![]() ![]() ![]() There is not much of a plot, beyond some minor marital discord between Ayla and her beloved Cro-Magnon mate, Jondalar. “The Land of the Painted Caves” unfolds in episodic fashion, following Ayla, her family and their cohort in seasonal and ritual migrations among other cave habitations and clans. ![]() “I am Ayla of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, acolyte of the Zelandoni, First Among Those Who Serve The Great Earth Mother, mated to Jondalar, Master Flint-Knapper and brother of Joharran, leader of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii. Formerly I was Daughter of the Mammoth Hearth of the Lion Camp of the Mamutoi, Chosen by the spirit of the Cave Lion, Protected by the Cave Bear, and friend of the horses, Whinney, Racer, and Gray, and the four-legged hunter, Wolf.”Įven die-hard Auel fans may want to skim over those sections of the book where characters greet each other for the first time. Which happens fairly often. She reintroduces herself early in “The Land of Painted Caves”: ![]() Auel’s best-selling prehistoric saga, “Earth’s Children.” The extremely earnest, ambitious and often intriguing series, which began in 1980 with “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” attempts to encapsulate much of human (and proto-human) prehistory as it follows the life of a Cro-Magnon woman. Sometimes it feels as though entire hominid species have evolved in less time than it takes to read “ The Land of Painted Caves,” the sixth and final installment of Jean M. ![]()
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