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The Clan of the Cave Bear - National Book Award Finalist for First Novel (1981) [8] The Shelters of Stone - Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek Nominee (2002) Despite the above, the Earth's Children series was the nineteenth most banned and challenged book in the United States between 1990 and 1999. [9]
Ayla is the main character of Jean Auel's Earth's Children novels, a series which started in 1980. She is a woman of unknown origins, simply referred to as one of 'the Others', though possibly a Cro-Magnon woman who was raised by Neanderthals. Her near-white hair and sky blue eyes, which would be a much later evolution in the homo-sapien ...
The sequel, The Valley of Horses, continues Ayla's story, which is further developed in the four other books of the Earth's Children series: The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, and The Land of Painted Caves.
Modern archaeology paints a truly compelling portrait of our oft-misunderstood relatives
Jean Marie Auel (/ aʊ l /; née Untinen; born February 18, 1936) is an American writer who wrote the Earth's Children books, a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores human activities during this time, and touches on the interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals. Her books have sold more than 45 million copies ...
Earth's Children is a series of historical fiction novels written by Jean M. Auel. 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. The books focus on the period of co-existence between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals.
Fiction about neanderthals, an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Neanderthals were extinct hominins who lived until about 40,000 years ago. They are the closest known relatives of anatomically modern humans. [1] Neanderthal skeletons were first discovered in the early 19th century; research on Neanderthals in the 19th and early 20th centuries argued for a perspective of them as "primitive" beings socially and cognitively inferior to modern humans.