The last major glacial period began about 2,000,000 years B.P. and is commonly known as the Pleistocene or Ice Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glacier] Reference

The last major glacial period began about 2,000,000 years B.P. and is commonly known as the Pleistocene period or Ice Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Oh, he also liked the nest of the Quaternary period, but the Pleistocene was his favorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

The period from 2,000,000 - 14,000 B.P. (before present) is known as the Pleistocene or Ice Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth's climatic history] Reference

The Younger-Dryas climate reversal came at the end of a period known as the Pleistocene around 12,900 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Geologists use the terms Pleistocene and Holocene to refer to the last 1.8 million years of our planet’s natural history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

163 terms Pleistocene and Holocene: Bahn 2001, 194-95 and 361.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

Quarternary, or Age of Man: Glacial or Pleistocene, Recent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Present elevations were reached during the Pliocene-Pleistocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cauca Valley montane forests] Reference

Pleistocene deposit at Barn well; in the Vale of Wardour he discovered in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

So, we've got a chance to bring back these Pleistocene survivors right there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2005] Reference

To make them, Nesmith reached into the Pleistocene era of photographic history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art review: ‘Phil Nesmith: Flow' at Irvine Contemporary & Renate Aller at Adamson Gallery] Reference

Probably Stone Age hunters exterminated the gi­ant mammals of the Pleistocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

Pleistocene period that we may suppose that the Cave-men usually had plenty of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Later Cave-Men] Reference

This “sand sea” formed in the last 8,000 years, following the Pleistocene glaciations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference

This species was abundant until the close of the Pleistocene period, when it became extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree-Dwellers] Reference

So and to us anyway, one and one equals two, even back in the Pleistocene, it's archaeology.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2004] Reference

Pleistocene glaciation was extensive, and small glaciers persist at elevations above 1,800 m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference

The Pleistocene bison of Europe was similar to the American type that lived in the woodlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Later Cave-Men] Reference

This was near where the Eyrie would be, but immensely far downtime, in the middle Pleistocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

Its features are typical of some forms that existed in the Pleistocene era, 600,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

Andrew Curry ( [email protected] ) wrote about re-creating the Pleistocene in issue 16.10.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre] Reference

The ancestors of our modern pronghorn, back in the Pleistocene, or whatever, once had five horns.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Or plies his trade in some Pleistocene-era, dead-end job where a cute little laptop doesn't apply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luddite: If You Build It, Don't Be So Sure They Will Come] Reference

"We still have Pleistocene-model bodies," says anthropologist E.O. Smith of Emory University in Atlanta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flintstone Diagnosis] Reference

The former came the earlier and stayed until the late Pleistocene period, when the later cavemen hunted the reindeer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree-Dwellers] Reference

The bison is now the largest mammal on the continent and one of a handful of megafauna to remain from the Pleistocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam] Reference

The Glacial or Pleistocene Age is seen to have been of immense duration, and characterized by great changes in climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The first creature on the planet that was ever known to have an invasive cancer was a cave bear in the Pleistocene era.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Cancer - January 2, 2000] Reference

Today, we are experiencing a sustained warming unknown since the end of the Pleistocene glaciation some 14,670 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Reese Halter: Lessons From the Medieval Warm Period] Reference

They show that in Pleistocene times the glaciers of Kilimanjaro and Kenya extended much farther down the mountain slopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

"Pottery," says he, "was unknown in the Pleistocene Age, < 70 > and therefore is unlikely to have been found in the Pliocene.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Until the Pleistocene Era, which ended 10,000 years ago, less than one one-thousandth of 1 percent of the earth's surface belonged to man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Search For Hidden Life] Reference

It was a desperate effort to save the Pleistocene-era creature that had soared over North America ever since mastodons and mammoths roamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Life For An Old Bird] Reference