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100:- CARA) worked as a research associate at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1934-36. During World War II he worked with the Anti-Locust Research Centre. Zeuner became a lecturer in geochronology at the University of London's Institute of Archaeology from 1936 to 1945 thanks to assistance from 91:
in 1927. At Breslau he was a student of Walther Soergel. After working as a Privatdozent at the University of Breslau from 1927-1930 and a lecturer in geology at the University of Freiburg from 1931-34 he emigrated to England after being dismissed from university because his wife Etta was Jewish. He
108:. In 1944 he was promoted to a professorship. From 1946 to 1963 he was professor, the first in Environmental Archaeology, and head of environmental archaeology at the University of London's Institute of Archaeology, where postgraduate students included 124:(1963). He was a member of the Geologische Vereinigung in Germany and was admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (1952). He was also a member of the 325: 120:(1946). He was involved in examinations of excavated material from the Neolithic and he made use of radiocarbon dating. This would lead to another major work 320: 116:(1945). In it he made use of chronology estimation based on sea-levels, glacial moraine, loess and river terraces. This was followed by another book on 340: 97: 315: 87:
Zeuner was born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Berlin followed by Tubingen and finally received his Ph.D. from the
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named after him. He has been considered as a pioneer of environmental archaeology.
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Zeuner FE (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in
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The Pleistocene Period: Its Climate, Chronology, and Faunal Successions
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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was aided by the Academic Assistance Council (founded by
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Prehistory in India: Four Broadcast Talks on Early Man
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F. E. Zeuner
palaeontologist
geological archaeologist
Pleistocene epoch
Gordon Childe
Institute of Archaeology
University of London
prehistoric
Milankovitch cycles
Orthopteran
bush cricket
Zeuneriana
University of Breslau
William Beveridge
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
Mortimer Wheeler
Ensifera
Andrée Rosenfeld
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Dating the Past: An Introduction to Geochronology
Prehistory in India: Four Broadcast Talks on Early Man
The Pleistocene Period: Its Climate, Chronology, and Faunal Successions
A history of domesticated animals
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9780816621453
"Frederic Everard Zeuner - a student's appreciation and appraisal"
"Profesor Frederick Everard Zeuner"
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Archaeologists from Berlin
Fellows of the Zoological Society of London

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