5,550 year old leather shoe.

[Clarendon]

I came across this today while looking for period shoe information. Thought some of you might find this interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100609/ap_on_sc/us_sci_old_shoe

[DonaCatalina]

Cool. It looks better made than I would have expected.

[Merlin the Elder]

I've been looking for that shoe for ages! ...

Pretty amazing that it lasted this long! That must have come from some tough-arsed critter.

[ArielCallista]

Holy crap thats cool! I'm considering printing it off and taking it to work (I work in a shoe store)

[Queen Bonnie]

 Very interesting. Nice shoe- but too large for me! LOL!

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

Cool. It looks better made than I would have expected.

I'm sure better made than most shoes today

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

My ghillies made by Willin Sole are MUCH nicer!

And I'm still waiting for the ice cream heels that NoBill Lurker told me he sent!   

[DonaCatalina]

I just realized last night that this shoe was left in its resting place 2000 years before Moses led the Israelites across the reed sea.

[Welsh Wench]

I found this sentence interesting---

But Pinhasi doesn't think it was thrown away. There was discarded material that had been tossed outside the cave, while this pit was inside in the living area. And while the shoe had been worn, it wasn't worn out.

There HAS to be its mate around there....somewhere!

[Lady Nicolette]

A lost sole...

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

I found this sentence interesting---

But Pinhasi doesn't think it was thrown away. There was discarded material that had been tossed outside the cave, while this pit was inside in the living area. And while the shoe had been worn, it wasn't worn out.

There HAS to be its mate around there....somewhere!

Maybe a one-legged person? 

[Merlin the Elder]

A lost sole...

bloody brilliant! 

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

A lost sole...

M'lady and I over the last many years have taken pictures of the single shoes you seem to find around - especially along roadways.  We eventually want to compile them in a book with and were going to title it "Lost Soles"