lol, bingo........
era wize we are in the cenozoic and have been for the last 65 million years, right back to the K-T (cretaceous-tertiary) boundary, the point at which the dinosaurs became extinct,
stepping down to the period we are in the quarternary...a period lasting the last 2 million years...
and finally the epoch we are in is indeed the Holocene, approx 10,000 years old and relating back to an approx date of the last Ice age.
Gotta love geological timescales.....puts that half hour lunch break to shame
tka is up