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* [[Death By Childbirth]]: To {{spoiler|Jetamio, Thonolan's wife}}.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Attaroa, a villain from the fourth book, who was apparently married to a half-Clan husband. He treated her with about the same level of respect Broud treated Ayla, and Attaroa liked it about as much. She became a violently misandric nutjob thereafter, locking all her camp's men in a pen and working them to death.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Ayla gets a pet named Wolf. Guess what kind of animal he is.
* [[Doorstopper]]: 6 books, each ranging from ~500 to ~860 pages.
* [[Dramatis Personae]]
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* [[Genre Busting]]: Romance x Historical Fiction x Historical Fantasy x Travelogue x Ecology Essay
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Not to mention [[Erotic Literature|excruciatingly detailed sex]].
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* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Rydag, a half-Clan/half-Other boy who is adopted by Nezzie, the mate of the headman of the Mamutoi's Lion Camp. He's even sickly (a weak heart), but after Ayla teaches him the Clan's sign language, the rest of Lion Camp learn it to varying degrees so that they can communicate with him. When {{spoiler|he dies of heart failure}} toward the end of ''The Mammoth Hunters'', most of the Lion Camp are {{spoiler|devastated (and even some readers get a little teary-eyed.)}}
* [[History Marches On]]:
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* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: Rydag, the half-Clan Mamutoi kid from ''The Mammoth Hunters''.
* [[Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places]]: Jondalar, before he meets Ayla.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: In the third book, it starts as a [[Love Triangle]] between Ranec, Ayla and Jondalar (who are the [[Official Couple]], so you can guess how it turns out) and then the another Mamutoi character, Vincavec, makes a bid for Ayla's attentions, but nobody [[Small Name, Big Ego|except him]] ever thinks he's a real contender. Ranec also has his ex-girlfriend Tricie who still carries a torch for him, and Jondalar has his (not present) ex-girlfriends Zolena/Zelandoni, Marona, and Serenio. It continues in the sixth book: {{spoiler|Jondalar's cheating with Marona.}}
* [[Marital Rape License]]: When men of the Clan make "the Signal," women are expected to drop everything and present for a sexual encounter. The Signal is generally done only with one's mate, but it can be given to any female if [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|the male's need is that pressing]]. Broud does it to Ayla only to [[Walkyverse|pound her viciously]] (he's a [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|sadistic bully]]), and Ayla is shocked to learn later that other women ''like'' sex and are not above flirting with their men. Even Clan women employ certain seductive postures and motions to give men ideas.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: The series seems to be iffy as to whether the rituals of the mog-ur (Clan shamans) and the zelandonii (Other shamans) are genuine mystic journeys and psychic abilities, or just the result of good drugs.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** Thonolan's eventual wife is named Jetamio, which resembles the French "''je t'aime''," "I love you." Arguably, also serves as [[Foreshadowing]]. ([[Fridge Logic|It makes a certain sort of sense because]], according to the map of Europe in the books, Jetamio lived and died in Romania, but her husband and his brother are from what is now France.)
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* [[Moral Guardians]]: Not ''in'' the work, but rather about it, particularly due to its unabashed (if sometimes florid) sexuality, including Ayla being raped by Broud. Has been frequently banned for this reason.
* [[Morning Sickness]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Judging by Ayla's vision of the Mother {{spoiler|being forsaken for the Son}} and a number of Zelandonii men's reactions to her new verse in ''The Land of Painted Caves'', our heroine may have established the basis for future {{spoiler|patriarchies}}. She's almost certainly bringing an end to {{spoiler|[[Eternal Sexual Freedom]]}} amongst the Zelandonii, and later, other groups, with her concept of fatherhood. Those Who Worship the Great Earth Mother will probably not be best pleased.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Played straight in the Clan since Ayla is extremely tall and hideously misshapen to their eyes, and then averted by Jondalar and most of the Others, who have no problems with Ayla's self-sufficiency. Stands to reason, too: if you live in communities of 50-100 people or so, you'd be suicidal to turn down able-bodied workers just because they happen to have tits.
* [[No Periods Period]]: Averted.
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* [[Wandering Minstrel]]
* [[Wanton Cruelty to The Common Comma]]: ''The Shelters of Stone'' is so filled with comma splices (where a comma is used where a period, semicolon or dash would be more appropriate) that it makes one wonder if the book had any editors.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[When She Smiles]]: Jetamio.
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: The death curse, the ultimate punishment among the Clan. Those so cursed ''believe'' they are dead (as does everyone else), and generally just lie down and die. If they didn't pine to death the co-dependent gender-based memories will get them. E.g. Men can hunt but don't know how to butcher and preserve their kills, and literally can't learn to gather edible plants or cook. Women could gather vegetation but their only defense is running with zero tracking skills to avoid danger, and they're totally unable to learn to hunt. <ref>[[Truth in Television]]: A number of real cultures have death curses, wherein the entire tribe treats a member as dead, and eventually they give up and die. Anthropologists call this "voodoo death." Similarly, the kurdaitcha or bone-pointing curse found in some Aboriginal Australian groups is thought to cause death because the people cursed by it believe it will kill them, and then waste away slowly due to the nocebo effect.</ref>
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