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Usage examples of holocene.

Oakley found the Castenedolo bones had a nitrogen content similar to that of bones from Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian sites and thus concluded the Castenedolo bones were recent.

Day and Molleson showed that Holocene and Late Pleistocene beds at other sites in Java contained bones with fluorine-to-phosphate ratios similar to those of the Trinil bones.

This is consistent with all of the bones being of the same early Middle Pleistocene age, although Day and Molleson did report that nitrogen in bone is lost so rapidly in Java that even Holocene bones often have no nitrogen.

However, the absence of Pleistocene fauna associated with the artifacts was viewed by some researchers to imply that these levels might be Holocene in age.

Mammuthus primigenius indicated a late Pleistocene or early Holocene age.

The northern distribution of these sites, coupled with the results of the residue analysis, suggests that mammoth may have survived into the very late Pleistocene or early Holocene in northern areas of eastern Beringia.

As soon as my leave started in the summer of 1990 I began my synthesis of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of eastern Beringia.

And, of course, to await the arrival of what I like to call the Holocene Discontinuity.

Instead, we were given the period of unusual tranquility known as the Holocene, the time in which we live now.

Nicholas saw it: just a couple of big gorillas in the mimosa trees, hooting at one another across the Holocene plain.

North American continent, we would have expected merely to confirm that the salinity of that ocean is about the same as average oceanic salinity in the Holocene, but that oceanic oxygen content is low, barely a third of the Holocene.

From the Triassic to the Holocene, from Pangaea through the breakup of the supercontinent into what eventually became the modern configuration of continents, he liked to find his pencils sharp and where he expected them to be.

We think Hic may be from the late Pleistocene or early Holocene and got his charge in some cataclysm that was dramatic enough to make a Neanderthal aware.