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Title: 5,550 year old leather shoe.
Post by: Clarendon on June 10, 2010, 12:23:03 PM
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
Title: Re: 5,550 year old leather shoe.
Post by: DonaCatalina on June 10, 2010, 01:28:37 PM
Cool. It looks better made than I would have expected.
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Post by: Merlin the Elder on June 10, 2010, 02:13:53 PM
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.
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Post by: ArielCallista on June 10, 2010, 02:55:28 PM
Holy crap thats cool! I'm considering printing it off and taking it to work (I work in a shoe store)
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Post by: Queen Bonnie on June 10, 2010, 06:20:22 PM
 Very interesting. Nice shoe- but too large for me! LOL!
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Post by: Gauwyn of Bracknell on June 10, 2010, 06:35:47 PM
Quote from: DonaCatalina on June 10, 2010, 01:28:37 PM
Cool. It looks better made than I would have expected.

I'm sure better made than most shoes today
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Post by: Lady Renee Buchanan on June 10, 2010, 07:27:32 PM
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!    ;)
Title: Re: 5,550 year old leather shoe.
Post by: DonaCatalina on June 11, 2010, 06:00:37 AM
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.
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Post by: Welsh Wench on June 11, 2010, 06:06:58 AM
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!
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Post by: Lady Nicolette on June 11, 2010, 07:24:45 AM
A lost sole...
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Post by: Gauwyn of Bracknell on June 11, 2010, 12:22:37 PM
Quote from: Welsh Wench on June 11, 2010, 06:06:58 AM
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?  :D
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Post by: Merlin the Elder on June 11, 2010, 03:02:12 PM
Quote from: Lady Nicolette on June 11, 2010, 07:24:45 AM
A lost sole...
bloody brilliant!  :D
Title: Re: 5,550 year old leather shoe.
Post by: Gauwyn of Bracknell on June 11, 2010, 03:51:10 PM
Quote from: Lady Nicolette on June 11, 2010, 07:24:45 AM
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"