World's oldest shoe discovered

It goes the Shoe you nothing is new ! Man Rocked even 5,000 yrs ago !

Fox News has a short memory - if it has any, that is... It is probable that the first shoes were worn by ancient man in the Ice Age, around 500,000 years ago, out of necessity to protect against the harsh climate. Historians hypothesise that indeed footwear must have been necessary to deal with the conditions. However, protective footwear similar to the modern-day shoe is considered to be a much later development. It has been difficult for archaeologists to determine exactly when humans stopped going barefoot, however, because the plant and animal materials used to make prehistoric shoes is hi... [More]

Surprising that it survived, maybe, but not that it existed: American Indians, who mostly had a stone-age technology, had shoes so there's no reason to think shoes didn't exist, say, fifty thousand years ago.

I've always wondered how they determine exactly how old something prehistoric is... Hmmmmmmmm.................... Search this site, or Google: radio-carbon dating, dendrochronology. thermoluminescence. Just as a start.

I've been wondering where I left that shoe.....

Ever notice how when you drive down a street you occasionally see one shoe? Guess that kind of thing happened even back then.

I don't think I'd want to shovel sheep **** in that shoe!

It was found in a cave? I'm surprised it wasn't found at the side of the road......For some reason that's where all odd shoes end-up in the uk....

I don't know why the "experts" are surprised that the shoe is so similar to modern footwear. It aint like there's much scope for dramatic practical designs. Any shoes that look odd are usually difficult to walk in, as Lady Gaga demonstrated recently. Now if that ancient shoe had "Reebok" on the sole, I woulda been surprised.

It was found in a cave? I'm surprised it wasn't found at the side of the road......For some reason that's where all odd shoes end-up in the uk.... in the U.S. too blueandi ! it's an unexplained mystery ...you noticed.. only ONE world's oldest shoe was found! * and.. funny eldorado!