The Clan of the Cave Bear | Historical Context
What Happened to the Neanderthals
Perhaps the people most frustrated with the commercial success of The Clan of the Cave Bear are anthropologists and archaeologists. The problems revolve around Auel's physical descriptions of the Clan—whom she never calls Neanderthals— and her wholesale creation of their culture. While the theories surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthal peoples from Europe and Asia are still the subject of much scholarly debate, the vast majority of anthropologists and archaeologists agree (and agreed even at the time...
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