Balma de Abeurador is a rockshelter.It has a Mesolithic period site.

The cave is the located at 50 kilometers inland from the Mediterranean Sea on the southern edge of the Massif Central and now it is southwestern France.

Excavations by Michel Barbaza and Jean Vaquer at LEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale recovered the carbonized remains of legumes , dated between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago, that appear to be domesticated.

Thus, the cave is now evidence for an early date for the invention of agriculture.