Sumerian production and standardization
 

in Sumerian "temple workshops," "we find the first large-scale dairy and wool production; also the manufacture of leavened bread, beer and wine, including facilities for standardized packaging. Some eighty varieties of fish--fresh- and saltwater--appear in the administrative accounts along with their associated oil and food products"
 
see Uruk
 
"urban temple-factories were literally outputting products in uniform packaging, with the houses of the gods guaranteeing purity and quality control" (310)

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

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