David Robert Horton (born 1945) is an Australian writer with qualifications and careers in science and the arts.
After this, as a postdoctoral fellow, he conducted research in biogeography, graduating in 1974 at the University of York in northern England, where he continued to work until 1976.
Horton's research between 1974 and 1984 included scincid lizards and biogeography, archaeozoology (sites from the Cape York Peninsula to south-west Tasmania), Pleistocene extinctions, the role of fire in Australian ecosystems, and the Aboriginal occupation of Australia during the Pleistocene.
[1] Horton has had careers in biology, archaeology and publishing and farming, as well as writing and editing many articles and books.
[3] 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.