The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M Auel Introduction: Ayla is back in the third book of the children of the earth. Ayla, who met Jondalar in the last book, agreed to accompany him to his home in Zelandoni. They are shouting and running in motion when they see a couple of men looking at them. After an unusual encounter, these strangers known as the mammoth hunters arrive with them. Ayla soon feels at home there. He discovers that a boy, named Rydag, looks a lot like his son who he left behind with the clan. The people of the mammoth hunters are very friendly and understanding of the place where she grew up. He soon makes friends. Jondalar, the man she loves, is very jealous. There is an interesting man, named Ranec, who seems to be able to take Ayla into his bed after a ceremony. Jondalar is devastated and believes Ayla chose Ranac. Ayla on the other hand thinks that Jondalar no longer loves her. This goes so far that Ayla almost bonds with Ranec. Thank God in the finale Jondalar and Ayla find each other again and leave the mammoth hunters. Another adventure begins.Biography:Jean Marie Untinen was born on February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the second of five children. His father was a house painter. After high school she married Ray Bernard Auel and raised five children. In 1964 she became a member of Mensa. He earned his master's degree in 1976, attending night school while working for a Portland electronics company. At that time he left his job to find a "more suitable job". Three months later she still hadn't found a new job that suited her. Around that time she came up with the idea for a story about a prehistoric girl. According to Jean, "The 'short story' led me to do some research; the research sparked my imagination and the wealth of material made me decide to write a novel. The first draft turned out to contain more than 450,000 words and is dropped in It's six parts. While rewriting, I realized that each of these six parts was a stand-alone novel. I used that draft as an outline for the series." Jean's extensive research has taken her to prehistoric sites in France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine, the Soviet Union, Hungary and Germany (followed by a portion of the Danube for the fourth novel).