The question of whether there was any admixture between the incoming farmers and the indigenous hunter-gatherers — whether there were communities that were partly WHG and partly Anatolian Neolithic — is answerable in principle from ancient DNA and is being actively investigated.

Gough’s Cave itself continues to yield material for study.

The deposits in the cave span thousands of years, and additional analysis of the human and faunal remains from the cave is ongoing.

Whether additional ancient genomes can be recovered from other specimens in the cave — from the earlier Paleolithic deposits as well as from additional Mesolithic specimens — will be determined by the preservation of DNA in those specific materials.

The stone of the Mendip Hills holds more than it has yet given up.