Group Meeting #2

On wensday 1st of october we had our 2nd group meeting. After focusing our last meeting on the written part and the powerpoint presentation, we dedicated this one to our 3D model. When planning out the model, we all saw that a good idea would be to show the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. On the pleistocene side, we created a glacier-like surface with clay and a mountain and a river out of blue clay. We placed around the "glacier" animals that lived in this enviroment at the time and some that still do.  On the holocene side, we created the ground eith brown clay and modeled a small hill out of green clay with a tree. We also placed animals that lived during this Epoch.  Since humans started to develop civilization at the beginning of the epoch, we placed a person dressed in thick clothing to protect himself from the cold. Research has told us that eventhough the ice melted entering the holocene epoch, the tempereatures were still too low so that the people living during it can stop using their protective coats. 

We also want to explain that humans were already fully developed to today's species of  homo sapiens sapiens around the end of the pleistocene. What stood out during the holocene epoch was the beginning of civilizations with language, writing, tools, etc.