What time period is this article about?
The Pleistocene.
What is it more commonly called?
The Ice Age.
How long ago did it start?
2,588,000 years ago.
And when did it end?
11,700 years ago.
What was the time before that called?
The Pliocene.
And the time period after?
Holocene.
How many stages does the Pleistocene have?
Four .
Is Ionian one of them?
Yes.
In what location did these names come from?
Southern Europe.
What organization decided on the time boundary between it and Pliocene?
The International Union of Geological Sciences.
When did they do that?
2009.
When was the word first coined?
1839.
By whom?
Charles Lyell.
To describe rock where?
Sicily.
What does Pleistocene mean literally?
"Most New."
And Pliocene?
"More New."
And Holocene?
"Wholly new."
Which epoch are we in how?
Holocene.
Have there been more glaciations since the Ice Age?
No.
What are the names of the four stages?
Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian.