Dr. Claire Allum earned her BA and doctorate from the University of Calgary and her MA in Anthropology from Trent University. She started out specializing in Northern Plains prehistory—able to identify every bone in a bison—but changed focus after spending three months excavating a 5,000-year-old site on the coast of Ecuador. Since the 1980’s Claire has worked in Latin America uncovering some of the earliest pottery in the Americas, mapping monumental architecture in northern Peru, and working with the Chachi, an indigenous tropical forest people living in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. She knows dozens of ways to cook bananas and how to paddle a canoe standing up.

Claire has taught students at several universities and colleges and has spent six seasons working with students at the Maya site of Maax Na in northwestern Belize. Her other fieldwork includes working in Ghana, West Africa, the north coast of Labrador, the northern peninsula of Newfoundland and the plains and foothills of southern Alberta. She is an avid SCUBA diver and caver.  

Claire Allum is scheduled to sail on the following voyage(s) (subject to change):

Date	Days	Voyage	Ship	Embark/Disembark	Silver Privilege Fares
Oct 02 2013	7	7321	Silver Explorer	La Romana, Dominican Republic to Bridgetown, Barbados		$3,050
Oct 09 2013	9	7322	Silver Explorer	Bridgetown, Barbados to Colon, Panama		$3,750
Oct 18 2013	7	7323	Silver Explorer	Colon, Panama to Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica		$3,350
Mar 02 2014	11	7406	Silver Explorer	Ushuaia, Argentina to Valparaiso, Chile		$5,950
Mar 13 2014	14	7407	Silver Explorer	Valparaiso, Chile to Callao, Peru		$6,450
Mar 27 2014	11	7408	Silver Explorer	Callao, Peru to Colon, Panama		$5,450
Apr 07 2014	8	7409	Silver Explorer	Colon, Panama to Bridgetown, Barbados		$3,650