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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