Show STANDARDIZATION STANDARDIZATION- IN THE STONE AGE Standardization In find finding industry industry find ing Lag the best sizes and shapes for pickle bottles for example and then making all pickle bottles by that sat sat- factory pattern pattern pattern-Is Is nothing new Inthe in inthe the he worlds world's economic history Back In n tho the Old Stone Age when the leading leading lead lead- ing industry was turning out flint lint axes and spears the stone tool and weapon business was standardized over wide territories This Is the conclusion reported by Reid Moir British archeologist who has las specialized In study of the stone implements left by men of the Old Stone Age Mr Moir Is now strongly inclined to the view that at certain periods of the past stone implements were being made on the same highly specialized plan over enormous areas of the earths earth's surface having started from rom a common center If the stone workers workers' technique spread in this way it must have taken takena a long long time Mr Moir believes that it did and that most scientists who compute mans man's antiquity have much underestimated the tile age of the human race Stone Slone implements found near Gaza in Palestine by Sir Flinders Petrie were recently submitted to Mr Moir for examination He pronounced them to be of two types Some were massive specimens shaped by removing remove ing lag thick wide flakes The others representing a more advanced stage of Stone Age technique were made by ay detaching thin rather long flakes Similar Implements were made by Stone Slone Age men In En England land in two sta stages es of the Old Stone Age |