Update : as of 11-10-2009 there is no new news on the 6th book, It is still set for sometime after the First of the year. I will continue to look for up dates, The wait continues :(.

The Clan Of the Cave Bear Is the 1st in the series.

The early story of the life of a young girl who loses her family in an earth quake and is found by a clan that is trying to find a new home after losing theirs in the same earthquake. They are different from her and being not as evolved and unsure of taking her in one finally talks the rest of the clan into saving Ayla. She is taken in and train by the medicine woman she has a difficult time fitting in. Her quick mind and natural curiosity keeps her from following the clan ways and gets her exiled, she is allowed to return but things only get worse for Ayla and in the end leaves the clan to search for true people.

The Long awaited 6th Book  from the earth's Children series is almost here. In an interview with Jean Auel (the Auther) in June 2009 she said she is almost ready to take the final draft to her Agent. It should be out sometime in 2010. For those of us that love this series we are use to the wait. Each book seem to take for ever to come out but the results are well worth it.

The years of research Jean does for each book come through in her writing and make for some of the most wonderful stories. She tries to be as accurate as possible when writing fiction but you can picture the scenes in her book as if you were there.

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 Written by N. Gallego / J. Oliva

Wednesday, 24th of June, 2009

American writer and author of 'Earth's Children' series Jean Marie Auel visited the La Cabilla archaeological site yesterday, in the neighbourhood of Benzú. Auel is making her researching study to start writing the 7th book of the series, which will be the last. 'El Faro' [newspaper] talked with her to know more about her visit and what impressions she has got from Ceuta.

- You have been visiting several sites in Spain and now Benzú's. What have you found in them?
- In Bezú's site, the fist thing we have done is watching the panoramic view of the sea, where we have been able to gaze the beauty of the [Gibraltar] Strait. Besides, the materials are very ancient there and you can see pieces of tools and devices embedded in rock. So all of this can give us an idea of how the human beings used to live there so long ago and how they were. It's something unique.
- Something of all the things that you have seen in Bezú has inspired you enough to use it for your next book?
- I don't know yet. Perhaps I count on it in some way but not for the book that I'm writing now. I'll have to think about it and evaluate it and maybe I could use something for the next book. I've found here a very interesting material to work on
- It's well known that you are really interested in the Gibraltar Strait. Why?
- I'm interested because I think that it's possible that the Neanderthals had crossed through there in their way towards Africa or in the other way round. Maybe. Even though these extremes are not archaelogically proved I'm just a fiction-writer, which means that I don't write about anything official or technical. Sometimes archaeologists don't agree with some of the things that I write, but I must insist that it's only fiction despite I use some historic elements and facts. Personally, I like to add some magical elements in my stories. I use some actual facts and then I give them a special touch. About the Strait, I think that it's a fascinating place because the north of Africa and the south of Europe are really closed. The Mediterranean Sea is all around, and also because of the weather, and also because it has a very important historical remark.

- Will you ever finish the 'Earth's Children' saga?
- Actually there will be seven books. I'm finishing the 6th now and it'll be soon in my agent's hands. It'll be available probably through next year. For the final book, I have to start writing it when I come back home. It's for it why I am making all this current researching study.

- You are an expert on Ancient societies, in fact you are an anthropologist. Do you really think that we have changed so much as we have been told?
- [Laughs] I think that we are still very similar, actually. For instance, if you take the example of the Neanderthal man who died over a stone, who lived all his life blind of an eye and who had serious injuries on his bones, you'll see that he was a man who was driven by love. Actually he didn't hunt for himself, but for the people he took after. For that reason, I really think that even in the Ancient societies people love and take care of each other. We are more similar than we are used to think, probably they loved one each other too.
- Your books are quite educational because they summarise some of the most important moments in the human evolution. Do you think that they should be used to teach Prehistory at schools?
- I write for adult people. I speak about the overall experience of the human being, about the inner feelings and sexuality. Apart from this, yes, I think that my books are very useful because, especially in some educational systems, like the Scandinavian, some parts of my books are used for this purpose and brought to the schools and included in their textbooks.
- Did you ever think about becoming rich and famous as a book writer?
- I haven't earned so much money writing books, but for me it's more important the proud of being read in so many countries rather than money. My books have been translated into 35 languages, more or less, like Hebrew, Spanish or Catalan.
- Have you tried reading your own books in another language?
- I can't read in other languages. Anyway, some of my readers have sent letters to me explaining if the translations were good or bad. In the cases where the translations were bad, I had to change of publisher in order to not distort the literary work.

In the 2nd Novel our Heroine of The Clan of The Cave Bear has set out on her solo adventure in a not so friendly world.

This unforgettable adventure into the distant pass takes us back to the primeval world and Ayla now grown in to a courageous young woman on her own.

She has been cast out by her adopted Clan and has started her quest to find her own people The Others", but with little time before the harsh winter comes she's need to find shelter and prepare for the winter.

She finds a sheltered valley with a herd of steppe horse and starts to prepare for the hard winter to come. She has a unique kinship with these animals and she settles in to a hard but calm routine that turn in to more than just one winter.

Little did she know the day that she saves a man she find screaming in pain would change her life forever.