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by card_zero
89 days ago
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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. |
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There was not only factory work but unpleasant factory work like making birch tar and rendering fat.