6/30/2023 0 Comments The mammoth hunters seriesIn The Mammoth Hunters, Ayla, Jondalar, and Ayla's horse and it's foal, start the trek back to Jondalar's tribe. Ayla saves Jondalar and nurses him back to health, and for the first time is introduced to Cro-Magnon society. Ayla's cave lion, when grown, leaves her and later ends up attacking Jondalar and his brother, injuring the former and killing the latter. Meanwhile, an eighteen year-old cro-magnon man, Jondalar, and his brother set out from their camp for a years-long journey. In the second novel, Ayla sets up home in a cave, where she befriends and trains a cave lion cub and a horse. Ayla is trained as a medicine woman but, due to the actions of a Neanderthal man who hates her, is exiled from the tribe. The Neanderthals cannot communicate vocally and have access to racial memory, that is to say, the collective memory of the Neanderthal peoples. Ayla deals with fundamental differences between herself and the Neanderthals. In the first book, Ayla, a young cro-magnon child, is orphaned and later adopted by a tribe of Neanderthals who refer to themselves as the clan. The story takes place in prehistoric Europe, during the last ice age. The Mammoth Hunters is the third novel in the Earth's Children series, so you're dutifully warned of spoilers for the first two books. Subject/Genre: Prehistoric Society/Historical Fiction
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