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Professor ofAnthropology Roderick JamesMcIntosh'73 and Northern Man inSouthwestThe Originsof Basilica of Saint-Sernin, ToulouseBasilica of PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 519 Yale Alumni Association New Haven, CT Box 209010 New Haven, Connecticut 06520-9010 the lively Toulouse cities of and Bilbao. Santillana delMar, time toexplore andenjoy and , including Sarlat-la-Canéda Explore ’s oldestinhabitants. of to ElCastillo, thestory piecingtogether IVandPech artsitesfromLascaux Merle world-renowned andlesser-knownexperience Join

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Join archaeologists to explore the evolution of prehistoric in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed of Southwestern France and Northern Spain. Dordogne River, Village La Roque Gageac October 10-19, 2020 TheIndia Origins of Man in Sarlat-la-Canéda Southwest France and Northern Spain Study Leader: Paul Freedman Chester D. Tripp Professor of History Roderick James McIntosh '73 Professor of Chair,Anthropology History of Science, History of Medicine Dear Yale Traveler

Join us on a journey from France’s scenic Dordogne region to the caves of Cantabria, Spain. Discover the mysteries, the creativity, and the extraordinary imagination of our early ancestors who created stunning works of art tens of thousands of years ago. Accompanied by your study leader, Rod McIntosh ’73, Professor of Anthropology at Yale, you’ll visit ’s cave, arguably the most famous prehistoric cave art site in the world. Professor McIntosh’s Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, Spain expertise in prehistoric , geomorphology, and paleoclimate provides a fascinating lens through which to explore southwestern France and northern Spain, where Highlights , Cro-Magnons, and Homo sapiens made their homes in vast cave systems. Enjoy a specially arranged visit to Lascaux IV, an exact Meet with local archaeologists, including Isabelle Castanet, replica of the original cave whose family has been excavating early dwellings set within a new, state-of- discovered on their land since the 1920s, and Dr. Ana Cristina the-art exhibition center. Pinto-Llona, who has worked for years at Spain’s Atapuerca caves, a UNESCO world heritage site with some of Europe’s Examine the impressive of Castel-Merle oldest fossil finds. As you explore the Dordogne region, with an archaeologist whose Basque Country, and northern Spain, you’ll stay in beautiful family discovered the site. places: a cliff-side village on the Vezère River, an age-old monastery in Toulouse, and a Parador in the medieval gem of See the oldest original Santillana del Mar in Spain. cave in the world at El Castillo, and join a Travel into the distant past as we examine some of the renowned archaeologist for a world’s earliest works of art and what they reveal about the visit to the Atapuerca caves. everyday lives of our ancient ancestors. If you have questions about this program, or you’d like to register, please call us at 203-432-1952 or email [email protected]. You can also find out more online at www.alumnitravel.yale.edu/ originsman20.

Best wishes from Yale,

Lauren Summers Senior Director, Alumni Lifelong Learning and Travel alumnitravel.yale.edu/originsman20 Bilbao, Spain Cave Medieval Santillana del Mar

Yale Study Leader Highlights Roderick James McIntosh '73 Professor of Anthropology

Roderick James McIntosh ’73 is the J. Clayton Stephenson/Yale Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and the Curator- in-Charge of the Anthropology Division at the Yale Peabody Museum, as as Honorary Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pretoria (). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, twice a Fulbright Senior Fellow (Senegal and Mali), and has held a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). Before returning to Yale in 2006, he taught at Rice University for more than twenty-five years.

A popular professor with students, Professor McIntosh has traveled extensively for Yale Educational Travel in Africa, the Mediterranean, and Dordogne, and visited nearly every cave with open to the public in the Dordogne region. One of his proudest moments was “baptizing” his son in the Dordogne River, a body of water sacred to archaeologists.

He boasts 35 years of fieldwork (excavations and surveys) in French- speaking Africa and the southern of Mali (around Timbuktu), Madagascar, and in the Middle Senegal Valley of northern Senegal. His major interests are in African and Old World comparative , intellectual history of , ethnicity and Dordogne River, France specialization and the origin of authority in complex society, urbanism, geomorphology and palaeoclimate, international art market, prehistoric symbols, and ideology. • Yale Educational Travel • Yale Alumni Association Bilbao, Spain • Box 209010, New Haven, CT 06520-9010 • Reservations: 203.432.1952 [email protected] Toulouse, France

ITINERARY October 10-19, 2020

WELCOME PHONE CALL: October 1, 2020 (tentative) Join the group at 4:00 pm Eastern alumnitravel.yale.edu/originsman20 for a pre-trip welcome call to learn more about what to expect and to ask questions. about 14,000 years featuring , since 1963 to preserve the fragile mammoths, , and even a paintings—but it also reconstructs U.S. woolly . This afternoon, the experience of discovering the Saturday, October 10 wander through the narrow lanes of cave full of ancient art in 1940. Later, Depart the U.S. for Sarlat-la-Canéda, a medieval gem visit the site of Castel-Merle with , France. of mustard-colored, half-timbered archaeologist Isabelle Castanet, houses. Return to the hotel for whose great-grandfather discovered Bordeaux/Vezère Valley dinner. (B,D) prehistoric etchings and artifacts Sunday, October 11 in stone shelters on the family Arrive in Bordeaux and travel east Lascaux IV/Castel-Merle homestead. Enjoy a “prehistoric” into the Dordogne—a beautiful Tuesday, October 13 lunch made with ingredients used region still commonly known by its This morning, meet prehistoric by Neanderthals, and then head pre-revolutionary name, Périgord. cave expert Sandrine Geraud for a to , an eight- Your route follows the Dordogne specially-arranged visit to the new kilometer-long cave filled with River as it wends past rolling International Center for Cave Art, more than a hundred drawings and meadows and castle-topped hills. the home of Lascaux IV. Opened in carvings of mammoths. (B,L,D) Over millions of years, this late 2016, this state-of-the-art center landscape has been whittled away is partly buried in the ground. It /Toulouse by its rivers, forming cliffs and caves presents not only the meticulously Wednesday, October 14 where early found shelter. recreated paintings of the original Travel south this morning to the Your home in the Dordogne is the cave site—closed to the public region, home to Pech Merle, Hôtel Le Centenaire, a charming an immense cave with art that country inn set in the village of dates back 25,000 years. Within its Les Eyzies-de-Tayac —which is In March 2019, the galleries lie some rare finds: spotted itself built into the side of a karst animals, the silhouette of a human cliff. After settling in, gather for a Yale Peabody Museum hand, and even a child’s footprints welcome reception and dinner with of Natural History preserved in the . After lunch on your professor. (R,D) wrapped up “The Artist’s your own, continue to the vibrant Eye: of the university town of Toulouse, called Vezère Valley the “pink city” for the rose-colored Monday, October 12 ,” an exhibition stone of its . Check into the Spend the morning at the National of that Grand Hôtel de l’Opéra, a former Museum of Prehistory, partially monastery situated on the city’s th incorporate replicas housed in a 16 -century castle main square. (B) and home to an extraordinary of prehistoric figurines. collection of prehistoric artifacts. Artist Cornelia Kubler Basque Country / Santillana Enjoy lunch on your own in Les Kavanagh recreated del Mar, Spain Eyzies before venturing into the two figurines found in Thursday, October 15 cave of Font-de-Gaume. Here, caves near Toulouse in Journey into France’s Basque you’ll have a rare chance to see some region today. Following lunch, 200 original paintings dating back southwestern France. join a prehistory specialist to Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Archaeological excavation

explore the Isturitz and Oxocelhaya Altamira Cave. (B,L,D) What Is Included: caves. Paleoanthropologists have El Pendo/ Bilbao determined that early humans Saturday, October 17 • Program of lectures and discussions with Yale Faculty leaders inhabited these superimposed caves This morning, head into your final • All site visits, activities, entrance fees, for some 80,000 years, and the cave, El Pendo. Archaeologists and guided tours as listed artifacts found within—musical here continue to make significant in the itinerary instruments, carved horns, discoveries, including evidence of a • All meals and receptions as outlined made from whale — permanent settlement in the itinerary offer clues about their lives. This found in 2017. After lunch, journey • Accommodation as outlined afternoon, we enter Spain and follow to Bilbao, the political capital of the in the itinerary the coast to the Cantabria region. autonomous Basque people. Check • The services of a professional Tour Manager from pre-departure through Settle into the Parador de Santillana into the Hotel Miró, located just the end of the trip Gil Blas, a manor house in the steps from the world-renowned • The services of French and Spanish heart of Santillana del Mar, one of Guggenheim Museum designed guides throughout the trip Spain’s best-preserved medieval by Frank Gehry. Hotel Miró (B,L) • Gratuities to hotel personnel, local villages. (B,L) guides, and drivers on included Atapuerca / Bilbao excursions and transfers • Transfers and luggage handling for Puente Viesgo Caves Sunday, October 18 arrivals and departures that coincide Friday, October 16 Archaeologist Dr. Ana Cristina with itinerary travel dates The caves of Cantabria harbor some Pinto-Llona joins you today • Taxes on included services of the oldest art in the world and for a special visit to the caves of • Emergency medical evacuation services have earned the region recognition Atapuerca, where she has worked through UHC Global Assist as a World Heritage site. Spend for several years. Named a World • QuietVox Headsets the morning at the caves of Puente Heritage site in 2000, these caves Viesgo, which were recently have yielded an incomparable trove What Is Not Included: discovered to be thousands of years of fossils and artifacts, including • Airfare from your home city to France older than previously thought. The some of the oldest hominin fossils and return from Spain new dates call into question the found in Europe. Return to Bilbao • Passport, visa, and airport identity of the artists: were they and gather for a farewell dinner this departure taxes Neanderthal or Homo sapien? At El evening. (B,L,D) • Airport transfers and baggage handling for arrivals and departures on dates Castillo, examine original paintings, other than those in the itinerary the oldest of which date back 40,800 Bilbao • Travel and trip cancellation insurance years. Then explore the nearby Las Monday, October 19 • Expenses of a personal such Monedas cave, where paintings of After breakfast, transfer to Bilbao as laundry, telephone, hotel spa goats and bears seem to have been Airport for your flight home.(B) services, food and alcohol beyond meal rendered during a colder climatic inclusions, etc. period. This afternoon, visit the • Gratuities for non-group activities Museum of Altamira to see an • Activities described as optional in the itinerary exact full-size replica of the • Expenses resulting from delays due to magnificent paintings of the bad weather, road conditions, sickness, government action, and flight delays alumnitravel.yale.edu/originsman20 Program Cost The base cost for this program is: $6,995 (based on double occupancy) Single Supplement: $850 (limited availability) Deposit Amount: $1,000 Final payment deadline: July 10, 2020 Atapuerca

Accommodations Archaeological excavation HÔTEL LE CENTENAIRE – LES EYZIES-TEYRAC, FRANCE (3 nights) The 21-room Hotel le Centenaire is a charming boutique hotel with a central location in the village of Les Eyzies- Teyrac. Surrounded by lovely gardens and patios, the hotel offers individually decorated rooms with modern amenities and a gourmet restaurant.

GRAND HÔTEL DE L’OPÉRA – TOULOUSE, FRANCE (1 night) The four-star Grand Hôtel de l’Opéra is set within a 17th-century monastery on the Place du Capitole. The hotel features rooms with lush colors and modern amenities, a spa, a bar and lounge, and an affiliated restaurant run by a Michelin-starred chef.

PARADOR DE SANTILLANA GIL BLAS – SANTILLANA DEL MAR, SPAIN (2 nights) The Parador de Santillana Gil Blas is an 18th-century manor house at the heart of this pedestrian-only medieval village. Rooms and common spaces have old- world décor and modern amenities, and the property features a walled garden, a sunny courtyard, and an acclaimed restaurant.

HOTEL MIRÓ – BILBAO, SPAIN (2 nights) The stylish Hotel Miró is steps from the Frank Gehry- designed Guggenheim Museum, which can be seen from some of its light-filled, contemporary rooms. Along with a library, bar, and wellness center, the hotel offers a gourmet breakfast.

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