AIA Tours: land

Decorated Caves of the Pyrenees & the Rhone Valley

Tour Dates: April 18-30, 2024 in the planning stages (12 days)

Tour Leader(s): Ian Tattersall ,

This tour is in the planning stages for an April 2024 Departure. For more information on this tour, or to be among the first notified when this tour brochure becomes available, contact us at 800-748-6262 or aia@studytours.org

Discover a collection of magnificent but largely unheralded examples of Ice Age art while in the company of acclaimed paleoanthropologist and popular trip leader Ian Tattersall. Admire unusual, elegant bas-relief animal images in Basque caves, a profusion of hand prints at Gargas, and the famous panels of line-drawn and subtly shaded bison, horse, and ibex at Niaux. The trip concludes with a visit to the spectacular Chauvet cave replica at Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, which expertly re-creates the earliest, and perhaps most impressive, of the many masterpieces of Ice Age art dated to some 35,000 years ago. Enjoy fine food and delightful accommodations while an expert trip manager handles all the logistic.

“Ian Tattersall provided his astonishing expertise on the cave art, the Upper Paleolithic, and human evolution in general to make the entire tour an incredibly enlightening educational experience.” – Thomas, Texas

“Ian’s commentary and overall presence could not have been more engaging. He was both an archaeological authority and an excellent traveling companion.” – Richard, New York


Tour Pricing (10 nights)

Per person, double occupancy

13-20 participants $TBA
10-12 participants $TBA
Single Supplement $TBA

Single room supplement will be charged when requested or required (limited availability).
With fewer than 10 participants, a small group surcharge may be added.

To reserve your space using the online form, click here.

For reservations or questions, please email us at aia@studytours.org (and include your full name) or call us toll-free at (800) 748-6262 (toll: 603-756-2884).


Paintings of bison from the Salon Noir of Niaux cave. ©HTO

The entrance to Isturitz cave. © Krijun.

The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. © Nicolas Vigier.

The Ekainberri panel of horses, Spain. © Zaidiak.

Tautavel Man is a proposed subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. Image © Rémih.

Painting of a Rhinoceros in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, France. © Inocybe

A charcoal drawing from Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, France. © Claude Valette

Itinerary


This tour is in the planning stages for an April 2024 Departure. For more information on this tour, or to be among the first notified when this tour brochure becomes available, contact us at 800-748-6262 or aia@studytours.org

 

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This tour is in the planning stages for an April 2024 Departure. For more information on this tour, or to be among the first notified when this tour brochure becomes available, contact us at 800-748-6262 or aia@studytours.org

Forms



For reservations or questions, please email us at aia@studytours.org (and include your full name) or call us toll-free at (800) 748-6262 (toll: 603-756-2884). To reserve your space using the online form, click here.

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