How did hunter-gatherers get enough salt in their diet?

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Did they just find salt on the ground and lick it? Did they drink animal blood? Did they drink ocean water (I hope not)?

I’ve always wondered this since I was a little kid.

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When you visit Baka people in south east Cameroon ,a hunter gatherer culture ,it is considered good form to bring salt as a gift . They often have a goitre coming ,i believe ,from the lack of iodine from sea salt . Salt was found in the ground ,but often mixed with clay or rocks that has to be purified or eaten too . Animals too will gather in this places to lick rocks to get their sodium .

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