The Last Neanderthal Clan: Raka of the Last Neanderthal Clan - Paperback

by Pierpaolo Ricci (Translator), Charlie Boring (Author)

For millennia, the Neanderthals dominated northern Europe's landscape, hunting, gathering and breeding. However, the arrival of the Cro-Magnon tribes presented the Neanderthals with a new and more powerful opponent - and their very survival was in jeopardy. The struggle for survival is reimagined in the fast-paced and fascinating historical novel The Last Neanderthal Clan.

Charlie Boring and his extensive knowledge and passion for prehistoric civilization will transport readers back to the cold climate of the Pleistocene period to witness the struggle for survival of the Last Neanderthal Clan.

The Neanderthals were an ancient human subspecies that lived in Eurasia and were thought to become extinct 40,000 years ago. While the exact cause of their demise is still debated, demographic factors, such as small population size, inbreeding and random mutations contributed to their extinction.

During this period the globe began to warm and glaciers began to melt after a long era of extreme cold tens of thousands of years ago. Rivers flood and mountain valleys are free from ice and Clans could travel to previously unknown locations. These two groups, Cro-Magnon, also known as northern clans, and Neanderthal, also known as southern clans, meet throughout the exploration. With a lengthy history of hunting and destroying other clans, the Nord Clan, a Cro-Magnon clan, is the most powerful clan. Carni, the Nord Clan's head, impregnates a female Neanderthal and abandons the mother and child. Carni leads the Nord Clan on a slave hunt for Neanderthals in the warmer southern lands. Raka, a Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon descendant, rises to lead the remnants of his Neanderthal tribe on a search for fresh hunting grounds and safety from the northern clans. Raka and his Clan must fight the cave bear, the woolly mammoth, the cave lion and the changing environment to ensure their survival.