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To: Ellendra

Do you know how people in the past got enough salt? Like the pioneers especially in the middle of the country, where there was no salt water


1,285 posted on 02/05/2020 8:19:53 PM PST by CottonBall (This space for rent.)
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To: CottonBall
Do you know how people in the past got enough salt? Like the pioneers especially in the middle of the country, where there was no salt water

They bought or traded for it.

Salt is probably our oldest trade good. Not such a problem when we lived by the sea but an issue when we moved inland.

Salt was being mined in Hallstatt at least 7000 years ago.

1,291 posted on 02/05/2020 10:35:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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