Roughly 7000 years ago, the neolithic inhabitants of Italy practiced religion deep underground. Let's take a look at one brilliant example of that, the "water cult" of Grotta Scaloria.
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Sources:
1 - Guilane, Jean. “The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe.” The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe, by Chris Fowler et al., Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 81–98.
2 - Skeates, Robin. “Underground Religion In The Central Mediterranean Neolithic.” The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe, by Chris Fowler et al., Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 895–910.
3 - Robb, John, et al. “Cleaning the Dead: Neolithic Ritual Processing of Human Bone at Scaloria Cave, Italy.” Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 343, 2015, pp. 39–54., doi:10.15184/aqy.2014.35.
4 - Shennan, Stephen. The First Farmers of Europe: an Evolutionary Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
