07 Mar 10 Learn something new no.4 – What is the current historical era? | #LearnSomethingNew

We’ve all heard of the Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age, but what Age are we now living in?

These titles refer to social and technical advances in the human race and lasted for thusands of years, so to call the current era e.g. ‘The Technical Age’ is a little premature. Although steam power (technology in an early frm) has been around for some 2000 years it has only impacted on society and environment for some 300 years, when it heralded the start of the industrial revolution. So in millennia to come, others will decide in what era we currently reside.

However from a geological perspective, Earth is currently in the Cenozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon.