![]() Historians and anthropologists immediately reacted to Auel's book, maintaining that her assumptions about Neanderthal life were not realistic. Ayla is very different from the Clan: physically, she is blond and blue-eyed and the people in the Clan are stocky and dark she is expressive, sensitive, and smart and they are dour, plodding, and cold. The story concerns a young girl named Ayla who is orphaned by a natural disaster and then adopted by a group known as the Clan. Indeed The Clan of the Cave Bear is one of those novels that is either loved or hated. Although meticulously researched, the sheer length of the original manuscript made many publishers unwilling to take the risk on the untried author. ![]() The Clan of the Cave Bear was initially met with reluctance by publishers when Jean Auel approached them with her plan for a series of novels set in prehistoric times. ![]()
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