Border, Andrew P. (1954 - 2024)

Summary

Andrew Border was an archaeologist most of whose work was in central Queensland and offshore islands. His studies involved close relations with Aboriginal People, including the Darumbal and Waanyi .For some years Border worked for the Queensland Government as Regional Manager (Cultural Heritage) in Townsville, with responsibility down to Mackay and west to the Queensland - Northern Territory border. Between 2002 and 2004 he was a Principal Investigator (with Judith Field and Mike Archer) on Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP0211430, titled 'Riversleigh and Cuddie Springs: unravelling key factors in the extinction of Late Pleistocene megafauna'. From 2007 he worked exclusively as a consultant. Such was his rapport with Indigenous People that after his death his ashes were scattered on Country by several of the groups with which he worked. Some of his publications remain landmarks in their field.

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Chronology

1981 - 1990

Career position - Heritage management consultancy

1985

Education - BA (hons), University of New England

1990 - 2006

Career position - Regional Manager (Cultural Heritage) in Townsville, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage

2006 - 2023

Career position - Heritage management consultancy

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Border, A., 'Aboriginal settlement of offshore islands in the southern Great Barrier Reef province, central Queensland' in Australian coastal archaeology, J. Hall and I.J. McNiven, eds (Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999), pp. 129-39. Details
• Border, A. P., 'Shoalwater Bay military training area (SWBTA): a review of cultural heritage resources, their significance and land-use' in Commonwealth Commission of Inquiry Shoalwater Bay. Capricornia Coast, Queensland. Research Reports No. 5, vol. A (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994), pp. 173-233. Details

Journal Articles

• Godwin, Luke, Fullagar, Richard, Gannon, Bill and McNiven, Ian, 'Andrew Border (20 July 1954 - 11 March 2024): AB - archaeologist, cook, good bloke', Australian archaeology, 90 (2) (2024), 257-60, https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2024.2381329. Details
• Rowland, M. J., Border, A. and Smith, J. R., 'Archaeological research and management: a biogeographical approach', Australian archaeology, 38 (1) (1994), 23-8. Details
• Slack, M., Fullagar, R. Border, A., Diamond, J. and Field, J., 'Late Holocene occupation at Bunnengalla 1, Musselbrook Creek, northwest Queensland', Australian archaeology, 60 (1) (2005), 54-8. Details
• Slack, M., Fullagar, R., Field, J. and Border, A., 'New Pleistocene ages for backed artefact technology in Australia', Archaeology in Oceania, 39 (3) (2004), 131-7. Details

Theses

• Border, A. P., 'Unchartered waters: hunter-gatherer specialisation on the Central Queensland coast', BAHons thesis, University of New England, 1985, 182 pp. Details