3.Of the three selfer cereals among them—einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, and barley—the wheats offered the additional advantage of a high protein content, 8–14 percent.
4.Those eight founders were the cereals emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, and barley; the pulses lentil, pea, chickpea, and bitter vetch; and the fiber crop flax.
5.Specifically, people are interested in hulled wheat, which is similar to the kinds of wheat that were grown in ancient times, like spelt, emmer, and einkorn.
6.Of course, not all pieces of the package spread to all those outlying areas: for example, Egypt was too warm for einkorn wheat to become established.
7.Whereas the hulled spikelets of spelt, emmer, and einkorn need to be dried, heated, or milled before you can break open the hulls and get to the good stuff.
8.Equally puzzling is the failure of people to domesticate flax in its wild range in western Europe and North Africa, or einkorn wheat in its wild range in the southern Balkans.