Ivar Skarland (September 2, 1899 – January 1, 1965) was a Norwegian anthropologist.Ivar Skarland by Laurence Irving
Skarland was born in Høylandet Municipality, Norway, on September 2, 1899. He earned a diploma from the Steinkjer School of Forestry in Norway 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 Harvard University and in 1948 received a Ph.D. from the same institution. He was a student of Earnest Hooton.Of Caves and Shell Mounds by Patty Jo Watson, Southeastern Archeological Conference He worked with Otto W. Geist.Obituary for Ivar Skarland 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
External links The geography and archaeology of Alaska in Pleistocene and early post-glacial time Manuscript at Dartmouth College Library