post-Pleistocene

• a word derived from Pleistocene.
  Pleistocene

  adjective

  noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.

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post-Pleistocene

The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less.

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Thanks to all these factors, Eurasia was the continent on which technology started its post-Pleistocene acceleration earliest and resulted in the greatest local accumulation of technologies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The remaining factor behind Africa’s slower rate of post-Pleistocene development compared with Eurasia’s is the different orientation of the main axes of these continents.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Yali’s question went to the heart of the current human condition, and of post-Pleistocene human history.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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