Yet she is unaccustomed to how they live - their culture, language, and even ability to express emotion are wildly different from her own. She is adopted by the clan medicine woman and learns that the squat, bow-legged creatures she had once feared are just as loving and civilized as her own people. Small and alone, she doesn't stand a chance against the fearsome forces of nature until she is discovered by a clan of the ape-like humans that her people evolved from centuries ago. When an earthquake splits the earth and swallows everything she ever knew to call home or family, she is left to her own devices. Auel's original novel in the Earth's Children series, "Clan of the Cave Bear," first published in 1980, begins back at the beginning of time, when humans began to split from their brutish, ape-like ancestors to form a more modern race.Īyla is just another one of these more evolved humans, yet she is too young to know or understand anything.
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