Holocene calendar
Sign in to saveAlso known as Human Era, Holocene Era, HE, Human Era calendar, Holocene Era calendar
calendar era that uses 10,000 BC as 1 HE
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- calendar reform
- Named after
- Holocene
- Creator
- Cesare Emiliani
Show 3 more facts
- inception
- 10000-00-0
- described at URL
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDnoTk5mOQc
- uses
- annum
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
↓ Future v t e
The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements. The current year by the Gregorian calendar, AD 2026, is 12026 HE in the Holocene calendar. The HE scheme was first proposed by Cesare Emiliani in 1993 (11993 HE), though similar proposals to start a new calendar at the same date had been put forward decades earlier. Emiliani thereby dismissed his original proposal to align the era with the 7980-year Julian cycles, i.e. start with the epoch in 4713 BCE (5288 HE).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Holocene calendar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.