Pleistocene


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Synonyms for Pleistocene

from two million to 11 thousand years ago

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La predominance de faune du type cheval du Pleistocene tardif correspond a celle enregistree sur le versant nord de l'Alaska et montre encore une fois que les conditions qui regnaient dans la partie la plus au nord de la Beringie etaient plus arides que les conditions qui prevalaient dans les regions de l'interieur, comme a Fairbanks ou au Klondike.
According a recent single-origin hypothesis, the straits of Bab Al Mandeb probably witnessed the earliest migrations of modern humans out of northern Arabia to southern Arabia (Oman and GCC countries) and vice versa through this strait during Pleistocene.
The consolidated Pre-Cenozoic substratum of the Middle Polish Anticlinorium is discordantly covered by Cenozoic deposits consisting of Oligocene sandstones and mudstones, Miocene clays, sands, muds and various Pleistocene and Holocene deposits.
The lack of such knowledge is noticeable in the rest of the book, especially on aspects of Pleistocene seafaring, Wallacean archaeology and colonisation scenarios.
The most important question to arise out of EP, then, is whether or not we humans of today are responding to modern life with behavior patterns that are stuck in the Pleistocene Age.
The Clark Quarry local fauna of Glynn County, coastal Georgia, has yielded a diverse Pleistocene (Rancholabrean North American Land Mammal Age [hereafter NALMA]) vertebrate fauna (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
The study published in Nature Communications used Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis and revealed that the only Pleistocene hominin fossil discovered in Mongolia, initially called Mongolanthropus, is in reality a modern human who lived approximately 34 - 35 thousand years ago.
Pleistocene Bostan Formation is widely exposed in the Pishin Belt in western Pakistan.
Hippopotamid material recently excavated in the middle Pleistocene locality of Bhimber (Azad Kashmir, Pakistan) includes an almost complete mandible that provides a better knowledge of the taxon morphology.
You might think that someone like me, born way back in the Pleistocene epoch--the early Pleistocene--would have a leg up in the experience department, but you'd be wrong.
Apart from human remains, they also found bones of giant sloths, ancient elephants and extinct bears from the Pleistocene period, Mexico's Culture Ministry said in a statement.