A natural disaster leaves a young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous ice age land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. See also Auel's Mammoth Hunters and Valley of Horses.

Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different.

The Cahokians believed that the divine hero Morning Star had been resurrected in the flesh. To the astonishment of the ruling clan, an attempt is made on the living god's life.

The story of young boy's apprenticeship to becoming the Shaman of the Raven clan during the Palaeolithic age.