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The earliest known shoes are sagebrush bark sandals dating from approximately 7000 or 8000 BC, found in the Fort Rock Cave in the US state of Oregon in 1938. [5] The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in the Areni-1 cave complex in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3500 BC.
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.
In 2008, Armenian PhD student and archeologist Diana Zardaryan of the country's Institute of Archaeology discovered the earliest known shoe at the site. [4] In January 2011, the earliest known winery in the world was uncovered in the cave. [5] Later, in September 2011, the discovery of a straw skirt dating to 3,900 years BCE was reported. [6]
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 ...
7th millennium BC – Earliest known shoes. 6th millennium BC – Dugout canoes constructed. 4th millennium BC – The earliest vehicles may have been ox carts. [2] 3500 BCE – Domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel in Ancient Near East; Toys excavated from the Indus Valley Civilisation (3010–1500 BC) include small carts.
The earliest known pair of geta was excavated in a neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, dated to the Liangzhu culture (3400–2250 BCE). These geta differed in construction to modern geta, having five or six holes in place of the modern-day three.
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45 kya – 9 kya: Earliest evidence of shoes, suggested by changes in foot bone morphology in China by Tianyuan man. [51] The earliest physical shoes found so far are bark sandals dated to 10 to 9 kya in Fort Rock Cave, United States. [52] 44 kya – 42 kya: Tally sticks (see Lebombo bone) in Eswatini [53] 42 kya: Flute in Germany [54] [55]