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

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.

“The study clearly shows that the famous Pleistocene-Holocene extinction was a long-term process of diversity loss of the Pleistocene mammals,” Ismar de Souza Carvalho, one of the researchers ...

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 ...

We probe the changes, adaptations, and evolutionary processes of prehistoric Americans from first peoples of the continents in the Late Pleistocene through the Holocene. Our research thus is global, ...

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, ...