David Bryn Whitehouse, FSA, FRGS (15 October 1941 – 17 February 2013) was a British archaeologist and senior scholar of the Corning Museum of Glass.
[5] In 1985, he published an article[6] based on his work as Director of Excavations at Siraf, in which he concluded, "I cannot avoid the conclusion that foreign trade had reached an unprecedented level [from Siraf] and now included direct contact with China".
The discovery in 1998 of the Belitung shipwreck, a Central Asian-in-origin ship, dated to ~826 by experts, and whose salvaged collection of Chinese (Tang Dynasty) trade ceramics is now on display in Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum, proves his conclusion correct.
[8] Whitehouse was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 11 January 1973.
[5] Whitehouse wrote or edited more than 500 scholarly papers, reviews, monographs, and books.