The Holocene corresponds with the rapid proliferation, growth, and impacts of the human species worldwide, including all of its written history, technological revolutions, development of major …

Oct 16, 2025 · Holocene Epoch, younger of the two formally recognized epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period and the latest interval of geologic time, covering approximately the last …

The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years* of the Earth's history the time since the end of the last major glacial epoch, or "ice age."

The Holocene epoch is the geological period extending from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130 calendar years before present (BP) …

To geologists, we live today in the Holocene epoch, the period that began about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, when humans first began practicing agriculture.

Jan 1, 2024 · The Holocene is formally divided into three Stages and Ages: the Greenlandian, Northgrippian and the Meghalayan, equivalent to Upper, Middle and Lower Holocene …

Aug 23, 2025 · Holocene Epoch - Climate, Biota, Human Impact: In formerly glaciated regions, the Holocene has been a time for the reinstitution of ordinary processes of subaerial erosion …

The Holocene is a brief flash of time compared to previous epochs and is, in reality, just an interglacial period of the current ice age. All of recorded human history has occurred entirely …

May 5, 2014 · The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene (at 11,700 calendar years BP) and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the …

The Holocene is the present geological epoch. It started around 11,000 years ago after the last ice age. We are now in a relatively warm climate in Earth's history. This is the second epoch of …