Cathal O'Regan

I have mix feelings about the series. Clan of the cave bear is good but some of the science is outdated, since it was published in 1980. But for the time Auel did her research and as the books go on she puts more and more research and she shows her work.

It’s the rest of the series is where I get mixed. I enjoy the world Auel creates. The more the books go on (granted I have two books to go after Plain of Passage) it becomes more about the world and Ayla and Jondalar are the people she decided to use to explore it. There are info dumps about prehistoric creatures and prehistoric humans.

I like Ayla but yeah I get the Mary Sue argument. But she’s such a kind heart I forgive it.

Jondalar is ummm Mister Rochester ish. He gets questionable. He is less forgivable.

Mammoth Hunters is so far the worse, it’s not bad but very average. It just went on and on with an additional of a love triangle I did not care about. Especially since you knew who she was going to pick. The whole plot I’m yelling just talk to each other!

Auel isn’t the best with plot.

Also the sequels the obsession with sex which to me is very annoying to me.

I have mix feelings about the series. Clan of the cave bear is good but some of the science is outdated, since it was published in 1980. But for the time Auel did her research and as the books go on she puts more and more research and she shows her work.

It’s the rest of the series is where I get mixed. I enjoy the world Auel creates. The more the books go on (granted I have two books to go after Plain of Passage) it becomes more about the world and Ayla and Jondalar are the people she decided to use to explore it. There are info dumps about prehistoric creatures and prehistoric humans.

I like Ayla but yeah I get the Mary Sue argument. But she’s such a kind heart I forgive it.

Jondalar is ummm Mister Rochester ish. He gets questionable. He is less forgivable.

Mammoth Hunters is so far the worse, it’s not bad but very average. It just went on and on with an additional of a love triangle I did not care about. Especially since you knew who she was going to pick. The whole plot I’m yelling just talk to each other!

Auel isn’t the best with plot.

Also the sequels the obsession with sex which to me is very annoying to me.

I have mix feelings about the series. Clan of the cave bear is good but some of the science is outdated, since it was published in 1980. But for the time Auel did her research and as the books go on she puts more and more research and she shows her work.

It’s the rest of the series is where I get mixed. I enjoy the world Auel creates. The more the books go on (granted I have two books to go after Plain of Passage) it becomes more about the world and Ayla and Jondalar are the people she decided to use to explore it. There are info dumps about prehistoric creatures and prehistoric humans.

I like Ayla but yeah I get the Mary Sue argument. But she’s such a kind heart I forgive it.

Jondalar is ummm Mister Rochester ish. He gets questionable. He is less forgivable.

Mammoth Hunters is so far the worse, it’s not bad but very average. It just went on and on with an additional of a love triangle I did not care about. Especially since you knew who she was going to pick. The whole plot I’m yelling just talk to each other!

Auel isn’t the best with plot.

Also the sequels the obsession with sex which to me is very annoying to me.

Bradley James in Lewis (Part 5)

+ bonus

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…