>> then someone came along and created a monument,(wood or stone)making a place in space.

Did 'places in space' not exist before man made them? Surely, long before man decided to mark a place, Nature had marked so many already. Great hills; rocky outcrops; waterfalls. All magical, all special and without man's intervention.

Then, before cirles of stone or treetrunks were first erected there were the forest clearings, some natural, some man-made. The sacred grove survived into the first millenium in the UK (or so Claudius et al tell us.) Woodhenges were surely weak facsimiles of the original groves, built in areas that were perhaps treeless, or perhaps built to make humanity's first attempt at taking control from Nature. No longer were Nature's temples good enough. Now temples were needed where man wanted them, maybe through practicallity, maybe because of a significant solar/celestial event that needed to be marked or honoured.