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Oaxaca: Ring in the New Year Tour Leader
Go Learn
Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today.
— Gillian Hovell
December 27, 2017–January 2, 2018
Tour Leader Rick Paine
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah
Rick Paine has been introducing University of Utah students to the wonders of Mesoamerican archaeology since 1995. He has led several learning abroad trips to Costa Rica, teaching tropical forest ecology and land use, as well as GoLearn's Maya/Guatemala adventure.
Rick is an experienced Maya scholar and has conducted fieldwork at several Maya sites, as well as excavations in Turkey, and the United States. Rick is currently a member of the Mirador Basin archaeological project. El Mirador is a colossal pre-Classic Maya site in the Peten rainforest of northern Guatemala; it is a key to understanding the rise of Maya civilization.
Double Occupancy: $2749
Single Supplement: $150
Airfare is not included.
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