Paleolithic Religion: The Genesis Of Belief

Anthropology is a study of humanity. One of the questions that academic field is trying to answer from that idea is a question that ultimately makes us human. This unique difference makes us record of another creature and fossil living in the world and pushes our next step to more. According to Donald Johansson's book "From Lucy to Language", humans are either Homo sapiens (wise man) or humanities. The only contemporary creature.

According to James B. Harrod, human beings first developed religious and spiritual beliefs during the Paleolithic period of the Paleolithic Middle or Late Paleolithic Period. Religious and anthropologist James Harold and Vincent W. Fallio, a controversial prehistoric era, have recently emerged in religion and spirituality (and art) early in the Paleolithic chimpanzee or early paleolithic era Suggested that there is a possibility) in society. According to Fario, a common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans experienced a change in conscious state, participated in rituals, and used ceremonies in their society to strengthen social connections and collective unity.

The Paleolithic religion is not institutionalized and this concept is not well developed. People of the Paleolithic Age believed that animism and spirit dominated the surrounding environment and surrounding animals. A small stone statue of a pregnant woman may suggest infertility or natural worship. They usually fill the dead

Religion may be very special; in particular, it may involve magical empathy. The rich statue of Venus in the archaeological record of the Old Stone Age is an example of the magic of magic of sympathetic nerves of the Old Stone Age. It may be used to ensure the success of hunting and to bring land and female fertility. The figurine of the Upper Stone era of the Old Stone Age may be interpreted as a representation of the goddess of the earth resembling Gaia or as a representative of an animal's ruler or a mother's goddess. James Harold explains them as representative of the transformation process of women (and men) shamanism

Upper Paleolithic people made art such as cave paintings, Venus statues, animal sculptures, rock paintings. Paleolithic upper class art can be divided into two categories: figurative art like a cave painting that clearly depicts animals (or fewer humans); and blurred with shapes and symbols. Modern archaeologists have explained the cave paintings in various ways. The earliest explanation of the prehistoric person Abbe Breuil was to interpret the picture as a kind of magic designed to make the murder successful. However, this hypothesis does not explain the existence of animals such as a feline toy or lion, but is not looking for food but is looking for half animal and half animal in a cave painting. A symbolic image may be more common in the Paleolithic cave painting than a depiction of animals and humans, a unique symbolic pattern may be a different traditional trademark of the Paleolithic era.