{"id":7322,"date":"2024-01-08T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:10:12","slug":"research-portrait-bacara-spruit-novel-approaches-for-understanding-subsitence-startegies-at-boomplaas-cave-and-grassridge-rockshelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/research-portrait-bacara-spruit-novel-approaches-for-understanding-subsitence-startegies-at-boomplaas-cave-and-grassridge-rockshelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portrait &#8211; Bacara Spruit, &#8220;Novel approaches for understanding subsitence startegies at Boomplaas cave and Grassridge rockshelter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voici le \u00ab Portrait de recherche \u00bb de Bacara Spruit, publi\u00e9 sur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ifas_research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notre compte Instagram<\/a> en janvier 2024 et qui pr\u00e9sente son travail de terrain, soutenu par l&#8217;IFAS-Recherche en 2023. Doctorante en arch\u00e9ologie \u00e0 l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 du Witwatersrand, Bacara analyse les changements dans les modes d&#8217;occupation des sites de Grassridge rockshelter et Boomplaas cave au cours de la transition entre le Pl\u00e9istoc\u00e8ne et l&#8217;Holoc\u00e8ne, \u00e0 l&#8217;aide de m\u00e9thodes innovantes, telles que la m\u00e9thode ZooMS et les analyses taphonomiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the \u201cResearch Portrait\u201d of Bacara Spruit, published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ifas_research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our Instagram account<\/a> in January 2024, presenting her fieldwork project, supported by IFAS-Research in 2023. PhD student in archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Bacara analyses changes in occupation patterns at Grassridge rockshelter and Boomplaas cave during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition, using innovative methods such as Zooms and taphonomic analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2024 Voici le \u00ab Portrait de recherche \u00bb de Bacara Spruit, publi\u00e9 sur notre compte Instagram en janvier 2024 et qui pr\u00e9sente son travail de terrain, soutenu par l&#8217;IFAS-Recherche en 2023. 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