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Viau, André E.; Gajewski, Konrad; Fines, Philippe; Atkinson, David E.; Sawada, Michael C. (1 May 2002). "Widespread evidence of 1500 yr climate variability in North America during the past 14 000 yr". Geology. 30 (5): 455–458. Bibcode:2002Geo....30..455V. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0455:WEOYCV>2.0.CO;2.
The name "Holocene" was proposed in 1850 by the French palaeontologist and entomologist Paul Gervais (1816–1879): Gervais, Paul (1850). "Sur la répartition des mammifères fossiles entre les différents étages tertiaires qui concourent à former le sol de la France" [On the distribution of mammalian fossils among the different tertiary stages which help to form the ground of France]. Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier. Section des Sciences (ภาษาฝรั่งเศส). 1: 399–413. From p. 413:"On pourrait aussi appeler Holocènes, ceux de l'époque historique, ou dont le dépôt n'est pas antérieur à la présence de l'homme ; … " (One could also call "Holocene" those [deposits] of the historic era, or the deposit of which is not prior to the presence of man ; … )