The Others is the term which the Clan of the Cave Bear uses when referring to the Cro-Magnon peoples described in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series. Though the reader learns the names of several different tribes of the Others during the series' progression, the heroine, Ayla, consistently uses the term when referring to the several tribes in general.
Throughout "The Valley of Horses" and "The Plains of Passage", large parts of which are trav...
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The Others is the term which the Clan of the Cave Bear uses when referring to the Cro-Magnon peoples described in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series. Though the reader learns the names of several different tribes of the Others during the series' progression, the heroine, Ayla, consistently uses the term when referring to the several tribes in general.
Throughout "The Valley of Horses" and "The Plains of Passage", large parts of which are travel adventure narratives, several tribes of Cro-Magnon (Modern human) peoples are introduced. A few are never named, merely referenced and noted as hiding in fear from the travelers and Ayla's animals along the return journey of Jondalar and his bride-to-be to his home in south-western France at 'The Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii'; other groups are only given the stage briefly, as both novels are much concerned with experiences encountered on the journeys and cannot stay long in one place. These tribes tend to differ mostly in government forms,...
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