I noticed on this website that somebody has made the claim that
hunter gatherers in the past drank the blood of animals? Where is the
evidence for this? I know that some modern pasturalists living in
MARGINAL areas such as the Masai of Africa drink the blood of their
cattle but this is not nessecarily for salt intake, their is also
protien in blood, and it is a renewable resource. Even if there are
modern hunter gatherer tribes that can be used as ethnographic
examples it still tells us nothing about mesolithic hunter gatherers
(middle range theory is fraught with problems). My area of
archaeological interest is in Britain and perhaps this site is more
devoted to Levant etc. but I would be very interested in seeing the
evidence in favour of mesolithic hunter gatherer's drinking the blood
of animals.