The Clan of the Cave Bear is a hardcover book written by Jean M. Auel and published by Crown Publishing Group in New York, USA in 1980. It is a first edition and part of the Earth's Children series. The book is an ice age adventure fiction that tells the story of a young girl named Ayla who is raised by a clan of Neanderthals. The book has a dust jacket and is considered a vintage item. It weighs 30.5 oz and has 480 pages.