Jean M Auel in Conversation
Exclusive evening event in the Flett Theatre
Jean M Auel in Conversation
The author talks about her bestselling Earth's Children® series
With Professor Chris Stringer
Monday 28 February 2011, Flett Theatre
Tickets £10.00
19.30 - 20.30, followed by signing session
The Museum is delighted to welcome Jean M Auel at our exclusive event on 28 February to talk about her Earth’s Children® series with Museum palaeoanthropologist, Professor Chris Stringer.
The event marks the imminent publication of The Land of Painted Caves, the 6th and final book in the Earth’s Children® series.
Doors open 18.45. Admittance to the Flett Theatre is from 19.15.
Please arrive at the Exhibition Road entrance to the Museum.
To book tickets by telephone, call +44 (0)20 7942 5725 / 5555.
At the event, Jean M Auel will discuss her Earth's Children® books set in the Ice Age, with our celebrated human origins expert, Professor Chris Stringer.
Event highlights
- Hear about the background to writing the books from the author and our human origins expert.
- Professor Chris Stringer will reveal a resin cast of a human skull-cup.
- Ask your own questions after the conversation.
- Get the chance to order the new book in hardback.
- Get the author to sign a special commemorative bookplate to go inside the new book.
The Land of Painted Caves is released worldwide on 29 March. The 5 other books in the series will also be on sale at the event. Please note, Jean Auel will only be able to sign books bought on the evening.
The human skull-cup replica that will be revealed by Chris Stringer at the event is about 14,700 years old. It is one of the earliest known skull-cups in the world, and the first evidence for their manufacture in the UK, as revealed in new research this week. It shows the cut marks and dents that revealed how it was made. The replica skull-cup goes on public display in the Museum from 1 March.
About the author
Jean M Auel was married at 18 and by 25 had 5 children. In 1964, at the age of 28, she started a night course at college whilst working full-time at an electronics firm. In l977, she had an idea for a short story about a young woman who lived during the Ice Age. A love of reading, an insatiable curiosity and a penchant for research led to hours with books from the library. This resulted in a long first draft that became, instead, an outline for a 6-book series. The Land of Painted Caves is the 6th, and last in that series. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
About Chris Stringer
Palaeoanthropologist Chris Stringer directs the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Project, a collaboration involving archaeologists, palaeontologists and earth scientists from a number of different institutes. AHOB addresses questions like the timing and nature of the earliest human occupation of Britain.
