Najean, Yves. 2001. Era. la vie d'une femme a l'aube du neolithique. French. L'Harmattan.

Nathan, Robert [1894-1985]. 1965. The Mallot Diaries. 8vo. 174 pp. 1st ed., New York. Alfred A. Knopf.* Late fantasy novel by the prolific Nathan, a well-regarded tale about cave people and the modern world. Two anthropologists find a tribe of Neanderthals in the mountains of Arizona and spend a month with them, barely escaping when the youth of the tribe revolt and overthrow their elders in a violent revolution... a protest against, among other things, the unfair distribution of the jelly beans and root beer they acquire in their monthly trade expedition. This time, the steam whistle on the old locomotive doesn't protect them...

Naus, Henri. 1928 (1998). Alaa, nouvelle préhistorique. French. (Alaa, a prehistoric story). illustrated by Paul Collet. 40 pp. 21 cm, Imprimerie Bourdeaux, Dinant. (facsimile: Recto-Verso, Bruxelles [Belgium], "Ides et Autres", 40 pp. 1998, shown)

Neville, Kris (Ottman) [1925-1980]. 1967. Run, the Spearmaker. in: Riverside Quarterly, Vol. 3, #1, Aug. 1967.

_____. 1967 (1975). Yari-zukuri no Ran. Japanese. translated from the English Run, the Spearmaker by Tetsu Yano. illustrated by Toru Kanamori (cover). Tokyo. Hayakawa Bunko (SF175). ESF: "Among the fiction Neville wrote with his wife, Lil, is a 1975 novel published only in Japanese whose title translates as Run, the Spearmaker"

Nida, William Lewis [1874-]. 1911. Ab the Cave Man; A story of the time of the stone age. illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder (8 color illustrations). (adapted for young readers from Stanley Waterloo's "Story of Ab"). 166 pp. 19 cm, Chicago, New York. A. Flanagan Company. (1911, 1918: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, illus. by Fred Stearns. 19.6 cm, illus. endpapers; 1923, 1934, 1937: A. Flanagan)* 1911 Flanagan 1918 G&D 1937 Flanagan Preface by William Nida: For nearly a dozen years it has been my pleasure to observe the intense interest shown by second grade pupils as they listened to the "Story of Ab" from the lips of their teachers. No other book available has held our children so completely in its spell. Teachers in other schools reporting the same lively enthusiasm for the story among their pupils, it seemed an injustice to childhood not to make an effort to put "Ab" within the reach of every child. By special arrangements with Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. and Mr. Waterloo, the author of "Ab", the work is now ready for the little folks. I have followed Mr. Waterloo's book closely save for two chapters which are my own. My gratitude is due Miss Mabel Pumphrey and Miss Florence Gardiner of Oak Park...

_____. 1929. The Tree Boys. illustrated by Grace Betts. Vol. I of "The Story of Man". 128 pp. 20 cm, Chicago. Laidlaw Brothers.* KIP AND TIM Kip was a tree boy. Tim was a tree boy, too. The boys lived in a tree. They lived in a tall, tall tree. Mofa was the mother. She lived in the tree, too. She lived in the tree hut. Mofa loved her tree boys.   She loved her Baby Bark. "Do not fall, Baby Bark," said Mofa. "I will play on the ground," said Tim. Kip will play on the ground, too." "No, no. Play in the tree," said Mother. "Lions live on the ground. Tigers live on the ground. Tree boys play in the tree." ...

_____. 1929. Fleetfoot the Cave Boy. illustrated by Grace Betts. Vol. II of "The Story of Man". 192 pp. 19.2 cm, Chicago. Laidlaw Brothers.* RUNNING FROM A FOREST FIRE The sun was going down. A big black cloud was rolling up. "A big storm is coming," shouted little Fleetfoot. "Wind God is roaring through the trees. He may blow our house out of the big oak tree." Lightning split the sky. It struck a tree in Black Forest and set it on fire. The wind was blowing the fire from tree to tree. "Fire! Fire!" shouted Fleetfoot to Mother in the oak tree. "Climb down! Be quick! Fire God will bite you up there." ...

_____. 1930. Taming the Animals. illustrated by Grace Betts. Vol. III of "The Story of Man". 240 pp. 20 cm, Chicago, NY. Laidlaw Brothers.* A BATTLE WITH HUNGRY WOLVES The sun was setting behind the mountains as Whirlwind came running to the camp fire, shouting, "Wolves! Wolves are chasing me! They are close behind!" "Wolves will not attack our camp in daylight," said Red Crown, chief of the Bison Clan, "unless they are very, very hungry." "I shot all my arrows at them and ran," said the boy. "You should not waste your arrows on the wolves," replied Red Crown. "You must go and find your arrows tomorrow." The Bison Clan had been hunting all day. They could not find reindeer or wild horses. ...

_____. 1931. Dan-Hur and the First Farmers. illustrated by Grace Betts. Vol. IV of "The Story of Man". 256 pp. 19.2 cm, Chicago. Laidlaw Brothers.* LIVING IN TENTS Blind Eron's tribe had many black tents scattered about in the valleys. He had nine sons who were the master herders of his flocks. Each son with his servants took his black tent, his dogs, and his herd to some quiet valley to graze for many days. They took dried meat to use with their milk and cheese for food. They took good care of their herds, for the animals gave them nearly all the food they had. About each black tent there was much doing. You might hear the barking of dogs and the whining of puppies, for mother dogs with pups could not follow the herds till the little ones were grown a bit. ...

Niebisch, Jackie. 1987. Die kleinen wilden und das Mammut. German. (The Little Savages and the Mammoth). 58 pp. Reinbek. Wunderlich.

_____. (1994) 1994. On a piégé le mammouth. French. translated from the German Die kleinen wilden und das Mammut by M.J. Lamorlette. (We've caught a mammoth!). 58 pp. "les grandes histoires de la vie", Pocket Jeunesse (Kid Pocket). ISBN: 2266095102. (reprint) Quatre enfants du paléolithique partent à la chasse au mammouth, ils creusent un piège. S'attaquer à plus fort que soi, est-ce bien raisonnable ? Four paleolithic children go out to hunt to a mammoth; they dig a trap. Is it reasonable to attack something so much stronger than oneself?

Noël, André. 1944. Dag et Naïa; Conte des premiers âges. French. (Dag and Naia; tales from the earliest times). in: Siroco n° 55, Tuesday, 6 April 1944, ill. 31 cm. Dag avançait, plus silencieux que le chat sauvage... Comme tous les AIMOUS, il avait les sens aussi fins que les bêtes de la Grande Forêt, et il sentait venir vers lui, l'enveloppant de toutes parts, un danger plus redoutable que la charge de l'éléphant blessé, un danger partout présent comme la nuit, invisible comme elle et lourd d'une menace inconnue. complete text...

Nolan, Dennis. 1989. Wolf Child. (Reading level: Ages 9-12). 40 pp. 23.5 cm, 1st, New York: Macmillan. London: Collier MacMillan. ISBN: 0027681416.* from the dustjacket: Teo has no friends. Too weak to hunt with the men and too old to gather roots and herbs with the women and children, he has become the apprentice of the old toolmaker, Mova. But Mova, silent and absorbed in his work, is poor company for a lonely nine-year-old. Then one day Teo makes a friend: an orphaned wolf cub. more...

Nordlund, Les. 1999. Dust. 272 pp. Winepress Publishing. ISBN: 1579211860. The journey of a strange child from a prehistoric Pishon river village to the fertile Euphrates valley.

Norman, John (pseudonym for John Frederick Lange, Jr.) [1931-]. 1975. Time Slave. 380 pp. DAW pbk.* Sado-masochistic sexist trash. A young, beautiful, female scientist, duped into believing she had been hired for a research project, is demeaned and tortured by her male "colleagues", reduced to slavery and sent back in time to become the sex-slave of a stone-age tribe.

Norton, Andre (pseudonym for Alice Mary Norton) [1912-]. 1958. The Time Traders. (Alice Norton also writes as Andrew North and Allen Weston). 218 pp. 21 cm, New York. World Publishing Co. (Ace pbk, D-461, NY, nd.; [1960] 1st pbk, 191pp) included in "Time Traders"...

_____. 1959. Galactic Derelict. . New York. World Publishing Co. ISBN: 9991134573. (Ace pbk, 246pp, 8th ptg: 7/78) What problems would modern man encounter if he could go back to the early times of primitive man? In a daring experiment in time transfer, Travis Fox, a modern Apache, joins Ross Murdock and Dr. Gordon Ashe on a perilous journey to investigate an alien spaceship wrecked in the age of the Folsom man.

_____. 1967. Operation Time Search. 224 pp. New York. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. "When Ray Osborne, a young American photographer, was precipitated suddenly from the twentieth century into a prehistoric age, he did not know that he had blundered into the field of an experimental time machine. But he soon realized that the new world was a hostile one when he was captured by a strange group of hunters, speaking no language he had ever heard. Only after he met the Murian, Cho, and was able to communicate with him telepathically, did he learn that they were both prisoners of the ruthless city-state Atlantis, which was preparing a war of annihilation against the golden kingdom of Mu. Once they had managed to escape, Ray was increasingly aware that he could not avoid taking part in the coming struggle, but the nature of that part, and its magnitude, was not revealed to him until he had witnessed incredible horrors in the enemy's stronghold. Then at last he understood the justice of the cause he was serving and accepted the fate thrust upon him."

_____. 2000. Time Traders. Combined edition of "The Time Traders" and "Galactic Derelict". 370 pp. BAEN. Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies... and weapons... far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source... and take it down. more...

Nyst, Ray. 1899. Notre père des bois. French. (Our Father of the Woods). 194 pp. Brussels. G. Balat.´

_____. 1900. La Forêt nuptiale. French. (The Nuptial Forest). 259 pp. Brussels. G. Balat.´

_____. 1909. La Caverne. Histoire pittoresque d'une famille humaine de 29 personnes, filles et garçons... French. (The Cave. A Picturesque History of a Human Family of 29 people, boys and girls...). xii. 445 pp. Brussels. the author. (Paris: Baillière et fils; London: David Nutt; Leipsig: Twietmeyer; Milan: Treves frères; Amsterdam: Nilsson & Lamm; Christiana: Aschehoug & Cie.) ´ Full title: La Caverne. Histoire pittoresque d'une famille humaine de 29 personnes, Filles et Garçons, petits et grands, à l'Époque des luxuriantes Forêts tertiaires et des Saisons clémentes dans l'Europe centrale. Roman précédé d'une introduction documentaire. The Cave. A Picturesque history of a human family of 29 people, Girls and Boys, large and small, In the era of the lush tertiary Forests and clement Seasons in central Europe. A Novel preceded by a documentary introduction. bibliography

Oard, Michael & Beverly. 1993. Life in the Great Ice Age. illustrated by Earl & Bonita Snellenberger. Gloria Clanin, editor. New Leaf Press. ISBN: 0890511675. After Noah's Flood the earth and its climate were undergoing drastic changes. The stage had been set for the Great Ice Age. Noah's descendants had to learn how to survive in a strange often hostile land. In part one of Life in the Great Ice Age, we'll spend a summer with Jabeth and his family as they survive a saber-toothed tiger attack, battle a cave bear, and go on a wooly mammoth hunt. Part two explains the scientific reasons for the Ice Age: what caused it, and how long it lasted. It answers the questions, "Will there be another Ice age?" Archaeological and fossil finds are also discussed in detail in this exciting book that explains the Great Ice Age from a Biblical perspective.

Obruchev, V(ladimir) A(fanas'evich) [1863-1956]. 1915 (1924). Plutoniia. Russian. illustrated by G. Nikolsky. 318 pp. Moscow. ONTI.ˆ

_____. (1915) 1957. Plutonia, An adventure through prehistory. translated from the Russian Plutoniia by Fainna Solasko. illustrated by G. Nikolsky. Moscow. Foreign Languages Publishing House. (London, Lawrence & Wishart, tr. Brian Pearce, ill. E.J. Pagram. 319 pp. NY, Criterion Books, 22cm, 253pp, 1961, ISBN: 5050016916; Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1957; 1958, 1982, 1988, 1990) ˆ* A hollow-earth adventure... Early in the 20th century a team of Russian scientists embarks on an Arctic expedition, and discovers the entrance to another world within the earth, where a "sun" shines overhead constantly. Flora and fauna become older and older as they progress more deeply, and they finally come to a world of dinosaurs. On their way back out, closer to the entrance, they encounter a tribe of primitive ape-men, resembling Neanderthals... more...

_____. (1915) 1954. La Plutonie. (Obroutchev). French. translated from the Russian Plutoniia. illustrated by G. Nikolsky. 369 pp. 20.5 cm, Moscow. Editions en Langues Etrangères.ˆ

_____. 1925. Zemlia Sannikova. Russian. illustrated by Y. Krasny. 315 pp. Moscow. ONTI.ˆ

_____. (1925) 1955. Sannikov Land. translated from the Russian Zemlia Sannikova by David Skvirsky. illustrated by Y. Krasny. 372 pp. Moscow. Foreign Languages Publishing Co. ISBN: 5050016908. (Moscow: Raduga Publishers 1988 pbk) First published in 1925, this 'scientific romance' book by Soviet geologist/geographer/traveller Obruchev relates the story of an expedition to find a mysterious island, an Arctic volcanic crater containing flora and fauna of a remote geological period. The five expedition members encounter stone age men, mammoths and cave bears, and discover the reason for the disappearance of the Onkilon tribe, who once inhabited Northern Siberia.

Obukhova, Lydia [1924-]. (1974). Daughter of Night; a tale of three worlds. translated from the Russian Lilit by Mirra Ginsburg. 161 pp. 22 cm, New York. Macmillan. ISBN: 0-02-768500-4.* From the dust-jacket: On earth, it is the dawn of history. Lilith, daughter of night, and the hunter Odam, who have been forbidden to marry, have run away to live together. One day, searching for honey, Lilith sees a strange man step out of an egg-shaped module that has dropped from the sky. Adventurous, and lured by the unknown, Lilith, overcomes her fear and superstition and befriends "the Nameless One," as she describes the stranger. more...

See Paul Barry's "Chad Oliver" page at http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/books/sffh/chadoliver.html University of Texas: In Memoriam - SYMMES CHADWICK OLIVER and here

Oliver, Chad (Symmes Chadwick) [1928-1993]. 1952. Mists of Dawn. 208 pp. 1st ed., Philadelphia. Winston. (1954: London, Hutchinson, 240pp; photographic reprint: Boston, Gregg Press, 1979) ´* 17-year-old Mark is accidentally sent back to 50,000 years BC at the end of the last Ice Age, the Upper Pleistocene, where he is captured by Neanderthals, rescued by Cro-Magnons. He stays with them, participates in a Mammoth hunt...—For a fuller synopsis, read Paul Barry's page.

_____. (1952) 1966. Menschheitsdaemmerung. German. translated from the English Mists of Dawn by Birgit Bohusch. illustrated by Karl Stephan (cover). 64 pp. Moewig Terra, 484. (1985: tr. Lore Strassl, Moewig SF, 3788, 160pp, ISBN: 3-8118-3788-5, cover by Michael Whelan) ´

Ollivier, Jean. 1988. La nuit barbare. French. (Barbarian night). illustrated by Marcello. Cartonné. 44 pp. 33 cm, "Echo des savanes", Paris. Albin Michel, Sefam (Sefam B.D.). ISBN: 2226032894. Les passions à l'époque de la préhistoire, prétexte à une série de planches qui frôlent la pornographie. Passions of prehistoric times, pretext for a set of lightly pornographic cartoons.

_____. (1989) 1989. Apgudens Kvinna. Swedish. translated from the French La nuit barbare. illustrated by Marcello. 46 pp. 30 cm, Topas; nr. 13, Stockholm. RSR Epix. (1990, 18cm Kanin-Pocket)

Oren, Izack. 1968. Asipur Arishon. Hebrew. (The First Story). in: Pney Ador Cepney Acelev (The face of a generation is like the face of a dog). p.58-69. short story. 318 pp. Jerusalem. Ogdan. The first Homo sapiens man and his relationship with the older race to which he was born.

× Orgill, Douglas [1922-1984] & John Gribbin [1946-] . 1982. Brother Esau. 1st US, New York. Harper & Row. ISBN: 0060390166. Not prehistoric man. "High in the Himalayas a remarkable killer is at work. This creature can break the back of a snow leopard or a pony, and the international archeological team working in the area can no more explain how a pony's head was ripped off clean than they can explain the very different datings of two strange skulls found side by side in a cave. That is, until the day that a collapsing wall traps a very strange creature. Something between a gorilla and a man — barrel-shaped, powerful, wordless but not voiceless — from the very first it casts a peculiar spell of familiarity, and possibilities of affection on some, but not all, of the humans in its vicinity." So begins this novel of man's long-lost brother. Ancestor? Abominable Snowman? DNA tests show him to be definitely Homo, if not sapiens...

× _____. (1982) 1982. Le Sixième hiver. French. translated from the English Brother Esau. (The Sixth Winter). Broché. 296 pp. 24 cm, Cadre Vert, Seuil. ISBN: 2020061856. (1986: Points-Roman (Seuil), Poche - 344 pages, 18cm, ISBN : 202009181X) Not prehistoric man. - "Science-fiction. Une fin du monde originale, indépendante des méfaits de l'humanité est proposée. Retour brutal de la Terre à une ère glaciaire. La thèse est solide, et rendue crédible par l'apport scientifique de Gribbin. Un livre bien agréable à lire, même s'il fait froid... dans le dos." La Recherche. "On en rêve de ce livre, pendant qu'on le lit et après. C'est qu'il est réussi, dans un genre qui pouvait paraître usé depuis Jules Verne. C'est bon, parfois, de se faire peur à la veillée." La Presse, Montréal - Jacques Folch-Ribas.

Osborne, Chester Gorham [1915-]. 1951. The First Bow and Arrow. illustrated by Richard Osborne. 88 pp. 24.5 cm, Chicago, New York, Toronto. Wilcox & Follett Co. (2nd, 1952; 3rd printing, 1957)* The Chief was the tallest man in the tribe. He looked down, at Grandpa Ol. "What is all this noise about?" he said. "A bear!" cried Grandpa Ol. "A great Cave Bear as big as two men! He could jump right over the ladder. He could kill us all!" Grandpa Ol was terrified, and so was everyone in Chicka's tribe. They lived long before history began, and their only weapons were rough clubs and spears, and heavy stones. They could never stand against the terrible claws of the fierce Cave Bear. Boys and girls from 7 to 11 will enjoy reading this exciting story about the boy Chicka, and the weapon that he invented to save his people.

_____. 1953. The First Puppy. foreword by Melville J Herskovits, Dept. of Anth., NW University. illustrated by Richard N. Osborne. 128 pp. 24 cm, New York. Wilcox & Follet. (1953: 2nd, 3rd printings)* Great Bear's people are full of fear when his little sister Mea brings home a wolf cub. Everyone knows that wolves are full of magic, and that it is terribly bad luck to injure one. All through the summer the tribe is haunted by the wolf pack. When the hunters set out to find game, they are followed by the pack and barely escape with their lives. And in the meantime, the wolf cub refuses to leave Mea's side. Another exciting easy to read story about the warrior of prehistoric times who was the hero of Chester Osborne's first book. Boys and girls of 7 to 11 will find The First Puppy every bit as thrilling to read as The First Bow And Arrow.

_____. 1956. The First Lake Dwellers. foreword by Melville J Herskovits, Dept. of Anth., NW University. illustrated by Richard N. Osborne. (Ages 9-12). 126 pp. 24.5 cm, New York. Follett Publishing Company.* from the dustjacket: Enemies destroy the lake people's village, steal their stores of grain, and capture Arvi's father, Chief Calling Hawk. Arvi finds a way to build a shelter on his father's fishing raft on the lake. There he and his mother and sister are safe from human enemies and from wild animals too. more...

_____. 1959. The First Wheel. illustrated by Richard N. Osborne. 128 pp. Chicago. Follett Publishing Co. The story of Ashna, a Sumerian boy who thinks of a way to improve log rollers that moved sledges.

_____. 1959. The Wind and the Fire. illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prentice Hall Press. In the wilderness of Ireland, in the days before history, stone-age folk made a discovery that began a new age in the development of civilization. This story of that significant find -- the discovery of bronze -- graphically depicts how it was first made and used by primitive man. Var, a chieftain's son, and his friend, Thoril, are alarmed at the sight of strangers armed with knives longer than any they have ever seen, and hurry to alert their village. When the crannog people learn more of the dangerous "long Knives" and their strange weapons from Elgir, the trader, Cheif Aran agrees to a daring plan to find the secret of the new material for their own uses. How the boys help to bring bronze-making to their people, and to defend newly-found ore deposits from enemy attack, makes a story filled with excitement and suspense.

_____. 1967. The Silver Anchor. illustrated by Brendan Lynch. 160 pp. Chicago. Follett Publishing Company. A boys adventure story taking place in ancient Phoenicia and a sea voyage.

_____. 1984. The Memory String. 154 pp. 21.6 cm, 1st edition, New York. Atheneum. ISBN: 068931020X.* Ronald Himler Game was harder and harder to find. More and more people were moving onto the land that the tribe had always felt was theirs. And they themselves had been guilty of killing more animals than they really needed. So Darath was especially upset when he found that strangers had destroyed his father Catching Spear's trap line. This was the beginning of a long fall and winter for Darath, his sister Kiona, and for the White Trees, the totem group to which they belonged. They lived on the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, some thirty thousand years ago. And it was the adventures of that winter that sent them on an even greater adventure — a trip to a new world. more...

Osborne, Mary Pope. 1996. Sunset of the Sabertooth. illustrated by Sal Murdocca. (Reading level: Ages 4-8). 67 pp. 20 cm, Magic Tree House, #7, New York. Random House. ISBN: 0679863737 (CAN) 0679963731(GLB). The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.

_____. 2003. Le sorcier de la préhistoire. French. translated from the English Sunset of the Sabertooth. 74 pp. Cabane Magique, Bayard Jeunesse. Tom et Léa sont projetés à l'époque glaciaire. Brrr ! Ils se réfugient vite dans une caverne et trouvent de magnifiques peaux de bête. Chaudement vêtus, ils partent en exploration. Mais ils tombent dans un piège... Sont-ils condamnés à mourir de faim ? La fée Morgane est en danger ! Aide Tom et Léa à réunir les trois objets qui la délivreront. En plus, tu apprendras plein de choses sur les hommes de Cro-Magnon.

Pangborn, Edgar [1909-1976]. 1952. The Singing Stick. in: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1952, pp 3-19.* A prehistoric murder mystery, winner of the Special Award of Merit in the EQMM Seventh Annual Contest. Beyond the river was the melancholy green, almost blackness of advancing pine forest. Ambling naked from his cave into afternoon sunshine, Gnar-of-the-Long-Arms, the Old Man, the leader of the tribe, gazed across the valley. Trouble would come; when it came, the pines would know. The pines were kindred to the Not-Men they sheltered — bear, wolf, snake; kin to the black leopard who five winters ago had writhed past Samar's spear when that Old Man's foot had slipped, giving Gnar leadership of the tribe. The pines knew... full text

_____. (1952) 1954. La Baguette chantante. French. translated from the English The Singing Stick. in: Ellery Queen Mystère Magazine, n° 75, April 1954, pp. 49-68. 19 cm. Paris. Opta.

Pape, Lee. 1961. The First Doll in the World. illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. ISBN: B0006AX65K.

Papineau, Lucie. 2000. Gontrand et le croissant des cavernes. French. (Gontrand and the croissants of the caves). illustrated by Alain Reno. ill. en coul. / jeunes de 6 à 9 ans. [30] pp. 27 cm, Saint-Lambert. Dominique & Cie. ISBN: 2-89512-054-4 (br) 2-89512-097-8 (cart). A cette époque préhistorique, l'homme vit dans des cavernes. Le jeune Gontrand dont la mère est chef de la tribu de la Grande Pâtissière, organise un pique-nique. Il est surpris par la nuit en pleine forêt, au royaume des géants de l'Ombre. La Grande Pâtissière troublée en oublie ses croissants. Un tourbillon de fumée sort de son four et un reflet s'en échappe pour briller dans le ciel. Le premier croissant de lune a permis à Gontrand de retrouver les siens. Depuis il brille et les descendants de la Grande Pâtissière en cuisent toujours. English...

Pécheyrand, Roger. 1936. La Femme des cavernes. French. (Cave Woman). in: Roger Pécheyrand. Les Faux Feux-follets [Texte imprimé], nouvelles et contes. (17 août) pp 37-41. portrait hors texte. 9 fr. [7230]. 146 pp. 19 cm. Châlons-sur-Marne, Impr.-édit. Union républicaine de la Marne.

Pef. 1987. Graine-de-Calcaire. French. (Chalk-Dust). broché. Milan (Albums Milan). ISBN: 2867261473. (1993) Chargée de remplir le grottongélateur, Graine-de-Calcaire part en chasse. Elle s'attaque à Trompe-la-Mort, le plus terrible des mammouths. L'animal se joue des pièges, mais Graine-de-Calcaire sort enrichie de l'aventure. Bien que l'humour de Pef ne fasse pas l'unanimité, il n'en est pas moins truculent. Given the task of stocking the cave's freezer, Chalk-Dust takes off on the hunt. She attacks Death-Horn, the most terrifying of the mammoths. The animal ignores her traps, but Chalk-Dust is enriched by the adventure. While Pef's humor may not be universal, it is none-the-less vivid.

Pellos, René. (pseudonym for René Pellarin [1900-1998]). 1976. La Guerre du feu. French. see: J.-H. Rosny 1909. 50 pp. 29 cm, Grenoble. Jacques Glénat.

Pelot, Pierre. 2000. Le jour de l'enfant tueur. French. (The day of the infant killer). 219 pp. Poche, Seuil (Points). ISBN: 2020349086. Le plus sûr, pour ne pas courir le risque de raconter la fin des livres à suspense, est d'en faire le compte rendu avant d'en achever la lecture. Bien sûr, avec un titre de ce calibre, Le Jour de l'enfant tueur, on se doute que ça va mal finir, que des personnages y laisseront leur peau (on craint surtout pour Ahorn), et les lecteurs un peu de sueur et de sommeil. 9a n'a pas loupé, mais nous avons promis de ne rien dire. more...

_____. 2000. L'ombre de la louve. French. (The shadow of the she-wolf). 186 pp. Poche, Seuil (Points). ISBN: 2020349094. Alors qu'il s'apprête à faire halte sous les huttes des Ohioro, Ahorn croise une louve étrange avant d'être le témoin involontaire d'une violente querelle à l'issue de laquelle un homme est grièvement blessé à la tête par une jeune fille. Quelle version voudront croire les Ohioro? Oatti, sous le choc, a perdu la parole, la jeune Nohiqu'anah ment et Ahorn est un étranger dont ils se méfient. Et pour Ahorn, les choses vont se compliquer quand Laha, qui parle au nom du clan, décide de chasser la jeune fille et de retenir Ahorn prisonnier. Alors que la vue des cadavres terrorise les Ohioro, Ahorn, le protégé d'Okough et d'Okgha le Rève, devra pour élucider ces mystères et faire triompher la vérité, rendre la parole à Oatti au cours d'une intervention dont on a peine à croire qu'elle s'est déroulée il y a 35 000 ans. Avant de s'enfoncer à nouveau, justicier solitaire, dans les brumes de la préhistoire. English...

Pelot, Pierre with Yves Coppens. 1997. Le Rêve de Lucy. French. (Lucy's dream). illustrated by Tanino Liberatore. Paris. Le Seuil. ISBN: 2020323370. It was perhaps three million years ago, maybe the world's first love story, when the last Australopithecus passed the baton to the first Men... C'était il y a trois million d'années, peut-être la première histoire d'amour du monde, lorsque les derniers Australopithèques passaient le relais aux premiers Hommes...

_____. 1998. Qui regarde la montagne au loin. French. (Who regards the far-off mountain). Volume I of Sous le vent du monde (In the shelter of the Earth). 352 pp. Paris. Gallimard. ISBN: 207040398X. In eastern Africa, very close to a large rain-filled lake, 1.7 million years before our era, Nî-éi, a young woman "different from other women," meets Moh'hr, "the one who looks at the far-off mountain." Nî-éi, rejected by her clan because she carries the mark of the great sh'oh (the black panther), must leave for unknown lands. Moh'hr has left in search of the grand cloud-hidden mountain. They are, without knowing it, the beginning of man. But if they speak, they are not the same words. If they think of the world, they are not the same images. Until they discover an unknown emotion and a strange sound that beats in their chests. Then they will follow a stretch of the path together, under the rolling wind of the world that carries them along. en français

_____. 1998. Le nom perdu du soleil. French. (The lost name of the sun). Volume II of Sous le vent du monde (In the shelter of the Earth). Paris. Denoel. ISBN: 2207245004. A million years ago, somewhere in the immensity of the mountains of present-day Burma... They were called the Xuahs. Day after day, for so long, the too-cold winds killed many of their children. Then, the memory of the eldest among them spoke: before stopping, the Xuahs were making their way toward the place where every morning a new sun rises. And the Xuahs took up again their interrupted march, in search of the lost name of the sun. They went, from furious rivers in forests of trees never before seen, populated by unknown animals — like the giant, neither man nor beast, that fears not even the great tigers—, until meeting with other men who, even if they didn't know how to keep fire, knew the name of the sun... From their shared adventure, made of mingled terrors and emotions, will be born a strange and new shared feeling: what can probably be called hope. en français

_____. 1999. Debout dans le ventre blanc du silence. French. (Standing in the white belly of silence). Volume III of Sous le vent du monde (In the shelter of the Earth). 352 pp. Paris. Denoel. ISBN: 2207245497. 380,000 years before our era, in lands that will become some thousand of years later the sea of Azov and the Black sea, live the Oourhams, Homo erectus pre-sapiens, who attempt to escape the curse that one of the them has attracted on the clan by killing a boohr (bear). In a dream, Oka'a spoke through the mouth of old Oahki'a. He designated young Boohr'am (whose name means "The one who is with the bear") to help the bear get back what was stolen from him, so that bears wouldn't abandon the Oourhams — bears and Oourhams were similar, spoke the same images, until Oka'a gave fire to the Oourhams. So Boohr'am, the teenager beside the river, left downwind in search of the big bear and the snow of the mountain, going to meet his own history, one of his parent's incestuous loves born from the same belly, and one of the bloodthirsty Ough-uaq, the mad lover of his mother, who, after having killed many Oourhams, murdered his rival and the coveted woman, provoking the curse of Oka'a. en français

_____. 2000. Avant la fin du ciel. French. (Before the end of the sky). Volume IV of Sous le vent du monde (In the shelter of the Earth). see Le Monde review by Jacques Baudou. Paris. Denoel. ISBN: 2207245691. 65 000 years before our era, the Wurehwës, Neanderthals, live in a territory that will much later be called France. The cold descended from the Source of the wind and the Mouth of the sky spreads, and the nourishing herds flee southbound, leaving the men resourceless. Then Eheni (the one who works) decides to accomplish the unimaginable, in order to save his people, to restore their strength of before the cold and illness, by renewing the lost dialogue with animals. He will mate with the edroütohur, the chief doe of the herd, so that from her womb will be born a son both man and deer, who will know how to speak to men and animals, and reconcile them as in the old times. The drama will become knotted around this transgression. Rejected by his own kind, Eheni embarks on a great adventure mingling "those of the forest" and "those of the two rivers in one," to go to the end of his madness... before the end of the sky. en français

_____. 2001. Ceux qui parlent au bord de la pierre. French. (Those who speak at the edge of the rock). Sous le vent du monde Tome 5. 272 pp. Paris. Denoel. ISBN: 2207250563. L'histoire se passe il y a environ 32 000 ans av. J. -C., au paléolithique supérieur, au bord de la mer qui sera la Méditerranée. Là vivent des hommes qui se nomment les Doah. Ce sont des homo sapiens sapiens, plus connus sous le nom d'hommes de Cro-Magnon. Les Doah sont isolés, sur le bord de la grande eau où ils n'ont pas vu d'autres hommes depuis longtemps. Il pleut, il pleut sans cesse. Fleuves et rivières débordent. La mer continue de monter, comme si elle devait un jour tout submerger. Dohuka, le chamane de la tribu, a des doutes. Il se demande s'il a bien su comprendre sa dernière vision où "ceux du dessous" disaient aux Doha de rester sur le rivage. Mais Dohuka n'a jamais voulu quitter la côte : il y attend le retour de son frère Naobah, parti chercher d'autres terres de l'autre côté de la montagne du sud. Aujourd'hui le chamane doit redemander conseil aux "gens du dessous". Et c'est dans une grotte qu'il va trouver la mort, terrassé par une vision insoutenable....

Perkins, Lucy Fitch [1865-1937]. 1916. The Cave Twins. 170 pp. 21.8 cm, Boston & New York. Houghton, Mifflin. ISBN: 0891904670. (1968: New York, Walker) ´* One in a series of stories that introduce a period of history and a geographical location through the adventures of twins. Here, cave twins Firetop and Firefly take us to prehistoric days when man was a hunter and wore the skins of animals. more...

Pesando, F.J.. 1994. Sisters of the Black Moon. 381 pp. 18 cm, pbk, New York. Onyx. ISBN: 0451404408.* California 12,000 years ago. The great glacial wall of ice has melted. Now the way is open for spear-carrying tribes from the north to swarm southward to the abundant coastal land, home to the saber-toothed tiger and bear, the wolf and mastodon, the giant sloth and long-necked camel. It is home as well to the beautiful Tidelander sisters, Morning Land and White Bird.These two have only each other, and their own strength, skill and spirit, to help them survive when their tribe is annihilated by invading warriors. This is their story -- an epic of courage, passion, drama, set in a world both shiningly new and magically old, where together men and women face the challenges of danger, the tumult of desire, the timeless realities of life and love.

Peyramaure, Michel [1922-]. 1963. La Fille des grandes plaines. French. (Daughter of the Great Plains). 381 pp. 20.5 cm, "Bibliothèque pour tous", Paris. Laffont.´ Voici un roman préhistorique. Les progrès de l'archéologie et les récentes découvertes ont donné à l'homme de Lascaux, de Laussel ou des Eyzies une telle présence qu'il fallait bien qu'un jour un romancier lui prêtât vie: c'est Michel Peyramaure qui inaugure, pour l'enchantement des lecteurs de la BIBLIOTHEQUE POUR TOUS, ce genre littéraire nouveau qui pourrait s'appeler « science-fiction de la préhistoire ». more...

_____. 1966. La vallée des mammouths. French. (Valley of the Mammoths). 255 pp. Paris. Laffont. (1988: "edition speciale" Gallimard (Folio junior); ISBN: 2070334953, 281pp) ´ A la lumière des découvertes archéologiques, Peyramaure nous transporte dans la préhistoire alors que semble vouloir s'instaurer un début de fraternité entre les hommes. Une paix naissante met un terme aux affrontements entre la tribu des Hommes Jaunes et celle des Grandes Falaises. In the light of archaeological discoveries, Peyramaure transports us into prehistory at the time of the beginning of brotherhood between men. A newborn peace puts an end to confrontations between the Yellow Man and Big Cliffs tribes...

_____. 1987. La caverne magique: le roman de Lascaux. French. (The Magic Cave: the novel of Lascaux). broché. 276 pp. Paris. France Loisir. ISBN: 2221050282.´ Dans le sillage de Rosny, une évocation de la civilisation d'il y a 20 000 ans. -- Services Documentaires Multimédia In the wake of Rosny, an evocation of the civilization of 20,000 years ago.

Picalausa, Louis C.. 1946. Les Chasseurs de mammouth. French. (The Mammoth Hunters). illustrated by Louis C. Picalausa. 93 pp. 15.5 cm, pbk, Tournai, Belgium. Casterman, "Autour du feu".

Picq, Pascal G.. 2001. Qui a tué l'homme de Néanderthal ? French. (Who killed the Neanderthal?). in: Historia Thématique n° 72 "Spécial Polars" July-August 2001 pp 4-9. 100 pp. "En revenant de la chasse, N. découvre les siens assassinés. Sa femme a reçu un croc dans le ventre et son fils un coup violent sur le crâne. L'animal qui tue ainsi, il le sait, c'est l'homme. Mais quel homme ? Il ne connaît pas d'hommes à crocs..."

Pierce, Meredith Ann [1958-]. 1985 (2000). The Woman Who Loved Reindeer. 242 pp. 22 cm, 1st ed., Boston. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN: 0152017992 (0871130424). (and TOR pbk, 1989, ISBN: 0812503058; 2000: Magic Carpet Books, pbk, 242pp)* When her sister-in-law brings her a strange golden baby to care for, a young girl, living in the cold lands far to the north, is unaware that this unusual child will help her fulfill her destiny as leader of her people. In a wintery land where two moons shine, a young girl named Caribou falls in love with a man who isn't a man at all... more...

Piquemal, Michel. 2001. Le sandwich de mammouth. French. (The Mammoth Sandwich). illustrated by Lionel Le Neouanic. 24 pp. (Milan Poche Benjamin), Milan. ISBN: 2745903365. Ran en a assez. On se moque toujours de lui parce qu'il est trop petit. Trop petit, trop jeune, trop... ASSEZ ! C'est décidé : il va montrer à toute la tribu ce dont il est capable : pourquoi pas tuer un mammouth, tout seul, comme un grand ? À force de ruse... et un peu aidé par la chance, Ran parvient bel et bien à tuer son mammouth et à régaler toute la tribu.

Plant, Don. 1971. Amasa Amuzar Bemechonat Azman. Hebrew. (The Strange Journey in the Time Machine). Tel Aviv. A boy travels in time to various prehistoric periods and witnesses the gradual development of human races.

Popescu, Petru [1944-]. 1996. Almost Adam: a novel. (Kenya). xvi, 544 pp. 25 cm, New York. William Morrow. ISBN: 0380728249 (0688148638).* In an unexplored Kenyan savanna, a paleoanthropologist finds a boy whose physical characteristics match those of the "missing link" and realizes that he's discovered a place that has escaped the normal evolutionary processes. Soon the modern world threatens to encroach on his bond with the boy as a poacher tracks them down and another anthropologist threatens to steal the discovery. Their only hope is to disappear into the forest with the boy's tribe. (Amazon)

_____. (1996) 1997. Primitif. French. translated from the English Almost Adam. broché. 663 pp. Lattès. ISBN: 2709617765. Dans le sillage de Conan Doyle (Le monde perdu). Sans les dinosaures mais avec des hominidés dont on retrouve trace en Afrique dans un lieu conservé à l'abri depuis 10.000 ans (?).Ken Lauder est un jeune paléontologue de 28 ans qui vient de faire une découverte qui peut changer sa vie. Au coeur de l'Afrique, il a trouvé le fossile d'un australopithèque. De plus il est arrivé face à face avec un hominidé... Il est persuadé d'avoir rêvé tout éveillé. C'est impossible, la race n'existe plus!!! Et si la race n'était pas toute éteinte...? C'est au centre même de l'Afrique que Ken Lauder vivra une aventure extraordinaire. Mais, à peine les découvertes connues dans le monde scientifique, les menaces débutent. Des chercheurs ambitieux et méchants veulent s'approprier les mérites des découvertes. Rien ne les arrête, ils vont jusqu'au meurtre! Loin de tout ce branle-bas de combat, Ken nouera une amitié avec son nouvel ami, Longs-Pieds. Une amitié qui changera le cours de leur existence à chacun...

Potter, Eugene. 1978. The Children of Cain. in: Galileo, #10, 1978, pp 30-31, 37-40.* Jane Benamou pushed the high-powered rifle up on her shoulder so it didn't jab her back. The weapon was a nuisance, but she could not visualize going anywhere without it in the Lower Pleistocene African savanna (with who knows what kind of predators about). She spoke into the microphone of her notetaker. "Day 150. Lower Pleistocene Expedition One, Southeastern Research Synod. 0900 Hours: The troop is watering at the lake. Their 'guardian' stands away at a distance of about fifteen meters..."

Pouf. 1933. Iroh l'enfant des cavernes. French. (Iroh the Cave Boy). in: Guignol, 2nd series n° 233, March 19, 1933. 52 (Iroh section only, 4) pp. weekly, 1, rue Gazan, Paris XIV. It happened perhaps twenty or thirty thousand years ago, in that imprecise time that we only know by some fossilized remnants. For some days, the sun, terror of the human beings (because one was always afraid that it might fall to earth at that time), wandered, reddish and without rays, in a sky filled with red steam, which probably came from the fury of innumerable volcanoes... text of the page

Prentiss, Charlotte. 1993. Children of the Ice. 494 pp. 18 cm, New York. Onyx Books. ISBN: 0451177924 (pbk.).* It is 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, when young Laena and her sister survive a tragedy that leaves their parents dead and marks their lives forever. In a world where mammoths roam, where nature's most fearful forces rage, and where fellow humans can pose a deadly threat, Laena relies on her incredible courage, strength, and intelligence to endure. This is Laena's story... the story of her seer-like visions of a world beyond that shapes her into a tribal leader in a society of arrogant men... the story of Laena's triumph as the Chosen One, only to be cast out into the wilderness with her husband and child. Laena and her family embark on a great journey that takes them from the vast Siberian tundra and the frezing darkness of the prehistoric past to the fiery dawn of breathtaking discovery -- a new world, a new age, and a new dream of happiness...

_____. 1995. People of the Mesa. bibliography p. 413-16. 416 pp. 18 cm, New York. Onyx Books. ISBN: 0451178505.* The last Ice Age had ended. The glaciers had retreated, and the Great Plains teemed anew with wildlife. Marauding tribes of human hunters lived and killed little better than beasts. One tribe that believed in peace, justice, and love gave males and females equal footing. But now they were threatened with destruction by hostile nature and vicious enemies. This is the epic story of that tribe and of Mara, the defiant descendant of a proud line of leaders, who would let no man break her spirit, despite the frailty of her flesh... and no foe destroy her people, despite all their treachery and terror.

_____. 1995. Children of the Sun. 413 pp. 18 cm, New York. Onyx Books. ISBN: 0451178513 (pbk.).* In the American southwest, ten thousand years after the last Ice Age swept the earth, a peaceful tribe of cave dwellers hunt and till the land. Beautiful, sensuous Nisha, known as the defiant one, dares to choose her own mate despite the tribe's disapproval. And together, the fierce passion between these two gives life to an infant son, destined to become the Great Hunter. But one night, under a sky filled with ominous stars, Nisha's world is viciously destroyed by a pillaging, raping tribe of nomads. Watching in helpless horror as her husband and son are murdered, Nisha vows revenge. With relentless wit and wile, she plays her captors against each other, titillating them with a new kind of lovemaking, outsmarting and taming their brutishness. And with the triumphant courage of a resolute risk taker, Nisha escapes into a new life, filled with new adventure, passion -- and love.

_____. 1997. The Island Tribe. 355 pp. 18 cm, New York. HarperPrism. ISBN: 006101012X.* Set in the Pacific Northwest 12,000 years ago... Kori lives in a world of constant danger. Monstrous beasts devour brave hunters; earthquakes shake the homes of her tribe; and far to the west, Mount Tomomour belches fire into the sky. She is the chieftain's daughter, privileged yet shunned by the rest of her tribe because of her independent, willful nature. Her people live in fear of the Earth Spirits that rule the land with casual cruelty, but Kori refuses to recognize their power. She rebels — and is cast out, forced to fend for herself in the forest on the western shore.But even as she finds fulfillment there in the arms of a brave warrior, Kori discovers the startling truth about her world. She is determined to enlighten her people, but first she must confront a looming catastrophe that threatens to eradicate all life in the place she has come to love.

_____. 1999. The Ocean Tribe. 378 pp. 18 cm, pbk, New York. HarperPaperbacks. ISBN: 0061010111.* Hers was an ancient land of beauty and bloodshed... Turning away from warfare and superstition, Kori and her husband, Uroh, left their people to found the Ocean Tribe, a group of peace-loving wanderers turned fishermen and hunters. Led by a strong and beautiful female warrior, protected by the mysterious sea, they had no enemies. Or so Kori thought. Yet a bitter foe lies deep within the tribe itself, poised to strike. The tribe's peaceful existence begins to crumble when a stranger named Werror appears, seeking refuge after ruthless fighters decimate his village. Skilled and clever, this powerful man both captivates and disturbs Kori. Little does she know that he is about to lead her into the ultimate betrayal...and a battle for survival that will shatter everything she believes about herself and her world.

Pringle, David. 1999. Introduction to Rider Haggard's "Allan and the Ice Gods". in: H. Rider Haggard: Allan and the Ice Gods. text. 296 pp. 20 cm. pbk, UK. Pulp Fictions.

Proumen, Henri-Jacques [1879-1962]. 1934. Ève, proie des hommes, roman de la femme préhistorique. French. (Eve, prey of man; a novel of prehistoric woman). 235 pp. Brussels & Paris. Labor.´ L'histoire de Méou, et son émancipation progressive. L'héroïne qu'on découvre d'abord dans sa prime jeunesse est, comme sa mère, totalement asservie aux désirs des mâles. Enlevée par une tribu rivale plus évoluée que la sienne, elle découvrira une autre conception des relations entre les sexes grâce à Hruann, son époux. The story of Méou, and her progressive emancipation. The heroine, first encountered in the prime of her youth is, like her mother, completely enslaved to the desires of males. Taken by a rival tribe more evolved than her own, she discovers another conception of relations between the sexes, thanks to Hruann, her spouse. more...

_____. 1942. Aubes cruelles, poèmes sur les temps préhistoriques. French. (Cruel Dawns: poems on prehistoric times). narrative poetry. 75 pp. Brussels. La Renaissance du Livre.´

Pryor, Bonnie. 1988. Seth of the Lion People. illustrated by Beth Peck. 117 pp. New York. Morrow. ISBN: 0606067256 (0688073271).* When Magli, Teller-of-Stories, was leader of the Lion People, he made certain that the cave dwellers never forgot their beginnings or the wisdom that helped them survive. For a time it seemed that Seth, crippled from childhood, would follow in his father's footsteps. Suddenly Magli is leader no more and Seth faces a barrage of taunts — "old one leg" — led by the new leader's cruel son. Seth fears that even if, as his dying father intends, he should succeed Magli as Teller-of-Stories, he'll have little value in a clan that now measures a man's worth by his hunting and fighting skills. Perhaps he'd fare better beyond the mountains that had always rimmed the Lion People's world... more...

Pujade-Renaud, Claude & Daniel Zimmermann. 1989. Le maître du feu. French. (The master of fire). broché. 77 pp. Messidor Scandéditions (Les Aventuriers de l'histoire). ISBN: 2209062063. Grâce à l'invention de M. Meyer, Robin et Lucie traversent le temps pour se retrouver au coeur de la préhistoire. Thanks to M. Meyer's invention, Robin and Lucy cross time to find themselves in the heart of prehistory.

Pumphrey, S.L.. 1890. A Little Brown Pebble. Frontis., 9 b/w full page illus. Decorated eps. Text on each page printed within a decorated border. viii, [1]-128 pp. 22x18 cm, London. W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall S.W. (1899, 1902)* The story of a pebble from the beginnings of the Earth to the present day. Written for children "to draw their attention to the fairy tales of Science." Chapter I. Which shows how the Pebble came by an Interpreter, the Children came by a wonderful Story, and the poor old Uncle came by all this Work Chapter II. Which shows how the Brown Pebble became a Brown Pebble. Chapter III. Which shows that Strange Creatures lived in the Ancient Seas Chapter IV. Which shows that there were beautiful Forests long ago Chapter V. Which shows that Monsters inhabited Land and Sea Chapter VI. Which shows that once upon a time England was very hot Chapter VII. Which shows that afterwards England was very cold Chapter VIII. Which shows that the Earth was given to the Sons of Men

Raiker, Alice. 1907. The Tootle Bird and the Brontos. illustrated by Lawson Wood. 12 full page illustrations, 6 in color. Buffalo, NY. Berger Publishing. Humorous "epic" poem about a prehistoric cave family. Click here for samples.

Raine, William MacLeod. 1907. The Cave Boy. in: Cosmopolitan Magazine 43.3 (July 1907): 327-29.

Ratnett, Mike and June Goulding. 1989. Togg and Leftover. 32 pp. 22.5 x 22 cm, London. William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. ISBN: 0006640052 (000191135x). (Harper Collins, NY 1993)

_____. 1993. Togg and Leftover in Trouble. 30 pp. pbk, Toronto. HarperCollins Canada. ISBN: 0006642969. Togg is a caveman, Leftover his pet dinosaur...

Reboul, Antoine. 1992. Le Livre de Napur. French. (Napur's Book). ill. en n. et b. 155 pp. Biblioteque Magnard. ISBN: 2-210-98835-7. A l'époque de la préhistoire, Napur, 14 ans, assiste au massacre de sa tribu. Traumatisé, l'adolescent se réfugie sur une île où il organise son campement. Mais la solitude se fait pesante et Napur part à la recherche de ses semblables... In prehistoric times, Napur, 14, witnesses the massacre of his tribe. Traumatized, the teenager takes refuge on an island where he organizes his camp. But the solitude weighs heavy, and Napur leaves in search of companions...

Renard, Maurice [1875-1939]. 1913. Le Brouillard du 26 octobre. French. (The fog of October 26). in: Monsieur d'Outremort et autres histoires singulières, Louis Michaud, Paris, pbk, 281 pp., 19 cm. (in: Suite Fantastique (M. D'Outremort) G. Crès, Paris, pbk, 279 pp., 18.5 cm, 1921) «Le Brouillard du 26 octobre», nouvelle publiée en 1913 dans Monsieur d'Outremort et autres histoires singulières, donne la parole à un botaniste, Chanteraine. Celui-ci, lors d'une promenade dans la campagne champenoise en compagnie d'un géologue, Fleury-Moor, se trouve enveloppé dans un curieux brouillard. Et voilà les deux hommes soudain transportés en pleine préhistoire... more...

Ressler, Robert K.. 1984. Cave Girl Clair. combination children's book and video game, for girls ages 7-12. With video disk for the Commodore 64 Computer in a back cover pocket. Reading, Massachusetts. Addison - Wesley Publishing Company. distributed by Rhiannon Software. ISBN: 0-201-12613-3. Resourceful and hardy, Clair must meet the challenges of the New Stone Age. When her people migrate to their summer cave, Clair and her pet rabbit are mistakenly left far behind. But she is a spunky girl and knows they will return one day. She needs help from you. Can Clair survive until her people return?

Revel, Jean. 1904. Un jour lointain. French. (A Day Long Ago). in: Jean Revel: Les Hôtes de l'estuaire. pp 1-22. in-12. 374 pp. Paris. Bibliothèque Charpentier / Eugène Fasquelle.

Reynaud, Florence. 2000. Le premier dessin du monde. French. (The World's First Picture). 192 pp. 16 cm, "Livre du poche jeunesse", Hachette Jeunesse. ISBN: 2013217773. Il y a environ 30 000 ans, aux temps anciens de la Phéhistoire, un enfant, Killik, découvre la magie du dessin. Sous ses doigts, dans le sable, un bison prend naissance, puis un autre. L'enfant comprend que se doigts peuvent faire revivre les bisons qui passent. Mais pour le clan, le don de Killik est dangereux. L'enfant est un être magique, une menace pour les siens...

Rhys, Leona Benkt. 2000. Primal Skin. 256 pp. pbk, Virgin Publishing; Black Lace Erotica. ISBN: 0352335009.* Skin is a beautiful apprentice female shaman and sleuth seeking to solve a prehistoric murder. She is also a bisexual Neanderthal hybrid who is searching for answers in a world of glaciers, sabre-toothed tigers and magic ritual. Set in the mysterious northern and central Europe of the last Ice Age, Primal Skin is the story of a quest for the spiritual and sexual enlightenment at the beginnings of human history. more...

Ribeiro, Stella Carr. 1987 (1975). Sambaqui: A Novel of Pre-History. translated from the Portuguese O Homen Do Sambaqui: Una Estoria Na Pre-Historia by Claudia Van der Heuvel. 132 pp. Avon/Bard. ISBN: 0-380-89624-9. (original edition: Edicoes Quiron)* THE MYSTERY OF THE SHELL PEOPLE The women of the Sambaqui, the Shell People, are delicate and lovely. The men, rigid in belief and unyielding. Their culture is cannibalistic, exotic and macabre. Here the intelligent, handsome Karincai chooses the beautiful Malaí for his bride-and dares the gods with his rebellion. As history moves his people toward undreamed-of horror, Karincai alone may make the life-and-death difference for his tribe. But for Malaí, the future holds a different destiny... her world terribly and irrevocably changed as the Shell People face a final confrontation for survival. A moving, chilling account of genocide that touches the heart of humanity's darker instincts, Sambaqui is real – a society that vanished but never died, its heritage and tragedy our own.

Richardson, Faith. 2003. The Peacock's Stone. 196 pp. Fox Song Books. ISBN: 0974498904. The Peacock's Stone is a mythic fantasy-adventure set on ancient Earth. Shahumin, a precocious eleven-summer child is invited into her grandfather's fire circle of wisdom where she learns the old stories that have shaped the culture and beliefs of her people. Encountering a strange, pale youth along the river bank, Shahumin unwittingly steps into a new story, a story of power that challenges the wisdom of her people and threatens to shatter her world.

Riek, Gustav [1900-]. 1943. Die Mammutjäger vom Lonetal. German. (Mammoth Hunters of Lonetal). 104 pp. 20 cm, Stuttgart. K. Thienemann.

Rienow, Leona Train. 1948. The Bewitched Caverns. illustrated by Allen Pope. 151 pp. 21 cm, New York. Charles Scribners Sons. (and: Junior Literary Guild)* Pigeon and Olo, Cro-Magnon children, do not tell the adults what they have found deep in the cave: warm ashes and a strangely shaped flint point, evidence of the half-human creatures...

Robbins, Judith Redman. 1996. Coyote Woman. (Pueblo Indians). 415 pp. 18 cm, 1st edition, New York. Onyx. ISBN: 0451406834 (pbk.).* She was a girl becoming a woman in the Anazasi tribe in the prehistoric Southwest. Though custom decreed she should marry, she was marked for a different fate by the secret of her birth and the magic of her powers. Her name was Shawanadese, but she was given the sacred name of Coyote Woman as she was initiated into the innermost mysteries of the spirit and the ultimate ecstacies of the flesh by the high priest, who saw her as a holy vessel but could not resist her shining beauty. Drawn to her, too, was the handsome young warrior who would have been the perfect match for any ordinary woman; and the godlike Mayan prince who tempted her with power none of her tribe had ever known; and the lustful renegade who could bring doom upon the Anasazi. In this world of desire and decision, Shawanadese had to see all and dare all in an epic struggle of survival against the evil of men and the harshness of nature in the great canyon called Chaco.

_____. 1998. Sun Priestess. 416 pp. pbk, New York. Onyx Books. ISBN: 0451407873.* They called her Coyote Woman, child of mystery, woman of vision. Blessed with breathtaking beauty and an ancient gift of prophecy, she was ordained by fate to be emissary of the Anasazi tribe. Journeying across a stark, forbidding land, she entered a world of sacrifice and savagery — only to succumb to the seductive powers of a majestic Mayan-Toltec Eagle warrior. But the path of her true destiny would lead Coyote Woman back home — and to her sacred calling as the Sun Priestess, healer, dream-weaver, and spirit-guide to her people. Yet in a time when fire rained from the sky, the Anasazi faced a perilous future... as two proud and powerful men, warrior and priest, battled for the heart of one remarkable woman.

_____. 2000. Moon Fire. (Pueblo Indians). 384 pp. 18 cm, 1st edition, New York. Signet. ISBN: 0451201922 (pbk.). Moon Fire is a vibrant, tapestried tale of love and betrayal and heroism among the Ancient ones of Chaco Canyon. Its prose is delicate, spare and stately, conveying both passion and restraint in a wealth of cultural detail. Moon Fire is a gifted student of the Sun Priests who develops her special ability to communicate with animals to help her people. Moon Fire threads a precarious existence in the time of the Great Drought when the peoples of Chaco Canyon gradually left their stone dwellings to seek better sustenance (presumably). Moon Fire's family suffers hunger, thirst and fear of betrayal and falseness on many levels. The bravery of Moon Fire, her brothers, and her lover and life mate, the Sun Priest flutist WenaAhote, are fully challenged and displayed. In this tale of multiple counter-betrayals contrasted with the steady vision of truth, the culture of the ancient Anasazi comes again to life. A reverent, disciplined tone pervades and reanimates this tale of ancient mystery. --Nancy Lorraine