Eli5: how did humans get salt before modern means of transportation

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The human body needs salt to function properly, but surely First Nations of the prairies, people of central Africa or of Central Europe, from the Mongolian steppes and from other landlocked places, couldn’t have access to salt marshes. So where did they get it from?

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A lot of places have rock salt fairly close to the surface, and deposits are absolutely massive. In romania the oldest recorded salt mine is 700 years old while the oldest known source of salt are some salt caves that are believed to have been used 7000 years ago

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