Also by Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews, The Complete World of Human Evolution.* The style of writing looks nice -

"It had been a long, dry summer and the huge river had shrunk to a single deep channel, its many meanders now forming isolated water holes and reed beds. The land around the river estuary sloped gently down to a coast that curved eastwards in a sweeping bay for a hundred miles, the sun shimmering brightly on the calm sea. A solitary man... watched the grassy bank below, where his women and children were hacking with small stone tools at the carcass of a baby hippo..."

* ISBN: 0 500 05132 1 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/publishing/det_humevol.html