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Jean M.Auel.Jean Marie Auel was born as Jean Marie Untinen on February 18 in 1936 in Chicago Illinois, she is an American writer. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of historical fiction novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals. Her books have sold 34 million copies worldwide in many translations.
At one time, she shared a secretary with the author Ursula K. Le Guin. Mrs. Jane Auel earned an MBA in 1976, and she has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Maine and the Mount Vernon College for Women. In 1977, Mrs. Jane Auel began extensive library research of the Ice Age for her first book. She joined a survival class to learn how to construct an ice cave, and learned primitive methods of making fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal skills expert Jim Riggs. Jane Auel
describes Riggs as "the kind of person you could put into one end of a wilderness naked, and he'd come out the other end fed, clothed, and sheltered." The Clan of the Cave Bear" was nominated for numerous literary awards, including an American Booksellers Association nomination for best first novel.
After the sales success of her first book, Jane Auel has been able to travel to the sites of prehistoric ruins and relics, and also to meet many of the experts with whom she had been corresponding. Her research has taken her across Europe from France to Ukraine, including most of what Marije Gimbutas called Old Europe. She has developed a close friendship with Dr. Jean Clottes of France who was responsible for, among many other things, the exploration of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave discovered in 1994. Jean Auel's
books have been commended for their antropological authenticity and their ethnobotanical accuracy. However, recent archaeological research may suggest that some prehistorical details in the series are inaccurate and others fictional, and that specifications of prehistorical milestones are sometimes arbitrary and inconsistent. For example, the differences between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens may have been exaggerated or underestimated in the series; it has been found that Neanderthals had a hvoid bone and may thus have been capable of using vocal language and not as dependent on sign language as portrayed in the series (the existence of a Neanderthal hyoid bone wasn't confirmed until 1983, some years after the first book in the series was published).
The Earth Children Serie contain the following books:
- 1980 - The Clan of the Cave Bear
- 1982 - The Valley of Horses
- 1985 - The Mammoth Hunters
- 1990 - The Plains of Passage
- 2002 - The Shelters of Stone
- 2011 - The Land of Painted Caves (Nederlandse publicatiedatum: maart 2011)
Look for the first 50 pages of the last book in this series the official site of Jean M.Auel.
The First book was made into a movie in 1986 by Michael Chapman: The Clan of the Cave-Bear, the role of Ayla was played bij Daryl Hannah.
Thanks to Wikipedia
H.V. Anderz.
Zie ook: Official Website Jane Auel.
Zie ook: Jane Auel on Wikipedia.
Zie ook: The Earth's Children on Wikipedia.
Zie ook: Interview with Jane Auel.
Zie ook: De Aardkinderen.
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