#holocene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #holocene, aggregated by home.social.
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124 radiocarbon dates, 10,000 years, one high-mountain park: people kept returning to the same Pyrenean shelters across the whole Holocene. The new open database is also candid about how hard those dates are to read as history. #archaeology #Pyrenees #Holocene https://www.anthropology.net/p/ten-thousand-years-in-the-high-pyrenees
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Restos de un hombre de mediados enterrado a comienzos del Holoceno medio (5200-2500 a.C.), en posición recostada hiperflexionada sobre el caparazón de una tortuga de barro de Adanson (Pelusios adansonii), en las orillas de un lago del actual desierto del Teneré. Descubierto en el sitio arqueológico de Gobero. 📷Paul C. Sereno et al., 2008 #holoceno #holocene
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Are Colorado Moose Invasive? New Research Says NO
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https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2026/06/18/are-colorado-moose-invasive-new-research-says-no <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/orpLT22YnKQ?si=aThWWjMhKOUELwuv <-- shared overview video
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https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70279 <-- shared paper
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“The modern Colorado moose is often considered just that: modern - brought to the state by wildlife officials in the late 1970s, preceded by very occasional reports of moose sightings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Since being translocated to Colorado, these charismatic megafauna have been a source of both fascination and concern. In Rocky Mountain National Park [RMNP], where moose populations have thrived, ecosystems have been changing, and moose-associated impacts have sparked renewed conversations about managing an animal labeled “non-native.”
However, newly published research [link above] by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, archivists and Tribal cultural heritage leaders shows that the “non-native” label is inaccurate. They present evidence demonstrating that moose have been in Colorado for at least centuries and likely longer.
The researchers analyzed newspaper archives, archaeological site reports, scientific journals, museum collections and photo archives to understand where and when moose were present in Colorado prior to the mid-1900s. Perhaps most importantly, notes lead author William Taylor, a University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of anthropology and CU Museum curator of archaeology, the scholars sought Indigenous histories, and in doing so found evidence of moose being well known and deeply integrated into traditional knowledge of Native people in the southern Rockies.
Crystal C’Bearing, a study co-author and Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, notes that among the Northern Arapaho, "the moose is considered a valued commodity among the Tribe.” She adds that societies within the Northern Arapaho "utilize many animals, including moose, in their clothing, society items and regalia. This tradition continues today."
The scholarly approach of joining Indigenous knowledge with historical accounts, archaeology and paleontology, "shows the power of multiple independent lines of evidence converging on the conclusion that moose were part of southern Rocky Mountain ecosystems long before modern reintroductions," says study co-author Jonathan Dombrosky of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the University of Alabama. "More broadly, the study demonstrates how historical sciences can help us better understand the origins of modern ecosystems and make more informed decisions about their future…"
#moose #populations #Colorado #USA #native #invasive #introduced #nonnative #translocated #megafauna #herbivore #ungulate #impacts #ecosystems #environment #vegetation #native #indigenous #tribal #FirstNation #archaeology #paleontology #symbology #reporting #historicalscience #history #RockyMountain #Rockies #regional #prehistory #Holocene #biogeography #archaeozoological #modern #premodern #management #archivists -
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx4343
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038181
#HackerNews #languageDiversity #Holocene #history #culturalLinguistics #evolution #ofLanguages #scienceNews
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🐻 For #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 a new #LostBones article is out on Substack! This one is a deep-deep dive into brown bear (Ursus arctos) and giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) in the Midwest and Surrounding areas.
Please share to get out the word!
See it thru the link in my bio or here: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-6-bears-repeating
#Ursusarctos #Arctodussimus #Bears #GiantShortFacedBears #pleistocene #holocene #paleontology #iceage #fossil #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
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For ten thousand years, as waves crashed, currents shifted, and the land heaved upward, it hasn't budged. It has remained perfectly, inexplicably balanced.
Until now.#Spikstenen is the perfect visual metaphor for the #Holocene baseline—the remarkably stable climate epoch that allowed human civilization to flourish.
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Human Disturbances Dominated The Unprecedentedly High Frequency Of Yellow River Flood Over The Last Millennium
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf8576 <-- shared paper
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3000-years-humans-alterations-chinas-yellow-river-created-catastrophic-situation-exists-today-180951815/ <-- shared technical article
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#humanimpacts #anthropogenic #water #hydrography #hydrology #flood #flooding #river #catchment #engineering #riverine #YellowRiver #China #climatechange #extremeweather #floodhazard #risk #hazard #history #historic #sediment #reconstruction #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #levee #breaches #Holocene #geologic #fluvial #sustainability #planning #management #watermanagement #stress #change #dating #radiocarbon #OSL #sampling #paleoflood #overtopping #slackwater #sedimentation #model #modeling #embankment #riverstage #dams -
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• The Anthropocene Shift:The core argument of the Anthropocene is that human activity has broken out of this environmental "Goldilocks zone." The lecture describes this realization as a "second Copernican revolution." While the first Copernican revolution hundreds of years ago displaced humans from the physical center of the universe to a small rock orbiting an ordinary star, the Anthropocene narrative flips this concept
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In contrast, the Holocene served as an abnormally stable 11,000-year interglacial period where global temperatures barely fluctuated. This narrow, predictable band of climate stability was the mandatory prerequisite for human history, allowing for the invention of agriculture, surplus food, cities, writing, and complex civilization.#Holocene
#Anthropocene
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The Holocene vs. The Anthropocene• The Holocene Baseline: The Holocene is the geological epoch that officially characterized the last 11,700 years. Historically, Earth's deep past was marked by extreme volatility—wild swings between grinding ice ages and greenhouse "hot houses."
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Colloque international AniMed
Chevaux dans les contextes archéologiques eurasiatiques au cours de l’Holocène
Université Montpellier Paul-Valéry
16 juin - 19 juin 2026https://animed.hypotheses.org/5193
Les sessions ainsi que la conférence inaugurale* sont libres d’accès et ouvertes au public. Un suivi en visioconférence sera assuré tout au long des différentes sessions.
* par Charles Stépanoff, anthropologue, directeur d'études à l'EHESS
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Late Quaternary Variations in the Level of Paleo-Lake Malheur, Eastern Oregon
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https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.1998.2005 <-- shared paper
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https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/pleistocene-pluvial-lakes/ <-- shared technical article, “Pleistocene Pluvial Lakes” [OR]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_Lake <-- shared Wikipedia page
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#EasternOregon #water #hydrology #geology #surfacewater #paleolake #LakeMalheur #Oregon #SouthernOregon #USA #endorheicbasin #endorheic #quaternary #fluvial #pluvial #fluvial #lacustrine ##Quaternary #Pleistocene #Holocene #PaleoLake #sediment #sedimentary #beaches #gravel #geology #sedimentology #tephra #volcanism #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geologichistory #spatial #mapping #sampling #stratigraphy #dating #radiocarbon #chronology -
Stratigraphic Evidence For Modern-Like Glacier Extents In South-Central Alaska Within The Last Glacial Period (MIS 3)
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https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70043 <-- shared paper
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https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/ancient-glacier-change.htm <-- shared @NPS technical article
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#glacier #Wisconsinan #glaciations #alaska #iceage #sediments #moraines #geology #stratigraphy #model #cryosphere #ice #snow #sedimentary #Chitina #CopperRiver #proglacial #water #hydrology #fluvial #glaciofluvial #glaciolacustrine #fans #Holocene #geomorphology #geomorphometry #landform #hydrogeomorphology #sedimentology #stratigraphic #sampling
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Climatic And Anthropogenic Controls On Late Holocene Sediment Transport To The Gulf Of Mexico By The Mississippi River
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105401 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #hydrography #humanimpacts #human #settlement #anthropogenic #levees #engineering #spatialanalysis #spatialtemporal #erosion #weathering #Mississippi #River #Sediment #Provenance #Zircon #grainsize #alluvial #alluvium #hydrogeomorphology #headwater #coast #coastal #delta #geology #Holocene #geochemistry #Sr #Nd #isotope #Strontium #Neodymium #detrital #climate #GulfofMexico -
Heces del perezoso de Shasta (Nothrotheriops shastensis), encontradas en la cueva Rampart, que vivió en el Pleistoceno y se extinguió en el Holoceno, hace 10000 años. 🏛️Museo Estatal de Arizona #Pleistoceno #Pleistocene #Holoceno #Holocene
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Happy #FossilFriday! 🐴🐘🐪💀 This gorgeous horse mandible comes from Brown County, Minnesota. It was collected by a friend of mine under permit in a state park earlier this year. The bone is deceptively heavy, suggesting it has been partially mineralized. Today, it will be donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for study.
To read more about finds like this, check out my Substack: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/
#browncountyhistory #holocene #pleistocene #equus #palaeontology #fossils #citizenscience
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New year is approaching, fellow hoomahns.
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Unravelling The Dance Of Earthquakes - Evidence Of Partial Synchronization Of The Northern San Andreas Fault And Cascadia Megathrust
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02857.1 <-- shared paper
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“Previous paleoseismic work has suggested a possible stress triggering relationship between the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern San Andreas fault based on similar event timings. Turbidite successions correlated to both systems may support this hypothesis. Historic earthquakes in 1980 and 1992 in the Cascadia subduction zone and the 1906 earthquake on the northern San Andreas fault left turbidite records that are temporally well constrained by bomb-carbon−supported age-depth models..."
#geology #USWest #Seattle #Washington #California #earthquake #engineeringeology #fault #faulting #SanAndreas #Cascadiasubductionzone #linked #Cascadia #research #sediment #sedimentology #Turbidite #paleoseismology #historic #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #stress #subduction #dating #radiocarbon #Holocene -
Eisbohrkern aus Mont-Blanc-Massiv enthält intaktes Klimaarchiv der vergangenen 12.000 Jahre – Gletschereis aus den französischen Alpen gibt Aufschluss über klimatische Veränderungen
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/eisbohrkern-aus-mont-blanc-massiv-enthaelt-intaktes-klimaarchiv-der-vergangenen-12000-jahre
_________Ice Core from Mont Blanc Massif Holds Intact Climate Archive from the Last 12,000 Years – Glacial ice from the French Alps provides information on climatic changes
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/ice-core-from-mont-blanc-massif-holds-intact-climate-archive-from-the-last-12000-years#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #klima #holozän #eisbohrkern #climate #holocene #icecore
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Ancient lakes in the Gobi Desert supported human life 8,000 years ago
The Gobi Desert today is one of the driest and harshest landscapes on Earth, stretching over northern China and Mongolia. Yet, a recent study published in PLOS One reveals that thousands of years ago, the desert was dotted with wetlands and lakes that nourished fertile ground for human life...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/ancient-lakes-in-the-gobi-desert-supported-human-life/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #gobidesert #pleistocene #holocene
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Humans profoundly reshaped mammal communities on a global scale.
"After farming began, just a handful of livestock species spread with humans and scrambled those natural boundaries, reshaping mammal communities worldwide...Large ungulates like horses and cows are important because they monopolize food resources wherever they are in high numbers...At the same time, many wild mammals went extinct, in each case following human arrival—not during a particular worldwide climate change episode."
"Post-extinction ecosystems have not been truly natural for the last 10,000 years or more, so national parks in the hardest-hit regions, such as Australia and the Americas, lack over half of the native large mammal species that would have been present if not for humans. Over the last 10,000 years or so, humans have overseen the wholesale replacement of native mammal communities with a very limited set of domesticated species."
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How humans reshaped the animal world: Research traces 50,000 years of change
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-humans-reshaped-animal-world-years.html"These findings underscore how human-driven extinctions, agriculture and resource extraction profoundly reshaped mammal community structures. How we manage these interactions today will determine whether mammal communities become resilient or increasingly destabilized."
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Barry W. Brook et al, Late Pleistocene faunal community patterns disrupted by Holocene human impacts, Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0151
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0151
#ecosystems #biosphere #biodiversity #wildlife #nativespecies #mammals #holocene #extinctions #disruption #fauna #NovelAssemblages #NPs #nature #ungulates #livestock #HumanDriven #NicheModification #monoculture #Australia #extractivism -
@infobeautiful oh wow :O i had no idea about this
"#Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank (after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers), which formed a highland region that became submerged later than the rest of Doggerland.
The archaeological interest intensified in 1931 when a fishing trawler dragged up a barbed antler point that was subsequently dated to a time when the area was tundra. Vessels have since dragged up remains of mammoths, lions and other animals, and a few prehistoric tools and weapons. Most #archaeological evidence of human habitation dates to the #Mesolithic period during the early #Holocene."
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Land-Sea Linkages In The Arctic – What Is Paleoclimatology?
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https://www.usgs.gov/programs/ecosystems-land-change-science-program/science/land-sea-linkages-arctic <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000333 <-- shared example of paper
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https://doi.org/10.47894/mpal.69.3.04 <-- shared example of paper
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[who doesn’t like a good foraminifera! (memories of staring down a microscope for hours at grad school) 😊 ]
#fedscience #Paleoclimatology #Paleoecology #Paleooceanography #Icesheet #climatechange #Paleoanthropology #Seaice #Marineecosystems #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #spatiotemporal #foraminifera #arctic #change #cryosphere #ArcticOcean #glacial #interglacial #Holocene #future -
Prehistoric animal remains in Iran’s Wezmeh Cave reveal Zagros biodiversity
In a breakthrough discovery revealing ancient biodiversity and the first human-animal interaction, archaeologists found a collection of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene animal remains from Wezmeh Cave in the western Zagros Mountains of Iran, near Kermanshah...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/prehistoric-animal-remains-in-irans-wezmeh-cave/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #wezmehcave #pleistocene #holocene #zooarchaeology