David Horton

David Robert Horton (born 1945) is an Australian writer with qualifications and careers in science and the arts. He is known for his compilation of the work The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture in 1994, and its accompanying map of Aboriginal groupings across Australia.

Early life, education and research Horton was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1945. He attended John Curtin High School

In 1966 he was awarded Bachelor of Science, majoring in zoology, with Honours at the University of Western Australia, and in 1968 Master of Science (zoology) at the University of New England . He then undertook a Bachelor of Arts at University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, graduating in 1973.

He joined the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) (former name of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) as the institute's osteologist in 1974, the following year taking on the role of paleoecologist. He was acting deputy principal at AIATSIS in 1984, and subsequently appointed manager of the Publications section, until he became Director of Publications in 1988–89 at Aboriginal Studies Press, the publishing arm of AIATSIS, a role he occupied until 1998.

Boards and other He was a member of the International Council for Archaeozoology (IZAC) and of an advisory panel for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 1997.

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