![]() ![]() ![]() Their cave was destroyed in the earthquake and they are searching for a new home. The narrative switches to a group of people who call themselves "Clan" and who the reader comes to understand are Neanderthal. Having been attacked and nearly killed by a cave lion and suffering from starvation, exhaustion, and infection of her wounds, she collapses, on the verge of death. She wanders downstream, naked and unable to feed herself, for several days. Auel's time-frame, sometime between 29,950 and 26,950 years BP or 28,000 and 25,000 BCE, corresponds generally with archaeological estimates of the Neanderthal branch of mankind disappearing.Ī five-year-old girl, Ayla, who readers come to understand is Cro-Magnon, is orphaned and left homeless by an earthquake that destroys her family's camp. The novel references the advance of the polar ice sheets, setting the story before 19,950 years Before Present (BP) or 18,000 years BCE, when the farthest southern encroachment of the last glacial period of the current ice age occurred. It is the first book in the Earth's Children book series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. ![]() The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1980 novel and epic work of prehistoric fiction by Jean M. ![]()
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