Stephen Baxter, Icebones (2001), about a cow mammoth who awakens from a thousand-year sleep to find her herd may be too weak to survive on its own #3 in the Behemoth trilogy.īernard Cornwell, Stonehenge (1999), about the building of Stonehenge.

Stephen Baxter, Longtusk (1999), about a bull mammoth's effort to lead his herd to safety on the Asian continent after human hunters arrive #2 in the Behemoth trilogy. Stephen Baxter, Silverhair (1999 also titled Behemoth), a story about a young female mammoth in prehistoric Siberia and her herd's struggle to survive #1 in the Behemoth trilogy. Jean Auel, The Land of Painted Caves (2011), about a Cro-Magnon woman who settles down with her husband and child in a clan where she studies to become a shaman #6 and last in the Earth's Children series. Jean Auel, The Shelters of Stone (2002), about a Cro-Magnon woman #5 in the Earth's Children series.

Jean Auel, The Plains of Passage (1990), about a Cro-Magnon woman #4 in the Earth's Children series. Jean Auel, The Mammoth Hunters (1985), about a Cro-Magnon woman #3 in the Earth's Children series. Jean Auel, The Valley of Horses (1982), about a Cro-Magnon girl who leaves the tribe of Neanderthals who raised her #2 in the Earth's Children series. Jean Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), about a Cro-Magnon girl raised by a tribe of Neanderthals #1 in the Earth's Children series. Purchase from the Book Depository, Amazon or Powell's Books William Sarabande's First Americans series Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's First North Americans series Novels in a series are listed in the order they appear in the series. Michener and Edward Rutherfurd, which cover many centuries or millennia, are included in this section whether or not they begin in prehistory. Conflicts between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons or Homo sapiens (our own species) are prominent in many novels set in Europe, while novels set in America feature a wide variety of settings, from the crossing of the Bering Straits during the Ice Age to life in prehistoric Louisiana. Jean Auel was not the first novelist to write about life in prehistoric times, but her bestselling Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequels breathed life into a new genre of fiction. Prehistoric Africa, Polynesia and Elsewhere Novels Set in Prehistoric Times and Time-Sweep Novelsįor news on the latest additions to this website, see the blog.

The Shepherd Kings by Judith Tarr