The Clan of the Cave Bear-洞熊家族

作者：Auel Jean M

书名：The Clan of the Cave Bear《洞熊家族》 

中文简介：《洞熊家族》（英语：The Clan of the Cave Bear）是美国作家珍·奥尔（Jean M. Auel） 于1980年出版的历史小说，《石器时代传奇》丛书的第一部。在旧石器时代晚期，尼安德特人与克罗玛侬人（最初的现代智人）同时生存于欧洲，作者由此假想两种人种彼此接触的过程。故事叙述一个五岁的克罗玛侬人女孩爱拉，因为地震灾害失去亲人，而被一个穴熊族部落（尼安德特人）收养。爱拉身为“异族”而备受歧视，但她仍然在困境中努力成长。

本书对于石器时代原始部落的采集狩猎生活、以及宗教巫术仪式，皆有独到而细腻的描写，唯作者是基于写作当时的人类学知识来设想，未必与晚近的考古新发现相符。

英文简介：This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. 

A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.