5500 Year Old Leather Shoes Show Up In Armenia

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This is a right foot shoe, well preserved, made of a whole piece of leather with patterns.

The back of the leather shoes is drilled with 4 groups of small holes, one belt is passed through the small hole, and the shoe is closed.

There are 15 groups of holes in the front of leather shoes, and shoelaces fasten them through these small holes.

Leather shoes and soles are not reinforced with only one layer of soft leather.

This leather shoe is not large in size. According to the present standard, it is about the size of European No. 37 shoes.

The shoes were found in a cave in Armenia and Iran and on the border of Turkey. When they were unearthed, the shoes were stuffed with grass.

University of Oxford and University of California at Irvine determined their age by radiocarbon dating. The age of these grass and leather is between 5387 and 5637 years.

That is, its history can be traced back to 3500 BC.

The stable, cool and dry natural conditions in the cave prevent it from being encroachment, plus a thick layer of sheep manure covered in the caves, which provides a solid seal for the articles, so that shoes can not be rotten for thousands of years.

Kirk, a scholar at the University of Ireland, who led the archaeological activities, said that there were not many objects that were found in ancient archaeological activities to display ancient human daily life. This shoe can give people an opportunity to see the ancient society and ancient human activities and dress in ancient times, and so on. Ron Pinesi,

The earliest leather shoes were in 1991.

Leather is very soft when the oldest shoe is unearthed, but leather is hardened after contact with air.

The leather shoes will be sent to Switzerland or Germany for processing and then sent back to Armenia for exhibition.