Making Silent Stones Speak Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology Book

It began well enough for a couple of chapters that set both the prehistoric background and some methodology. I began to be worried by chapters starts that were pure fiction in a 'Clan of the Cave Bear' style - like wtf is this doing in an academic text? The book then degenerated rapidly into a series of lists of tools, sites, archaeologists but with little attempt to explore or construct a scholarly discussion. The final chapters run rapidly in a desperate attempt pt to 'finish' and include an irrelevant speculation on future technologies, extra terrestrial life in the universe etc.
Such a bad book.