![]() ![]() Auel's Website for more information.Īyla is just 5 years old when she loses her entire family and everyone she has ever known to a cave in caused by an earthquake. Broud does all he can to destroy her, but Ayla is a survivor. ![]() ![]() But she makes an implacable enemy of the group's future leader. She is cared for by its medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Its heroine is Ayla, a courageous and indomitable young woman whose story begins when she is a five-year-old orphan adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthal.Īyla inspires first surprise, then wariness and finally acceptance by the Clan. Auel's magnificent epic of life on the glacial continent of the last Ice Age, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. ![]()
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