Boomplaas Excavation Season 2024: HOMER Orientation
HOMER Orientation! Welcome to the first blog post from the Boomplaas 2024 Winter season! The group consists of numerous students from across the world including Brazil, Namibia, and Tanzania. We are beyond excited for the incredible opportunity to work in the field and to grow our knowledge base and skills in zooarchaeology, lithic analysis, and anthropological excavation. For this first week those of us here as part of the HOMER program have been going through orientation. The next 5 and a half weeks, we will be excavating the Boomplaas site. Orientation was based in Mossel Bay nestled within the Garden Route of South Africa, and we had the opportunity to visit multiple cave sites. Our first day for HOMER orientation was Sunday May 11th, and here we are almost a week later on the 18th about to head inland to Boomplaas! To start Orientation we were introduced to the major find types we could expect to see at Boomplaas: faunal remains, lithics, and roofspall. Students familiari