and from Archaeology News Network:
Spreading like wildfire: earliest finds and spread of common millet in Europe [Credit: Carsten Reckweg, Janine Cordts & Dragana Filipovic, UFG Kiel]
Quickly became a staple crop
And thus the Bostitch Millet Stapler was born and ancient peoples could staple together their many documents.
Otzi the Iceman preceded spread of millet, but he ate einkorn wheat, which was first cultivated in Asia Minor, not an insignificant spread from there to the Italian Alps 3500 BC, but which took some 6000 years to get there.
Pearl millet was domesticated in Africa, probably in Ethiopia, in 3000 BC, maybe as early as 6000 BC.
My birds LOVE millet.