But to Ayla, who was raised by the Clan of the Cave Bear, they are “the Others.” She approaches them with mixed feelings of fear and curiosity. Together they meet the Mamutoi-the Mammoth Hunters-people like Ayla. With her is Jondalar, the tall, handsome, yellow-haired man she nursed back to health and came to love. The series includes a highly detailed focus on botany, herbology, herbal medicine, archaeology and anthropology, but it also features substantial amounts of romance, coming-of-age crises, and-employing significant literary license-the attribution of certain advances and inventions to the protagonists.Set in the challenging terrain of Ice Age Europe that millions of Jean Auel’s readers have come to treasure, The Mammoth Hunters is an epic novel of love, knowledge, jealousy, and hard choices-a novel certain to garner Jean Auel even greater acclaim as a master storyteller of the dawn of humanity.Īyla, the independent heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses, sets out from the valley on Whinney, the horse she tamed. The couple finally return to southwestern France and Jondalar's people in the fifth novel. In the third and fourth works, they meet various groups of Cro-Magnons and encounter their culture and technology. The story arc in part comprises a travel tale, in which the two lovers journey from the region of Ukraine to Jondalar's home in what is now France, along an indirect route up the Danube River valley.
It tells the story of Ayla, an orphaned Cro-Magnon girl who is adopted and raised by a tribe of Neanderthals and who later embarks on a journey to find the Others (her own kind), meeting along the way her romantic interest and supporting co-protagonist, Jondalar. The books focus on the period of co-existence between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals.Īs a whole, the series is a tale of personal discovery: coming-of-age, invention, cultural complexities, and, beginning with the second book, explicit romantic sex. The series is set in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic era, after the date of the first ceramics discovered, but before the last advance of glaciers. Auel had previously mentioned in interviews that there would be a seventh novel, but publicity announcements for the sixth confirmed it would be the final book in the sequence. Auel set circa 30,000 years before present. Earth's Children is a series of epic historical fiction novels written by Jean M.
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