Organized groups assembled monumental stone burials in northwestern Europe. The one at Île Longue, for example, built ca. 4100 B.C., incorporates a chamber with a corbeled dome and a passage faced with huge slabs. Megaliths in western Europe symbolized the structure of organized groups. The respected the dead by building burial tombs.
Agriculture
Wheat and barley, a common Eastern crop, was westernized in 5500 B.C. Farmers cleared forests to make way for larger fields and honor the cattle with a ritual burial. The ox-drwan plow began to change the face of agriculture. The beginning of agriculture is important because it showed that the civilizations settled and were no longer nomads. They settled and began to make a living for themselves by farming and domesticating animals.
"Western and Central Europe, 8000–2000 B.C.."Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. 2009. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Web. 25 Jan 2010. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=02®ion=euw>.
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