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The answer isn't quite clear. It was quite obvious that some did have religious/spiritual beliefs, however we know so little about any of them that it is hard to tell exactly what they were. The only KINDA Stone Age religion, but it really wasn't fully fledged until long after the Neolithic Revolution, was the Aboriginal "Dream Time" religion; a religion which centered a dream state which they would enter by inhaling a certain vapor and they would record what they saw in the "Dream Time" on the walls with paintings of their caves. It was believed that in this "Dream Time" you would be closer to the gods, and thus prophecies and fortunes could be foretold.

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