Theodore E. White

Theodore Elmer White (1905–1977) was an American paleontologist and zooarchaeologist. Theodore E. White pioneered the use of animal remains as indicators of human behavior in archaeological settings.[1] After studying at Kansas University, White went on to earn a PhD in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1935. He spent most of his professional career in the National Park Service, working at Dinosaur National Monument, where he was hired in 1953 as the park's first paleontologist.[2] [3]

Selected publications
  • Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Niobrara River Basin, Nebraska (1947)
  • Collecting Osteological Material or How to Get a Block Plastered
  • Observations On the Butchering Technique of Some Aboriginal Peoples: I (1952)
  • Studying Osteological Material
  • Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado-Utah. The Dinosaur Quarry by John M. Good, Theodore E. White, & Gilbert F. Stucker (2015)

References
  1. Lyman, R. Lee (2016) Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln. Preface.
  2. Lyman, R. Lee (2016) Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln. Preface.
  3. "Utah History Encyclopedia".
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