I don’t know about you, but frankly that goofy little re-enactment showing the drama between the lonely Neanderthal dude (who was honestly ENTHRALLED at how sophisticated the Homo Sapiens were) was far more touching to me than 2+ hours/300+ pages of Clan of the cave bear 
The Homo Sapien women were pretty cute (go figure! ) save for the insanely nappy hair they all had.
Also, was I the only one who was reminded of the story of ‘Hamlet’ when they were talking about “The Chief died under suspicious circumstances. So-and-so took over. The son did nothing. The son was pissed, but he couldn’t do anything about it. Then they all died anyway”