 
<translate> Tambaya Passage: Quaternary (/ kwəˈtɜːrnəri /) shine na yanzu kuma mafi kwanan nan daga cikin lokutan uku na Cenozoic Era a cikin tsarin lokaci na kasa da kasa na Hukumar Stratigraphy (ICS). Ya biyo bayan Lokacin Neogene kuma ya kasance daga shekaru miliyan 2.588 ± 0.005 da suka gabata zuwa yanzu. An raba lokacin Quaternary zuwa lokuta biyu: Pleistocene (shekaru miliyan 2.588 da suka gabata zuwa shekaru dubu 11.7 da suka gabata) da Holocene (shekaru dubu 11.7 da suka gabata zuwa yau). Kalmar da ba ta dace ba "Late Quaternary" tana nufin shekaru 0.5 da suka gabata - shekaru miliyan 1.0.  Tambaya: Bisa ga wannan nassi, yaushe ne lokacin hudu ya fara kuma ya ƙare? <eng> The question Passage: Quaternary (/ kwəˈtɜːrnəri /) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present. The Quaternary Period is divided into two epochs: the Pleistocene (2.588 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago) and the Holocene (11.7 thousand years ago to today). The informal term "Late Quaternary" refers to the past 0.5 -- 1.0 million years.

Question: Based on this passage, when did the quaternary period begin and end? 