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Holocene Calendar

Main article: Holocene Calendar

The Holocene Calendar proposed by Cesare Emiliani in 1993 brought about a new way to date the Holocene geographical epoch and the Neolithic Revolution. The Holocene Calendar emphasizes the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements, and adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme.

The introduction of the Holocene Calendar sought to solve a number of alleged problems with the current Anno Domini era, which number the years of the commonly accepted world calendar. These issues include: An erroneous estimation of the birth year of Jesus, the birth date of Jesus is a less universally relevant epoch event than the approximate beginning of the Holocene, The years BC/BCE are counted down when moving from past to future which made it increasingly difficult to execute calculations of time spans, and The Anno Domini era has no year zero.

Instead, HE uses the "beginning of the human era" as its epoch. As a result, Human Era proponents claim that it makes for easier geological, archaeological, dendrochronological, anthropological and historical dating. Another benefit includes the fact that the Holocene era starts before other calendar eras. However, a fault could be that there is no agreement on the start of the Holocene epoch, so having a calendar begin on a date that is not unanimously agreed upon, allows for inconsistency in calculations to arise.