Ivar Skarland (September 2, 1899 – January 1, 1965) was a Norwegian

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

. Skarland was born in

Høylandet Municipality Høylandet is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Høylandet. Other villages include Kongsmoen and Vassbotna. The municipality is the ...

, Norway, on September 2, 1899. He earned a diploma from the Steinkjer School of Forestry in

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in 1921 before moving to the United States for further education. He studied English at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, graduating in 1935. In 1942, he was awarded a master's degree in Anthropology from

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and in 1948 received a Ph.D. from the same institution. He was a student of

Earnest Hooton Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book ''Up From The Ape''. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, ...

. He worked with Otto W. Geist.Obituary for Ivar Skarland
/ref> In 1965, Mount Skarland in the Alaska Range was officially named after him.United States Board on Geographic Names, ''Decisions on Geographic Names in the United States''
Decision List No. 6504, (1966), page 5.

Works

* ''The Geography and Archaeology of Alaska in Pleistocene and Early Post-glacial Time'' (1949)

References

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''The geography and archaeology of Alaska in Pleistocene and early post-glacial time'' Manuscript
at Dartmouth College Library 1889 births 1965 deaths Harvard University alumni Norwegian anthropologists University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty 20th-century anthropologists People from Høylandet {{Anthropologist-stub