Troy Case, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is a biological anthropologist interested in human skeletal variation and bioarchaeology. He has published a number of articles on congenital and developmental anomalies and their potential for identifying family members from archaeological cemeteries. He has also co-edited a book entitled “Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction”, that explores the prehistoric Ohio Hopewell Indians from a bioarchaeological perspective. Dr. Case is coauthoring another book on the Ohio Hopewell Indians entitled “The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors.”
Education:
~ Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology, Arizona State University
~ M.A. in Bioarchaeology, Arizona State University
~ B.A. in Religious Studies, Willamette University
Research Interests:
~ Bioarchaeology
~ Paleopathology
~ Skeletal defects and anomalies
~ Skeletal kinship analysis
~ Scandinavia, North America, East Asia
