Theodore Wertime

[4] Wertime also worked as a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.

[2] His 1968 survey was his largest and most ambitious expedition that covered several countries and was funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society.

He gathered a multidisciplinary team: Robert Brill (glass, glazes, and metals), Sam Bingham (photographer), Fred Klinger (geologist), Fred Matson (ceramics), Ezzat Negahban (archaeology), Radomír Pleiner, Beno Rothenberg and Ronald F. Tylecote (archaeometallurgists), and John Wertime (Wertime's son and interpreter).

[1] While Wertime worked as a cultural attache, he gained some proficiency in local languages, that helped in his expeditions.

They had four sons, John T., Richard A., Steven F. and Charles M.[3][4] He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Falling Spring.