Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by general era]
5. geologic time scale
6. Phanerozoic
7. Cenozoic
8. Quaternary

Anotations

Scope note:

The second epoch of the Quaternary and the most recent geologic interval of time. It extends from about 10,000 BCE to the present. It coincides with the late and post-Stone Age history of the human species.