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There is now a lot of evidence for "human impact driving the current epoch" on earth. Scientists find that the Anthropocene, beginning in the mid-20th century, was marked by materials driven by humans, according to scienceworldreport.

Humans developed and changed the shape of the Holocene Epoch for the past 11,700 years.

"Humans have long affected the environment, but recently there has been a rapid global spread of novel materials including aluminum, concrete and plastics, which are leaving their mark in sediments," said Collin Waters, one of the researchers, in a news release.

"Fossil-fuel combustion has dispersed fly ash particles worldwide, pretty well coincident with the peak distribution of the 'bomb spike' of radionuclides generated by atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons."

In their latest research, scientists discovered that humans have altered the system in order to produce a number of signals in sediments and ice, which are "distinctive enough to justify recognition of an Anthropocene Epoch in the Geological Time Scale".

Hence, while we are in a new epoch, it is quite clear that humans are driving it.

The findings are published in the journal Science.