The
Holocene calendar, also known as the
Holocene Era (
HE) or
Human era, is a
year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently world-dominant
AD or
CE era system, placing its first year near the beginning of the
Holocene epoch and the
Neolithic revolution, making the current year 1 HE. The
Human Era was first proposed by the scientist
Cesare Emiliani in 1993.