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- Peter White
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John Peter White is an Australian archaeologist and editor. He was born in New Zealand (1937), raised in Australia, and educated at the University of Melbourne (B.A. 1961, History), University of Cambridge (B.A. 1963, M.A. 1967, Archaeology and Anthropology), and the Australian National University (Ph.D. 1968, Prehistory). He was awarded British Commonwealth Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowships (1956–1959, 1961–1963, 1964–1967) and a postdoctoral Harkness Fellowship (1970–1971). He held appointments at Melbourne (Tutor, 1960–1961), the Australian Museum (Assistant Curator, 1967–1970), and the University of California at Berkeley (Postdoctoral Fellow, 1970–1971) before joining the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1971, where he remained until 1992.