Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial.

As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more ...

The boundary between the preceding epochs, the Pleistocene and Holocene, says Encyclopaedia Britannica, is “around 10,300 ± 200 years” ago. Perhaps it makes sense for the Anthropocene start ...

It contains the longest known records of human interaction with rainforest, spanning at least 50,000 years, from the Pleistocene to the Mid-Holocene periods. The rich archaeological deposits, ...