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Dr. Troy Case

Dr. Troy Case is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.  He received his M.A. in Bioarchaeology from Arizona State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from Arizona State in 2003, the same year he joined the NC State faculty.  His primary fields of teaching and research are in human osteology, which is the study of the human skeleton from an anatomical perspective, and in bioarchaeology, which is the study of human remains from archaeological sites.  His areas of specific expertise include congenital anomalies of the hands and feet, their utility in identifying family members in ancient cemeteries, and the study of prehistoric skeletal remains and their mortuary contexts in order to better understand the the social organizations and world views of past peoples.  Dr. Case teaches Introduction to Physical Anthropology, and Disease and Society at the undergraduate level, as well as Human Osteology and Bioarchaeology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  

From 2000-2001, Dr. Case spent a year in Denmark as a Fulbright scholar while conducting dissertation research on congenital anomalies among skeletons excavated from several medieval church cemeteries.  He has also conducted research on skeletal defects in Great Britain, Japan, and Thailand, and has published several journal articles on these topics.  In 2006, Dr. Case joined a select team of physical anthropologists to study the 9300 year old Kennewick Man skeleton, one of the oldest and best-preserved ancient skeletons ever discovered in North America.  The team is currently preparing a monograph on the subject for publication.  Dr. Case has also published two books on the social organization and ritual practices of the prehistoric Ohio Hopewell Indians.  He is co-editor of Gathering Hopewell:  Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction (2005), and coauthor of The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding (2008).  Gathering Hopewell was nominated for the Society for American Archaeology annual book prize in 2006, and The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors was nominated for the same prize in 2009.   

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