Re: [tied] Re: Sun salt

Daniel J. Milton wrote:

> Solar evaporation of sea water is one way to get salt. Mining
> salt deposits is another. The latter was probably preceded by simply
> scraping efflorescences off rocks of the proper chemistry (usually
> nasty bitter stuff but I've done it in a emergency myself).
> So your suggestion, if true, has implications for the homeland of
> IE, which is generally considered lacking originally maritime words.

In Poland's oldest salt mine, Wieliczka (now on the outskirts of
Kraków), where there is evidence of a thriving salt industry as far back
as ca. 3500 BC, salt was originally obtained by boiling saturated brine
and letting it crystalize in conical clay pots. Wieliczka is in southern
Poland, far inland.

Piotr