Unfortunately, the clan leader Volt, forbids cave painting unless you're a clan cave painter, like Graybeard. The story starts out with a young boy named Tao, who is obsessed with cave painting and drawing. In the novel Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel, it jumps into the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain and dates back to about 18 to 20 thousand years ago. It is now known that Prezwalski's horse is a different species entirely (different chromosome number) and that tarpans may have added more to the domesticated horses of today than originally thought. Back when this was published, it was thought that Prezwalkski's horse were one of four horse types that created all of the root stock of the domesticated horse. The only big problem I had with the book was that there was confusion about tarpans and horses. The protagonist's problems are still the same problems we have today - trying to get along with a bunch of assholes who want to sacrifice you to their god(s). There are cool animals to "ooo" and "ahh" over. Believe it or not, the lack of sex made for a much better book. To be fair, Denzel's book came out 8 years after The Clan of the Cave Bear and 6 years after The Valley of Horses but he stuck more to the everyday struggles of a young cave man rather than the everynight sexcapades that Auel centered on. Better than the entire series of Jean Auel's M.
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