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Frederick Everard Zeuner

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German palaeontologist and archaeologist (1905-1963)

United KingdomAcademicsLived 1905 to 1963 · aged 58
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Frederick Everard Zeuner was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who specialized on the Pleistocene epoch. He was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London.

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Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

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Frederick Everard Zeuner was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who specialized on the Pleistocene epoch. He was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London. Zeuner proposed a detailed scheme of correlation and dating of European climatic and prehistoric cultural events on the basis of Milankovitch cycles. He also worked on Orthopteran insects, with the bush cricket genus Zeuneriana named after him. He has been considered as a pioneer of environmental archaeology.

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United Kingdom
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deceased
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Lived 1905 to 1963 · aged 58
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