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  2. Areni-1 shoe - Wikipedia

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    The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave located in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia. [1] It is a one-piece leather-hide shoe, the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world known to contemporary researchers.

  3. Footwear - Wikipedia

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    In medieval Europe, leather shoes and boots became more common. At first most were simply pieces of leather sewn together and then held tight around the foot with a toggle or drawstring. This developed into the turnshoe, where the sole and upper were sewn together and then turned inside-out to hide and protect the seam and improve water resistance.

  4. History of hide materials - Wikipedia

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    The oldest confirmed leather tanning tools were found in ancient Sumer and date to approximately 5000 BCE. [5] The oldest surviving piece of leather footwear is the Areni-1 shoe that was made in Armenia around 3500 BCE. Another, possibly older, piece of leather was found in Guitarrero Cave in northern Peru, dating to the Archaic period. [2]: 340

  5. Oldest-known shoes in European history found in Spanish bat cave

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    A pair of sandals woven from grass around 6,000 years ago and found in a Spanish cave are being hailed as the oldest-known footwear in Europe. A fresh analysis of the ancient kicks discovered by ...

  6. These 6,000-year-old sandals found in a Spanish cave are ...

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    New analysis has identified the oldest shoes ever discovered in Europe, according to a study published this week in the journal Science Advances. These 6,000-year-old sandals found in a Spanish ...

  7. The world's oldest shoes? Sandals found in bat cave believed ...

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    Similar sandals found in Armenia are estimated to be 5,500 years old, while the shoes worn by “Ötzi the Iceman” — a prehistoric man found in Italy in 1991 — are dated to 5,300 years ago.