These three fuctions of standing stones can co-exist on an enormous sideline con*. And it's this symbolic use of standing stones that characterizes the Neolithic Age 5 to 6,000 years ago.  When the Neolithic Age reached Britain, over one thousand stone monuments were built from Ox to C*. In the Stonehenge region, one of the earliest examples of the ceremonial uses of stone is the West Kennet Burial Chamber. -We see a whole host of changes accompanying shifts from hunt-gathers in m* to farmers in the Neolithic. And that involved communal building projects, like Stonehenge ultimately, but before that, projects like West Kennet.