[Dysart]

they settled in Greenland around the year 1,000: The climate was mild when they landed, but was it warm enough for growing barley? Researchers from the National Museum in Copenhagen say the answer to the question is 'yes'.

Umm, nei. "Ja".

[Sacajaweau]

Here, there, everywhere.

How did man figure out how to make booze and figure out how to market the stuff on such a huge scale and get folks addicted....century after century??

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, not everyone is a fan of barley. ;’)

AFAIK, the earliest known surviving sample of cultivated grain is some multirow barley, from some site in the Middle East, uncalibrated RC date of 14,000 years ago.

Probably that early breakthrough led to mass migrations out of the area, resulting in a wave of conquest and colonization, the first the world had ever seen. ;’)