Prehistoric Religion and its effects on today's religions
From the book World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present edited by Geoffrey Parrinder, chapter 1, "Prehistoric Religion"
In the book World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present, edited by Geoffrey Parrinder, you are told all about the background of many different religions. How they started, what their beliefs are, where they go after they die, and much more. One example of this is when the book tells about how once there were nests of skulls found in Bavaria, and how that connected to the beliefs and rituals of prehistoric religions because they were dried and ceremonially preserved. Another example is when the book tells about cave art, sculptures, paintings, and engravings from about 40,000 BC to 12,000 BC. They were created or drawn by early homo sapiens that were doing this stuff for their religious beliefs. Finally, the book tells about "The Sorcerer", which was a painting or engraving upon a cave wall of a man engaged in a sacred ance, showing that he was an arch-sorcerer in the midst of some sort of prehistoric ritual meant to bring men and animals together. These ideas are similar to churches that have stain-glass windows meant to praise God, just like the engravings and cave paintings because they both are meant to praise a higher power.

-prehistoric religion affects today's religions
-some prehistoric beliefs still live today
-prehistoric burials and ceremonies are similar to funerals today
-few changes are made from their art to religious art today (cave paintings--> stain glass windows)
-they believed in a sacred power
-similar to today's religions because many believe in sacred power as well
-their first god was the Early Mother-Goddesses