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The acronym bp means Before Present and is normally used by geologists and paleontologists when referring to events in the very distant past - generally millions of years before present.

Whereas BC (Before Christ) or BCE (Before CommonEra) starts 2008 years ago, bp starts now. Of course, for any time estimate that is more than a few thousand years ago, there is no practical difference between BCE and bp.

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