"Biotic changes have been used to demarcate epochs in the past, so this analysis gives us valuable context to understand if what we're seeing today is fundamentally similar in magnitude to what we ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

The archaeological deposit of cave site Wee Jasper 99 (WJ99), in the foothills of the Namadgi Ranges, spans an uninterrupted 12,000 years beginning in the terminal Pleistocene. Archaeological patterns ...

Earth’s geological timeline goes back 540 million years and gives us a picture, so to speak, of the history of our planet that we can read in the sediments found in rock layers, or strata. The ...

The wish, need or preference to pin down a precise official start date for the Anthropocene is curious. The boundary between the preceding epochs, the Pleistocene and Holocene, says Encyclopaedia ...