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The Holocene (/ ˈhɒl.əsiːn, - oʊ -, ˈhoʊ.lə -, - loʊ -/) [ 2 ][ 3 ] is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. [ 4 ] It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. [ 4 ] The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene [ 5 ] together form the Quaternary period.
The first ever version of Minecraft was released in May 2009, [11] but client-side modding of the game did not become popular in earnest until the game reached its alpha stage in June 2010. The only mods that were released during Minecraft 's Indev and Infdev development stages were a few client-side mods that had minor changes to the game.
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 .
2b2t.org (server) [ 5 ] 2b2t (2builders2tools) is a Minecraft server founded in December 2010. 2b2t has essentially no rules and players are not permanently banned, known within Minecraft as an " anarchy server". [ 2 ] As a result, players commonly engage in the destruction of other players' and groups creations, colloquially called " griefing ...
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 Holocene Climate Optimum (HCO) was a warm period in the first half of the Holocene epoch, that occurred in the interval roughly 9,500 to 5,500 years BP, [ 1 ] with a thermal maximum around 8000 years BP. It has also been known by many other names, such as Altithermal, Climatic Optimum, Holocene Megathermal, Holocene Optimum, Holocene ...
This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total. Holocene Africa (2 C, 2 P) Holocene Asia (2 C, 52 P) Holocene North America (4 C, 18 P) Holocene Oceania (4 C, 10 P) Holocene South America (3 C, 1 P)
Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator The term Anthropocene is informally used in scientific contexts. The Geological Society of America entitled its 2011 annual meeting: Archean to Anthropocene: The past is the key to the future. The new epoch has no agreed start-date, but one proposal, based on atmospheric evidence, is to fix the start with the Industrial Revolution c. 1780, with the invention ...