Editing Stone Age (section)

===Stone Age rituals and beliefs===
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[[File:Paulnabrone.jpg|thumb|[[Poulnabrone dolmen]] in [[County Clare]], Ireland]]

Modern studies and the in-depth analysis of finds dating from the Stone Age indicate certain [[ritual]]s and [[belief]]s of the people in those prehistoric times. It is now believed that activities of the Stone Age humans went beyond the immediate requirements of procuring food, body coverings, and shelters. Specific [[Ritual|rite]]s relating to death and burial were practiced, though certainly differing in style and execution between cultures. {{Citation needed|date=November 2008}} [[Megalithic tomb]]s, multichambered, and [[dolmen]]s, single-chambered, were [[Grave (burial)|graves]] with a huge stone slab stacked over other similarly large stone slabs; they have been discovered all across Europe and Asia and were built in the [[Neolithic]] and the [[Bronze Age]].