Most of us are used to having a saltshaker available at any meal. Ornately decorated salt dishes call back to a time when it was a luxury. JEFFREY S. EVANS & ASSOCIATES
alt has played an important
Sa role in human history as it does at the dinner table. It provides necessary nutrients, and it made food preservation possible long before refrigeration. The difficulty of obtaining it and the amount of processing required made it extremely valuable.
Many known prehistoric towns were salt production sites; human migration, trade, and even wars have been driven by access…