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Holocene epoch

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Noun1.Holocene epoch - approximately the last 10,000 years
Age of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary period - last 2 million years


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The Boskops might have been our intellectual superiors in many valuable and fascinating ways, but of course Homo sapiens in their current form were the only hominins to survive into the Holocene epoch.
00 Hardcover Special paper ; 443 QC984 The first study establishes a new composite curve for the changing sea level in the northern Gulf of Mexico during the Holocene Epoch, that is, since the height of the most recent ice age.
All were between 5,000 and 9,000 years old, a period that marked the beginning of the Holocene epoch in Earth's history.
 
 
 
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