An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c14.s8.t4.1

v1.c14.s8.t4.1

While a distinctive series of climatic changes and its effects characterize the Pleistocene Age [9.7.2] its termination is marked by the withdrawal of the last glaciation. This may be a perfect line drawing the closure of a period but it can hardly mark the beginning of the succeeding one in so short a time. For one thing the withdrawal of the last ice sheets varied in time and space. The difference in the dates in absolute figures between two extremes is more than double the total duration of the Holocene reckoned from the latest one.