ayla

It was a time when the Earth was swathed in the ancient ice, a time when the Clan of the Cave Bear thrived. Their ways were old, but their existence was harmonious with their icy world. Silhouetted by the moon's glow, Ayla, the young girl from the Others, who had been accepted into the clan, was called upon for an extraordinary task.

In the vast, prehistoric landscape where the ancient mammoth roamed, a young woman named Ayla, with her beloved Jondalar, the Zelandonii, had made a temporary home with the Mamutoi, the Mammoth Hunters. Life in the shadow of the great beasts was an equilibrium of harmony and struggle, a blend of respect and fear, an existence that carved stories into the marrow of their bones. As the Mamutoi believed in the spirit of the mammoth, they hunted only with reverence, and their hunts were as much a sacred rite as they were a means of survival.