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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they did

1) evaporation of sea water (cossaks in Ukraine)

2) gathering salt at seashore (eg greek)

3) drank animal blood ( eg Yakuts in Siberia)

4) red meat and some fruits have a lot of sodium

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