David Whitehouse
Definition:
British archaeologist and museum director David Whitehouse is probably best known in archaeological circles for eight seasons of excavation at the 9th-15th century AD mosque called Siraf on Iran's gulf coast. Whitehouse also conducted research in the United Kingdom, Italy, Afghanistan, and Libya. Trained at Cambridge, Whitehouse was Director of the British Institute of Afghan Studies and The British School at Rome, before taking a position at the Corning Glass Museum in Ithaca, New York, where he is currently Executive Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass.
Whitehouse, David. 2000. The Corning Museum of Glass: a decade of glass collecting, 1990-1999. Corning, N.Y.: The Museum: New York.
---1988. Glass of the Roman Empire. Corning, N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass
--- and Ruth Whitehouse. 1975. Archaeological atlas of the world. With 103 maps drawn by John Woodcock and Shalom Schotten. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Sources for the term include the references listed on the front page of the Dictionary, and the websites listed in the sidebar.
British archaeologist and museum director David Whitehouse is probably best known in archaeological circles for eight seasons of excavation at the 9th-15th century AD mosque called Siraf on Iran's gulf coast. Whitehouse also conducted research in the United Kingdom, Italy, Afghanistan, and Libya. Trained at Cambridge, Whitehouse was Director of the British Institute of Afghan Studies and The British School at Rome, before taking a position at the Corning Glass Museum in Ithaca, New York, where he is currently Executive Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass.
Whitehouse, David. 2000. The Corning Museum of Glass: a decade of glass collecting, 1990-1999. Corning, N.Y.: The Museum: New York.
---1988. Glass of the Roman Empire. Corning, N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass
--- and Ruth Whitehouse. 1975. Archaeological atlas of the world. With 103 maps drawn by John Woodcock and Shalom Schotten. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Sources for the term include the references listed on the front page of the Dictionary, and the websites listed in the sidebar.