Talk:The Clan of the Cave Bear
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Sorry for the anonymous post, but I noticed that this article lists "Clan of the Cavebear" as a historical fiction novel. Technically this isn't correct, because there are no written records extending back to the books setting 20-30,000 years ago, thus there is no written history. A more accurate term for this book would be "prehistoric fiction". Someone should change this small error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.144.32.109 (talk) 02:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Neanderthals (Clan people) in the novel
I am currently reading the novels again ( I proceded to The Mammoth Hunters so far) and I think Ms. Auel might have exaggerated the difference between Homo sapiens sapiens and the Neanderthals. I wrote a bit about it in this article. However, it spans all the 5 existing novels of the Earth's Children series. Please do not delete my paragraph on the alleged exaggeration of the differences right away. Maybe it should be moved to the Earth's Children article. But whatever - I feel it should be discussed. --Maxl 22:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
According to new theories (f.ex: Steven Mythen in "The Singing Neanderthals") Jean Auel might have seriously underestimated the differences between Homo Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapiens.
Lignomontanus 16:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm a big fan of the Earths Children series and I've read all the books numerous times, as well as interviews with Jean. M. Auel and the likes. The problem I have with this article is where it says that she only did her research from the local library and had no money to travel. That's exactly the opposite, she traveled to Europe several times and went to actual caves and archaeological digs in order to have a better understanding of what kind of shelters they would have in those days. I think that the article should be considered for editing so that everything is correct.
--Aphiliam 03:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it she only travelled to research the later books, after the success of the first one (Clan of the cave bear) which she researched at home using her local public library. The source (interview with Jean Auel) you quote certainly does say that she did travel to do research, but it is ambiguous whether that applied to all the books including the first, or not. Is there anything in the sleeve notes of the first which tells us? (I don't have a copy to hand at the moment.) --John Stumbles 23:12, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sling
One of the main elements of this story is Ayla's development of a way to throw two stones in rapid succession from a sling. Unfortunately, the method as described is impossible, because when one launches a stone from a sling one does so by letting go of one end. Thus, tossing up another stone and catching it in the pouch of the sling, even if possible, would not allow one to fire again rapidly because one would only have hold of one end of the sling.
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 18:45, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Size and scope of the article
As it stands this is almost a stub article. With many Round Tuits it could be expanded greatly to give a much more detailed summary of the story. The current text might be used in an article such as Earth's Children. In the meantime I've removed one particular edit which went into greater detail about the relationship between Ayla and Broud since that simply made no sense in the context of the very limited scope of this article as it stands (although it would be appropriate in a fulls scale article). --John Stumbles 22:21, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Mention should also be made of the film version of the novel starring Daryl Hannah —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.191.223.35 (talk) 22:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
