Jill Scott

Jill is a biological anthropology graduate student at the University of Iowa with a focus on paleoanthropology. She received her BA in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2006. She has completed paleontological fieldwork in southeastern Montana in 2003, both historic and prehistoric archaeological fieldwork in western and southern Illinois in 2005, and paleoanthropological fieldwork in South Africa in both 2006 (Gladysvale Cave) and 2007 (the Meloding Railway Cut). Jill’s current research interests broadly center on the evolution of and interregional population relationships within the genus Homo during the Middle Pleistocene throughout the Old World. More specifically, Jill’s research focuses on assessing the evolutionary significance of the chin in Homo sapiens in collaboration with researchers in the University of Iowa Department of Orthodontics. Additionally, Jill has a strong interest in the history of the field of physical anthropology, and she is currently a teaching assistant for Human Origins.