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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holocene \Holocene\ n. 1. The geological period comprising approximately the last 10,000 years.
Syn: Holocene epoch, Recent epoch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to the epoch that began 10,000 years ago and continues today, 1897, from French holocène (1867), from Greek holo-, comb. form of holos "whole" (see safe (adj.)) + -cene.
Wikipedia
The Holocene is the geological epoch that began after the Pleistocene at approximately 9,700 BCE and continues to the present. The term "Recent" (usually capitalised) has often been used as an exact synonym of "Holocene", although this usage is discouraged in 21st-century science. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek words (holos, whole or entire) and (kainos, new), meaning "entirely recent". It has been identified with the current warm period, known as MIS 1, and can be considered an interglacial in the current ice age based on that evidence.
The Holocene also encompasses the growth and impacts of the human species worldwide, including all its written history, development of major civilizations, and overall significant transition toward urban living in the present. Human impacts on modern-era Earth and its ecosystems may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species, including approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence of human impacts. Given these, a new term, Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally only for the very latest part of modern history involving significant human impact.
"Holocene" is a song by American indie folk band Bon Iver. It was released as the second single from their eponymous album Bon Iver, Bon Iver on September 5, 2011. The single is backed with a cover of Peter Gabriel's song "Come Talk to Me" as a B-side, which was previously released as a limited edition song for Record Store Day. The song was named one of the best songs of 2011 by various music publications. It was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year for the 54th Grammy Awards, and is featured in the Cameron Crowe film We Bought a Zoo, Zach Braff's film Wish I Was Here, and the 2014 film The Judge.
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.