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The dates for each age can vary by region. On the geologic time scale, the Holocene epoch starts at the end of the last glacial period of the current ice age (c. 10,000 BC) and continues to the present. The beginning of the Mesolithic is usually considered to correspond to the beginning of the Holocene epoch.
The word Holocene was formed from two Ancient Greek words. Hólos is the Greek word for "whole". "Cene" comes from the Greek word kainós (καινός), meaning "new". The concept is that this epoch is "entirely new". [7] [8] [9] The suffix '-cene' is used for all the seven epochs of the Cenozoic Era.
Holocene glacial retreat, the present Holocene or Postglacial period begins 9400: Pre-Boreal sharp rise in temperature over 50 years (B-S), precedes Boreal 8500–6900: Boreal (B-S), rising sea levels, forest replaces tundra in northern Europe 7500–3900: Neolithic Subpluvial/African humid period in North Africa, wet 7000–3000
The current interglacial is known as the Holocene epoch ... sequences of glacial and interglacial periods of the Quaternary Ice Age after characteristic geological ...
A chronology of climatic events of importance for the Last Glacial Period, about the last 120,000 years The Last Glacial Period caused a much lower global sea level.. The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the ...
The Holocene began 11,700 years ago and lasts to the present day. All recorded history and "the Human history" lies within the boundaries of the Holocene Epoch. [28] Human activity is blamed for a mass extinction that began roughly 10,000 years ago, though the species becoming extinct have only been recorded since the Industrial Revolution.
The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.
The Earth is currently in an interglacial period called the Holocene epoch. [1] However, there is debate as to whether it is actually a separate epoch or merely an interglacial period within the Pleistocene epoch. [2] [3] Between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago there was a warm period called the Holocene climatic optimum.