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The Holocene calendar sets the start, the Epoch , of the current Era to 10,000 BC. This is a first approximation of the start of the current Geologic Epoch , not coincidentally called the Holocene (the name means ''entirely recent''). The motivation for this is that human civilisation (eg, the first settlements, agriculture etc.) is believed to have arisen around this time. All key dates in human history can then be listed using a simple increasing date scale with smaller dates always occurring before larger dates. Conversion to Holocene from Gregorian AD dates can be achieved by adding 10,000. For example, 2006 AD becomes 12006 HE. BC dates are converted by subtracting the BC year from 10,001. HE is similar to a Japanese Historical Era known as the Jōmon Era (JE). See also References |