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The Oldest Leather Shoe Ever Found, Can You Believe It 5,500 years by ajelerojnr: 5:55pm On Jun 10, 2010
5,500 years ago someone in the mountains of Armenia put his best foot forward in what is now the oldest leather shoe ever found.
It'll never be confused with a penny loafer or a track shoe, but the well-preserved footwear was made of a single piece of leather, laced up the front and back, researchers reported Wednesday in PLoS One, a journal of the Public Library of Science.

Worn and shaped by the wearer's right foot, the shoe was found in a cave along with other evidence of human occupation. The shoe had been stuffed with grass, which dated to the same time as the leather of the shoe — between 5,637 and 5,387 years ago.

"This is great luck," enthused archaeologist Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, who led the research team.
"We normally only find broken pots, but we have very little information about the day-to-day activity" of these ancient people. "What did they eat? What did they do? What did they wear? This is a chance to see this ,  it gives us a real glimpse into society," he said in a telephone interview

Re: The Oldest Leather Shoe Ever Found, Can You Believe It 5,500 years by Nobody: 6:03pm On Jul 05, 2011
Wow! I wonder what that shoe's worth now - probably priceless.

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