Modern humans have walked the earth for about 300 Thousand years – and especially in the past 6.000 years we have left our mark. Now, a group of scientists claims to have identified the place which best illustrates the destabilizing affect humans have had on our planet. And they say research at the site allows them to pinpoint the nineteen-fifties as the time when a new geological time period began – the Anthropocene.
The moment when mankind began to irreversibly change the earth | DW News
