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Probably, but because they had no writing and their cave-paintings are enigmatic, it's difficult to know what their concept of it was. Some have suggested that it was similar to the North American Indian idea of the 'Happy Hunting Ground', others that it equated vaguely with the Aboriginal belief in 'The Dreamtime'. We'll never know for sure.
Even atheistic archaeologists admit that all ancient humans believed in the spiritual realm. This is understood from the ritual burials and the burying with jewelry. The entire ancient world possessed the original tradition of the Creation, the existence of the human soul and the afterlife, the special status of the number seven, the dignity of the dead, etc.
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Since the paleolithic peoples left no written records, it is possible only to speculate about what they believed in.
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Did Paleolithic people believe in heaven?
Maybe not Heaven exactly, but probably some form of afterlife.
Do all people need religion or some form of an afterlife or is it just our ego?
This is a very uneasy topic. There are people who have had contact to the afterlife or a form of after life. There are people who wish that there could be an afterlife, but don't believe in it. There are people who believe in a religion, and people who only believe in religion so they have something to emotionally attach themselves to.
Do hidus believe in the afterlife?
yes they do believe in afterlife
Do English people believe in the afterlife?
It completely depends on their religion.
What did Egytians believe about the afterlife?
What is the afterlife
Why is it that some people do not believe in an afterlife?
Why don't you believe in unicorns? Because it's stupid, illogical, and has no proof.
What is it called when you only believe in afterlife but not god?
AnswerIt is certainly not necessary to believe in the Abrahamic God to believe in an afterlife. Many religions offer hope for an afterlife in return for belief in their gods. However, to believe in an afterlife, but not believe in any gods, is a form of spiritualism.
What do Pastafarians believe about the afterlife?
Pastafarians believe that the afterlife is full of beer volcanoes and stripper factories.
What did people in ancient china do for people when they died?
well, because they were buried with these items. on the journey to the afterlife they take these valuable item with them so they are rich in the afterlife and have a righteous afterlife for all eternity
What did the fact that Paleolithic and neolithic people buried the dead would give us tell us about them?
The burial of the dead by Paleolithic and Neolithic people suggests a belief in an afterlife or ritualistic practices associated with honoring the deceased. It also reflects a level of social organization and symbolic thinking in these early human societies.
What religon did ancient Egyptians believe in?
Egyptians strongly believed in afterlife. They left food, clothing and toys in pyramids for the new people of the afterlife.-- Amanda--
Why do people believe in an afterlife when there's proof we've evolved?
Evolution does not preclude the possibility of an afterlife, so you may choose to believe that we have souls that continue in some kind of afterlife when we die. Many people do believe in an afterlife because it provides comfort to think that loved ones have not merely deceased. However, there is not a scintilla of evidence that there really is an afterlife.
