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On the geologic time scale, the Holocene epoch starts at the end of the last glacial period of the current ice age (c. 10,000 BC) and continues to the present. The beginning of the Mesolithic is usually considered to correspond to the beginning of the Holocene epoch.
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name [1] that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.
Jōmon period c. 10,000 – 300 BCE Yayoi period c. 300 BCE – 250 CE Yamato period c. 250 – 710 CE China China Periods: Paleolithic c. 1.36 million years ago Neolithic period c. 10,000 – 2100 BCE Ancient China c. 2100 – 221 BCE Imperial period c. 221 BCE – 1911 CE Modern period. Americas North America North America: Lithic/Paleo ...
National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. [161] dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food [162] and on driver's licenses. d/m format is used casually, when the year is obvious from the context, and for date ranges, e.g. 28-31/8 for 28–31 August.
Time span and etymology of geologic system/period names Name Time span Duration (million years) Etymology of name Quaternary: 2.58 First introduced by Jules Desnoyers in 1829 for sediments in France's Seine Basin that appeared to be younger than Tertiary [note 3] rocks. [22] Neogene: 20.46
In Uganda, the ordering "traditional family name first, Western origin given name second" is also frequently used. [17] When East Asian names are transliterated into the Latin alphabet, some people prefer to convert them to the Western order, while others leave them in the Eastern order but write the family name in capital letters. To avoid ...
In the United States, the name Ariana peaked at the 30th most popular name for baby girls in 2014, and was in the top 40th to 100th most popular names during the first and second decades of the 21st century. [14] Arianna also peaked in 2014, at 40th place, and was in the top 50 to low 100s range in the same period. [14]
Candidates of Hominina or Homininae species which lived in this time period include Graecopithecus (c. 7 Ma), Sahelanthropus tchadensis (c. 7 Ma), Orrorin tugenensis (c. 6 Ma). Ardipithecus Ardipithecus is, or may be, a very early hominin genus (tribe Hominini and subtribe Hominina).