The Lower Palaeolithic of the Maghreb: Excavations and Analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria by M. Sahnouni

“North Africa, and the Maghreb are critical areas for the study of the initial spread of extinct hominins from the sub-Saharan region into Eurasia during the Lower and Middle Pleistocene. . . . So I came to this volume hoping it would give me insights into how the North African database could contribute to these research agendas; in other words hoping the book would do exactly what it claimed on the cover — discuss the Lower Palaeolithic of the Maghreb. Unfortunately I was disappointed. The volume as a whole is little more than an interim site report for as yet incomplete excavations at Ain Hanech, Algeria, and as such does not really ‘do what it says on the label’. . . .”