Obituary
Obituary Frederick Everard Zeuner
Cornwall, I. W.
Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Volume 8 Issue 3 (1964), p. 382 - 383
published: Oct 7, 1964
ArtNo. ESP022000803011, Price: 29.00 €
Abstract
Frederick Everard Zeuner died suddenly in London on 5th November 1963, aged 58. The first Professor of Geochronology in any University, he founded, at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London, an unique department of Environmental Archaeology, devoted to the study of the natural environments and chronology of early man in all ages and parts of the world. By training he was a geologist and palaeontologist (Universities of Berlin, Tübingen and Breslau), but his boyhood interest in entomology remained with him all his life, and he was as much an authority on insects, both living and fossil, as he was on the geology, climate, soils, flora and fauna of the Pleistocene period, which were his bestknown specialities. By geomorphologists he will be remembered chiefly as a supporter of the eustatic theory and for his worldwide work on past sea-levels. This, by the sequence of high beaches and planations, not only bears out in detail the sequence of interglacial and interstadial periods inferred from glaciological and other evidence, but provides the most powerful instrument we possess for the correlation of Pleistocene deposits between one region and another, even in different continents or at the antipodes.
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