Anthropology.

Selected Publications:
Scott, G. R., and A. A. Dahlberg. 1982. "Microdifferentation in Tooth Crown Morphology among Indians of the American Southwest." In Teeth: Form, Function and Evolution, edited by B. Kurten, pp. 259-291. Columbia University Press, New York.

Scott, G. R., and C. G. Turner II. 1988. "Dental Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 17:99-126.

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. 1997. The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent Human Populations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Scott, G. R., S. Legge, R. W. Lane, S. L. Steen, and S. R. Street. 2000. "Physical Anthropology of the Arctic." In The Arctic: Environment, People, Policy, edited by M. Nuttall and T. V. Callaghan, pp. 339-373. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam.