Comment on de la Torre 'Omo revisited'

This very important paper disposes of the claimed artifact assemblages of Shungura Member E with convincing argument and demonstration. It also describes the pattern and regularity of the flaking episodes in Member F with clarity and authority and places these assemblages in the context of other East African assemblages of comparable dates. We may now be able to begin to address some important questions about the beginnings of stone artifact manufacture.