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Charlie Boring shared a lifelong interest in prehistoric civilizations with his late daughter, Lisa. Lisa grew up listening to Charlie’s tales about cave-dwelling clans, and the characters in those stories have been developed and expanded in The Last Neanderthal Clan. Charlie has drawn upon a lifetime of study of anthropology to make the book as realistic as possible. Charlie lives in Virginia; but has traveled extensively in Europe, where he has set his novel. He hopes that you enjoy reading the novel as much as he enjoyed writing it.

For centuries the robust Neanderthals dominated the northern European landscape, hunting, gathering and multiplying. With the arrival of the Cro-Magnon clans, the Neanderthal faced a new and more dangerous enemy that could threaten their very existence. Their plight is told in dramatic fashion in the historical fiction, The Last Neanderthal Clan.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the earth is warming after a prolonged deep freeze and glaciers are melting. Rivers are flooded and mountain valleys are no longer filled with ice, allowing clans to travel to regions previously unexplored. These widely dispersed clans – Cro-Magnon, called northern clans, and Neanderthal, called southern clans – encounter each other in the exploration.

The most dominate among them, the Cro-Magnon clan called the Nord Clan, have developed traditions that encourage hunting and killing. Some clans resort to cannibalization. After Nord Clan leader, Carni, fathers a child with a Neanderthal woman and leaves the woman and child with her Neanderthal Clan, he leads his clan in search of Neanderthals in the quest to take slaves and hunt the warmer southern regions.

Later, it falls upon that Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon child, Raka, to lead what remains of his clan on a quest for new hunting grounds and safety from the northern clans. Along the way, they must contend with the perils of the cave bear, the wooly mammoth, the cave lion and the threatening climate to ensure their survival.

“The Last Neanderthal Clan, relaunched by Charlie Boring, Takes Readers Back To the late Pleistocene Era When Cave-Dwelling Clans Compete for Survival

Around 40,000 years ago, the Neanderthal species is thought to have gone extinct. Neanderthals roamed Europe and Asia for centuries and lived in small family groups called clans. Demographic reasons, such as tiny population size, inbreeding and random variations are considered potential causes in their demise—although the cause of their extinction remains seriously debated.
Charlie Boring and his comprehensive knowledge and interest in prehistoric civilization will take the readers on a journey to the cold and harsh environment during the Pleistocene epoch to witness the final struggle for survival of “The Last Neanderthal Clan.”
The robust Neanderthals ruled the terrain of northern Europe for millennia, hunting, gathering and reproducing. Upon the advent of the Cro-Magnon tribes, the Neanderthals were confronted with a new and more formidable foe, that would threaten their very survival. In the historical fiction, “The Last Neanderthal Clan,” their struggle is told in a dramatic manner.”