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Holocene

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Holocene

Summary

Holocene is an epoch[1]. Holocene ranks in the top 5% of epoch entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,838 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Holocene's image is recorded as Mollweide.jpg[3].
  • Holocene's image is recorded as Tadrart Acacus 1.jpg[4].
  • Holocene's image is recorded as VeyoVolcano.jpg[5].
  • Holocene's instance of is recorded as epoch[6].
  • Holocene's instance of is recorded as series[7].
  • Holocene's follows is recorded as Pleistocene[8].
  • Holocene's GND ID is recorded as 4160492-1[9].
  • Holocene's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85097145[10].
  • Holocene's part of is recorded as Quaternary[11].
  • Holocene's part of is recorded as ICS Standard Global Chronostratigraphic (Geochronologic) Scale[12].
  • Holocene's Commons category is recorded as Holocene[13].
  • Holocene's said to be the same as is recorded as current interglacial[14].
  • Holocene's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as FEEBD2[15].
  • Holocene's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 37376[16].
  • Holocene's has part is recorded as Greenlandian[17].
  • Holocene's has part is recorded as Northgrippian[18].
  • Holocene's has part is recorded as Meghalayan[19].
  • Holocene's start time is recorded as -9701-00-00T00:00:00Z[20].
  • Holocene's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03hsz[21].
  • Holocene's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph138119[22].
  • Holocene's significant event is recorded as Iron Age Cold Epoch[23].
  • Holocene's significant event is recorded as Middle Bronze Age Cold Epoch[24].
  • Holocene's significant event is recorded as Medieval Warm Period[25].
  • Holocene's significant event is recorded as Holocene climatic optimum[26].
  • Holocene's IPA transcription is recorded as /ˈhɒl.əsiːn/[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Holocene include Holocene calendar[28], a calendar system[29], founded in 1993[30].

Why It Matters

Holocene ranks in the top 5% of epoch entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,838 views/month).[2] Holocene has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Holocene is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for Holocene include Holocene calendar[28], a calendar system[29], founded in 1993[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . stratigraphy.org. stratigraphy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. stratigraphy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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