Out of the Caves and into the Temples
A Look at How and Why Neolithic Humans Began Constructing Sacred Monuments at the End of the Last Ice Age
5 min readDec 24, 2019
More than 40,000 years ago, people began to use caves as ritual chambers. Then, around 12,000 years ago something changed, several advanced megalithic societies began producing extraordinary stone structures in order to…