{"id":712,"date":"2026-01-11T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=712"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:10:43","slug":"119-the-human-era-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"119- The Human Era Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-712-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/113829649\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-11%2F38c674a9-36fc-1176-1b90-3f81c736bea4.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/113829649\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-11%2F38c674a9-36fc-1176-1b90-3f81c736bea4.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/113829649\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-11%2F38c674a9-36fc-1176-1b90-3f81c736bea4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Happy 2026! Or rather- 12,026. At least, according to one interpretation. It has been suggested that the Anno Domini\/Common Era system of timekeeping has some limitations. So, Cesare Emiliani created a calendar in 1993 to combat these issues. Get ready to discuss a calendar which begins when human civilisations and farming did- at midnight, 1st January, 10,000 BCE. After that, we&#039;ll take you on a whistlestop and incomplete tour of what some of human history might look like represented in that calendar.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bevan, E. R. (1902), The House of Seleucus (Volume I). London: Methuen Publishing Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>Clayton, P. A. (2006), Chronicle of the Pharaohs. London: Thames &amp; Hudson Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>Emiliani, C (1993), Calendar reform. Nature 366: 716.<\/li>\n<li>Emiliani, C. (1994), Calendar reform for the year 2000. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 75(19): 218.<\/li>\n<li>Goldsworthy, A. 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London: Thames &amp; Hudson Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>Weir, A. (1996), Britain\u2019s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. London: Pimlico.<\/li>\n<li>Woolf, A. (2014), A Short History of the World. London: Arcturus Publishing Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown (date unknown), Genealogy of the Emperors of Japan. Kunaicho: Japanese government webpage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 2026! Or rather- 12,026. At least, according to one interpretation. It has been suggested that the Anno Domini\/Common Era system of timekeeping has some limitations. So, Cesare Emiliani created a calendar in 1993 to combat these issues. Get ready to discuss a calendar which begins when human civilisations and farming did- at midnight, 1st &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;119- The Human Era Calendar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}