Meanings of recent epoch in English

After their recent epoch of zealous modernism, stunning the world with ambitious accomplishments, will the Han turn inward again?

The astronomer also informs us that at a comparatively recent epoch the eccentricity of the earth's orbit became very great.

To gain an accurate, really specific knowledge of the properties of elementary bodies was reserved for the chemists of a recent epoch.

Discoveries no less curious have been made in the Bourget Lake, but the dwellings rising from its surface date from a comparatively recent epoch.

At an another and more recent epoch, the friends of astronomy, urged by the wants of their science, united to establish the Astronomical Society.

One of the Sanskrit inscriptions of a comparatively recent epoch (on the pedestal of one of the colossi) clearly points to 453 B.C.

The physical history of the Recent epoch needs here no special mention.

Why not follow this method in the examination of more recent epochs?

The Neolithic stage of culture passes by insensible gradations into that of the age of bronze, and thus into the Recent epoch.