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Archeology for Jean Auel fans
Archeology for Jean Auel fans, including all the archaeological sites referred to by Jean Auel in her series of books about the ice age heroine, Ayla.

Castel-Merle, Vallon des Roches. This is called in the EC books 'Old Valley, Cave 5, self sufficiency'.

La Madeleine. This is known as 'River Front' in the EC books.

Laugerie Haute, known in the EC books as The Ninth Cave - Arts and Crafts

L'Abri des Marseilles, between Laugerie Haute and Laugerie Basse

The Dordogne - scene for Book 5, Shelters of Stone. Scenes from the Dordogne, cooking Clan style - preparation of ptarmigan, and using a firestone to make a fire.

Laugerie Basse, known in the EC books as Down River - Projects

Dolni Vestonice. EC fans know this as the place of the S'Armunai, where Attaroa set herself up as despotic leader of the group.

Font de Gaume in the French Dordogne. In the EC books, this is known as The Deep of Fountain Rocks, where the headland looks like the face of the Mother.
Lepenski Vir - a mesolithic site on the Donau. While this is not the exact site as described by Auel, it is in the same general area as the Sharamudoi, who consist of the Shamudoi and the Ramudoi. The Shamudoi live on the land, while the Ramudoi live on floating docks moored to the shore of the Great Mother River, and ply their boats up and down the Danube in the region known as the Iron Gates Gorge.

The Sungir - Sunghir - Sungaea site. Although Auel never tells us much about the Sungaea, the burial described in Plains of Passage is derived from this site, a long way away, near Moscow. Two children, aged 8 and 13, were buried head to head with elaborately decorated clothes and other jewellery.

Mezhirich. This is known as Mammoth Camp in the EC series. It is very much as Jean Auel described it.

Mezin. Known to EC fans as Wolf Camp, it is located at Mezin, in the Ukraine, and is identical to both the way Jean described it, as well as its position and the artefacts found there, right down to the slope of the ground and its position relative to the river nearby.

Shanidar Cave in Iraq. The Clan Cave in the EC series is located on the Crimean Peninsula, but the original was located hundreds of kilometres away, and is a very important Neanderthal site. The skeletons corresponding to Creb and Iza are from there.

The Clan Fishing site - Sudak on the Crimean coast

The Venus of Willendorf. This is Jondalar's sculpture of the mother.

The Venus of Brassempouy. This is the sculpture of Ayla.

Sculpture of 'Whinney', Ayla's horse.

The Sacred Root -
The sacred root is not Datura, however there is reason for thinking that Jean used at least the physical form and growth habits of mandrake when she created her "sacred root". The effects, however, are closer those of the iboga plant.

Golden Thread - Ayla's contraceptive.
Maps of the Earth's Children Series - Maps include the true extent of the ice in the last ice age, as well as maps of The Territory of the Zelandonii, Journeys in Clan of the Cave Bear, local area around the cave in Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, Iron Gates map, local map of the Sharamudoi, local map of The Mammoth Hunters Lion Camp, map of The Ukraine, map of The Plains of Passage, Clickable map of the Plains of Passage, Donau Mouth to First Snow from the Plains of Passage, The Encounter with the S'Armunai, Wurm and Riss Glaciation in the headwaters of the Donau (Danube), How I draw the maps.

Geology for Earth Children fans

An evening with Jean Auel - Various interviews with Jean Auel, talks by her, memories of talks by Jean, inconsistencies in the EC books.
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