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Noun: Holocene epoch
  1. The current geological epoch, spanning approximately the last 11,700 years
    "The Holocene epoch began after the last ice age";
    - Holocene, Recent, Recent epoch

Type of: epoch

Part of: Age of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary period

Encyclopedia: Holocene epoch