World's oldest shoe

[canetoad]

Shoe older than the pyramids found

THINK of it as a kind of prehistoric Prada: archaeologists have discovered what they say is the world's oldest known leather shoe.

Perfectly preserved under layers of sheep dung, the shoe, made of cowhide and tanned with oil from a plant or vegetable, is about 5500 years old, older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, according to a team of archeologists led by Ron Pinhasi, of Ireland’s University of Cork.

While the shoe more closely resembles a soft-soled walking shoe than anything by Jimmy Choo, ''these were probably quite expensive shoes, made of leather, very high quality'', said one of the lead scientists, Gregory Areshian, of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/shoe-older-than-the-pyramids-found-20100610-y0dm.html

[havocmom]

1. Damn, I tore the house apart looking for that one. How did they get it?

[canetoad]

2. That'll teach you

to kick off your shoes in any old Armenian village.

[rurallib]

3. the space they found it in - did it look like a gym locker?

[pipi_k]

4. Bah! I have underpants older than that shoe... n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

5. This is at least the second duplicate on this story

Here's the first time it was posted:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8525113

[canetoad]

6. One for each shoe.

Best alert the mods rather than whine all over this thread.