may hold the answer. Here we find a flint stone working which when excavated revealed monolithic pillars built around 12,000 years ago, just as the cave paintings seemed to stop. These stone pillars feature carvings of animals such as those in the caves. The effort in creating these stone pillars would have required considerable man power and organisation and the workers needed feeding. Recent research has shown that modern wheat can be traced to wild wheat that grows within 20 miles of this site which has lead scholars to speculate that this was the birthplace of agricultural farming and, in turn, civilisation itself.