Background
Zeuner was born in Berlin, Germany, and received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Breslau in 1927.
Zeuner was born in Berlin, Germany, and received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Breslau in 1927.
Zeuner proposed a detailed scheme of correlation and dating of European climatic and prehistoric cultural events on the basis of Milankovitch cycles. Zeuner was lecturer in geochronology at the University of London"s Institute of Archaeology from 1936 to 1945 and received is Doctorate. Science from the university in 1942. From 1946 to 1963 he was professor and head of environmental archaeology at the University of London"s Institute of Archaeology.
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 Royal Anthropological Institute.