Jean M. Auel - 5 - The Stone Dwellings

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Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

List of Characters

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am more grateful than I can say for the assistance of many people who

have helped me to learn about the ancient world of the people who lived

when glaciers advanced far south of today's margins and covered a quarter

of the earth's surface. However, there are some details which I have cho-

sen to use, particularly with regard to certain theories and the timing of

certain sites and events, which may not be accepted by the majority of the

professional community at this time. Some may be oversights but others

were chosen deliberately, usually because it felt more accurate to this

subjective novelist who must write about people with an understanding of

human nature and logical motivation for their actions.

prehistoric splendor painted by those early modern humans of Upper Pa-

leolithic Europe, the Cro Magnons— work that can still stand against the

finest of today.

Later, when we met again at La Micoque, a very early Neanderthal site,

I began to get more of a sense of the unique time at the beginning of our

prehistory when the first anatomically modern humans arrived in Europe

and encountered the Neanderthals who had been living there since long

before the last Ice Age. Because I wanted to understand the process that is

used to learn about our ancient ancestors, my husband and I worked for a

short time at Dr. Rigaud's more recent excavation, Grotte Seize. He also

gave me many insights into the rich and expansive living site, which today

is named Laugerie Haute, but that I have called the Ninth Cave of the

Zelandonii.

Dr. Rigaud has been of help throughout the series, but I appreciate his

assistance with this book in particular. Before I started writing The Shelters

of Stone, I took all the information I had gathered about the region and the

way it was then and wrote the entire background setting in terms of the

story, giving the sites my own names and describing the landscape so that

when I needed the information it was easily available in my own words. I

something I had never done before. I asked Dr. Rigaud, who knows the

region and understands the archeology, to check over those many, many

pages of background material for obvious errors. I didn't fully realize what a

huge job I had asked of him, and I thank him profoundly for his time and

efforts. He paid me the compliment of saying that the information was rea-

sonably accurate, but he also told me some things I didn't know or hadn't

understood, which I was able to correct and incorporate. Any mistakes

remaining are entirely mine.

I am deeply grateful to another French archeologist, Dr. Jean Clottes,

whom I met through his colleague, Dr. Rigaud. In Montignac, at the cele-

bration for the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Lascaux Cave, he was

kind enough to translate for me in quiet tones the gist of some of the pres-

entations given in French at the conference that was held in conjunction

with the Lascaux event. Over the years since then we have met on both

sides of the Atlantic, and I cannot thank him enough for his kindness and

exceptional generosity with his time and assistance. He has guided me

through many painted and engraved caves, especially in the region near

the Pyrenees Mountains. Besides the fabulous caves on Count Begouen's

property, I was particularly impressed with Gargas, which has so much

more than the handprints for which it is so well known. I also appreciated

I made my first visit to the cave of Niaux in the foothills of the Pyrenees

in 1982, for which I must thank Dr. Jean-Michel Belamy. I was indelibly

impressed with Niaux, the animals painted on the walls of the Black Salon,

the children's footprints, the beautifully painted horses deep inside the ex-

tensive cavern beyond the small lake, and much more. I was moved be-

yond words, for Dr. Belamy's more recent gift of the exceptional first edition

of the first book about the cave of Niaux.

I feel gratitude beyond measure to Count Robert Begouen, who has

protected and preserved the remarkable caves on his land, L'Enlene, Tuc

d'Audoubert, and Trois Freres, and established a unique museum for the

artifacts that have been so carefully excavated from them. I was over-

whelmed with the two caves I saw, and am deeply grateful to him, and Dr.

Clottes, for guiding my visits.

I also want to thank Dr. David Lewis-Williams, a gentle man with strong

convictions, whose work with the Bushmen in Africa and the remarkable

rock paintings of their ancestors has engendered profound and fascinating

ideas and several books, one co-written with Dr. Clottes, The Shamans of

Prehistory, which suggests that the ancient French cave painters may have

had similar reasons for decorating the rock walls of their caves.

translating them for me. Through his efforts, I had the honor of meeting

three of the men who as boys discovered the beautiful cave of Lascaux in

the 1940's. The site brought me to tears when I saw its white walls filled

with such remarkable polychrome paintings, I can only imagine the impres-

sion it must have made on the four boys who followed a dog into a hole and

saw the cave for the first time since its entrance collapsed 15,000 years

ago. Dr. Bahn has been of great assistance to me, both through discus-

sions and his series of novels.

I feel great warmth and gratitude to Dr. Jan Jelinek for continued dis-

cussions about the Upper Paleolithic Era. His insights about the people

who lived during the time when anatomically modern humans arrived and

settled in Europe and met the Neanderthals who were living there are al-

ways valuable. I also want to thank him for his assistance to the Czech

publishers in their translations of the previous books about the intriguing

prehistoric era that are the subject of this series of novels.

I read the books of Dr. Alexander Marshack, who pioneered the tech-

nique of examining carved artifacts under a microscope, long before I met

him and I appreciate the efforts he has made into the understanding of Cro

Magnons and Neanderthals, and the papers he sends me. I have been

ancient cave, for her kindness, and particularly for giving me a special pri-

vate tour. She lived with that very singular site for many years, and knew it

as though it were her own home. She showed me many formations and

paintings that are not usually presented to the casual visitor—it would make

the tours far too long—and I am more grateful than she can know for the

unique insights that were revealed.

I also want to thank M. Renaud Bombard of Presse de la Cite, my

French publisher, for his willingness to help me find whatever I needed,

whenever I was in France doing research. Whether it was a place to make

copies of a large manuscript not too far from where I was staying with

someone there who could speak English so I could explain what I needed,

or a good hotel in the region during the off-season when most hotels were

closed, or a fabulous restaurant in the Loire valley where we could cele-

brate the anniversary of dear friends, or late reservations in a popular re-

sort area on the Mediterranean which happened to be on the way to a site I

wanted to see. Whatever it was, M. Bombard always managed to make it

happen, and I am truly grateful.

In order to write this book, I had to learn about more than archeology

and paleoanthropology and there are several other people who were of

orthopaedic surgery and trauma, and physician assistant to Dr. Bolhofner,

for his cogent explanation of internal injuries, and his excellent care of my

son. I also appreciated the discussion with Rick Frye, volunteer emergency

paramedic in Washington State, about what to do first in medical emergen-

cies.

Thanks also to Dr. John Kallas, Portland, Oregon, expert in the collec-

tion of wild foods, who continually experiments with processing and cooking

them, for sharing his extensive knowledge not only of wild plant foods, but

also of clams, mussels and vegetables from the sea. I had no idea there

were so many different kinds of edible seaweed.

And special thanks to Lenette Stroebel of Prineville, Oregon, who has

been breeding back from wild horses to the original Tarpan, and turning up

some interesting characteristics. For example, they have hooves so hard

they don't need horseshoes even on rocky ground, they have a stand-up

mane, and they have markings similar to the horses painted on some cave

walls, such as the dark legs and tail, and sometimes stripes on the flanks.

And they have a beautiful gray color called gruya. She not only allowed me

to see the horses, but she told me a great deal about them, and then sent a

To early readers, Karen Auel-Feuer, Kendall Auel, Cathy Humble,

Deanna Sterett, Claudine Fisher and Ray Auel, who hurriedly read a first

finished draft and offered some good constructive suggestions, thank you.

I am deeply indebted to Betty Prashker, my sharp, smart and savvy

editor. Her suggestions are always helpful and her insights invaluable.

Thanks beyond measure to my literary agent, Jean Naggar, who flew

here to read the first finished draft, and along with her husband, Serge

Naggar, made some suggestions, but told me it worked. She has been

there from the beginning, performing miracles with this series. Thanks also

to Jennifer Weltz of the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, who is working

with Jean to perform further miracles especially with foreign rights.

With great regret, I offer gratitude in memoriam, to David Abrams, pro-

fessor of anthropology and archeology in Sacramento, California. In 1982,

David and his research assistant and future wife, Diane Kelly, took Ray and

me on my first research trip to Europe—France, Austria, Czechoslovakia,

and Ukraine (then Russia)—to visit for the first time some of the sites

where the books in the Earth's Children® series took place, some 30,000

years ago. I was able to get a sense of the localities, which helped me tre-

could live and work. "Oz" had a special genius for creating beautiful and

efficient homes, but more than that, he had been a good friend to both Ray

and me for years. He thought they had caught the cancer in time, and mar-

ried Paula hoping for many more years with her and her children, but it was

not to be. I feel great sadness that he is no longer with us.

There are many others I probably should thank for insights and assis-

tance, but this is too long already, so I will end with the one who counts the

most. I am grateful to Ray, for his love, support and encouragement, for

helping to provide the time and space for me to work in spite of my strange

hours, and for being there.

THE SHELTERS OF STONE

Jean M. Auel

People were gathering on the limestone ledge, looking down at them

warily. No one made a gesture of welcome, and some held spears in posi-

tions of readiness if not actual threat. The young woman could almost feel

their edgy fear. She watched from the bottom of the path as more people

crowded together on the ledge, staring down, many more than she thought

there would be. She had seen that reluctance to greet them from other

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