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pThat’s the world’s oldest shoe, A HREF=”http://www.rferl.org/content/Sole_Survivor_Worlds_Oldest_Leather_Shoe_Found_In_Armenian_Cave/2067829.html?page=1x=1#relatedInfoContainer” found by archaeologists in a cave in Armenia/A. The darn thing is 5,500 years old, made of a single piece of cow leather, and features rough eyelets through which there are actual laces./p

pThe Nike Air Caveman has been dated to roughly 3,500 B.C., the same era in which man is thought to have invented the wheel; perhaps the shoe was invented because the Fred Flintstone style of starting and stopping ancient cars was hard on the feet. /p

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pBut the odd thing is that while the shoe is almost perfectly preserved (due to a combination of consistent cave temperatures and a healthy layer of sheep shit), there is only one of them, the right shoe. /p

pThen again, in the back of this particular cave, the absence of a left shoe isn’t the strangest thing they came across; that would be the three pots filled with children’s skulls, jaws removed. Looks like the world’s oldest serial killer didn’t like going barefoot./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/shoe_from_5500_years_ago_16722.asp”(more…)/a
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