Late Pleistocene
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The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the
Image of Nazlet Khater skeleton found in Upper Egypt showing early human culture dating back to approximately 30–40 Ka
Late Pleistocene in northern Spain. Left to right: wild horse, woolly mammoth, reindeer, cave lion, woolly rhinoceros.
Environment of what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico, with Columbian mammoths, a ground sloth, dire wolves, lions, camels, and saber-toothed cats.
Quaternary
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The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, as well as the current and most recen
Late Pleistocene
…known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently defined as the time between c. 129,000 and c. 11,700 years ago. The late Pleistocene equates to the proposed Tarantian Age of…
Artist's impression of Earth during the Last Glacial Maximum
Land ocean ice cloud hires