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  2. Holocene calendar - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    160,000 years ago, Homo sapiens idaltu in the Awash River Valley (near present-day Herto village, Ethiopia) practiced excarnation. [59] 130–80 ka Marine Isotope Stage 5 . Modern human presence in Southern Africa and West Africa. [60] Appearance of mitochondrial haplogroup (mt-haplogroup) L2. 80–50 ka MIS 4, beginning of the Upper Paleolithic.

  4. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    The earliest evidence for life on Earth includes: 3.8 billion-year-old biogenic hematite in a banded iron formation of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada; [30] graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in western Greenland; [31] and microbial mat fossils in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia.

  5. 10th millennium BC - Wikipedia

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    The 10th millennium BC spanned the years 10,000 BC to 9001 BC (c. 12 ka to c. 11 ka). It marks the beginning of the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic via the interim Mesolithic (Northern Europe and Western Europe) and Epipaleolithic (Levant and Near East) periods, which together form the first part of the Holocene epoch that is generally believed to have begun c. 9700 BC (c. 11 ...

  6. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago [d] from the species Homo heidelbergensis. [e] [20] Humans continued to develop over the succeeding millennia, and by 100,000 years ago, were using jewelry and ocher to adorn the body. [21] By 50,000 years ago, they buried their dead, used projectile weapons, and engaged in seafaring. [22]

  7. A Scientist Says He Has Evidence That Ice-Age Humans ... - AOL

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    Scientist Says Maryland Was Home to Ice-Age Humans Denis-Art - Getty Images. ... to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. Lowery now believes humans were present in Maryland around the same time ...

  8. Movie Review: Humans take a back seat in the stunning ... - AOL

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    As the retired special forces guy cleaning up nuclear debris, Joshua (John David Washington), flatly tells a fellow worker when she posits that the AIs were indeed after their jobs: “They can ...

  9. Giant armadillo fossil reveals humans were in South America a ...

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    Along with three perforated giant sloth bones found in Brazil that archaeologists believe humans used as pendants 25,000 to 27,000 years ago, the butchered armadillo bones suggest that humans were ...