The world’s oldest leather shoes

June 15th, 2010 one Commented

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The oldest shoe comes into light after 5,500 years, which is made out of the cow hide. The 5,500 years shoe was worn by someone from the mountains of Armenia. The oldest shoe will easily confuse us whether it is a penny loafer or a track shoe. The leather shoe is well preserved and is designed fro m a single piece of leather which is laced at front and back. The report of finding the oldest leather shoe was reported last week Wednesday in PloS One journal. The leather shoe is designed to be worn on the right leg of a person.

The oldest leather shoe was found avoided in a cave was human occupation can be found. The leather shoe was being stuffed with grass which helps us to know the time of the shoe. The date of the oldest leather shoe may be anywhere around 5,67 and 5,387 years say Archeology experts. The archeologists who found the oldest shoe was Ron Pinhasi from the university college Cork.

The real glimpse of what people used can be known from the broken pots, eateries know we have come to known what they wore. Previously the oldest shoe was been found in the Asia at famous Otzi and there a iceman was frozen at the spot. The frozen iceman of the Alps is being now preserved at the Italy and the Otzi is dated back to 5,375 and 5128. Otzi shoe was made out of the leather of bear and deer which was connected to each other with a leather strap.but the recently found shoe is the oldest say archeologists.

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