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Yes and no. Here's a pile of 19 polished stone axes:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malone_hoard.JPG

They're admittedly different sizes, but the intent to churn them out is clear. These things were ambiguously tools or currency: they were transported long distances and hoarded.

There was another, older, stone age industrial site in France that produced thousands of beads. The way I remember it*, there was evidence that they fed themselves by trading beads for food. It's interesting to me that a stone age lifestyle might for some people resemble factory work.

*My apologies if I'm confabulating this. I think it was in the Loire Valley. I need to track down what exactly I'm half-remembering here.



>It's interesting to me that a stone age lifestyle might for some people resemble factory work.

There was not only factory work but unpleasant factory work like making birch tar and rendering fat.


This is an interesting counterexample, thank you. It seems that in some places, some standardization was already present back then.




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