c. 6250 BCE
8.2 ka climate event
Climate & environment · Holoceno · Cambios abruptos · Núcleos de hielo
The Northgrippian subdivision of the Holocene is fixed at a climate event dated 8,236 years before 2000, prominently recorded in the NGRIP2 core. Other proxies show differing regional expressions; the marker does not turn archaeological correlations into a single cause of social change.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- stratigraphy.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Not identified in metadata; document review pending
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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