![]() She brings the little girl back to her people, who with their leader Brun are also searching for a new home in the wake of the same earthquake that killed Ayla’s family. An indeterminate amount of time later, a medicine woman named Iza who belongs to a group of Neanderthals called “The Clan” finds Ayla and rescues her. After she just barely escapes with her life from a run-in with a vicious cave tiger that mauls her leg, Ayla collapses. For days on end, the five-year-old wanders alone, naked and starving. Ayla is a blond-haired, blue-eyed Cro-Magnon girl living in Prehistoric Europe when her entire family and its camp is destroyed by an earthquake. ![]() The first of Auel’s Earth’s Children series of novels, The Clan of the Cave Bear tells the story of a five-year-old Cro-Magnon girl living 18,000 years ago during the Quaternary Ice Age who loses her entire family after a devastating earthquake. The Clan of the Cave Bear is a prehistoric adventure novel that became a best-seller when it was published in 1980 by the American author, Jean M. ![]()
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