Proto-religion explained

Proto-religion may refer to:

Religion

• Urreligion, a notion of an "original" or "oldest" form of religious tradition
• Early stages in the origin of religion in the course of human evolution
• Paleolithic religion, spiritual beliefs thought to have appeared during the Paleolithic time period

Reconstructed proto-religion

• Proto-Indo-European religion, belief system adhered to by the Proto-Indo-Europeans
• Proto-Semitic religion, polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples