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Posted on 08/27/2006 7:42:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
University of Oregon archaeologist Pam Endzweig escorted what may be the oldest shoe on earth to Washington, D.C., recently to be featured in the current edition of the National Geographic... On page 79, a sandal woven of sagebrush bark more than 300 generations ago sits softly lit on a sheet of coarse brown paper, one of 11 examples of footwear illustrating the article "Why Every Shoe Tells a Story." ...The story of the Fort Rock sandals is well known, at least in Oregon. The U of O's Museum of Natural and Cultural History houses a cache of the ancient sandals found by the U of O's Luther Cressman in a Central Oregon cave in 1938... Perhaps no other photograph in the pictorial has more to say about human culture. The frayed, worn sandal was perhaps worn next to a campfire at a time when the pyramids were just a gleam in the pharaohs' eyes.
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This tread will still be here when you get back.
Ow. My feet hurt, after this tread.
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LOL!
At least you can still Converse, right? ;')
Nike, given more Air, Jordan.
Fort Rock is where I go rat hunting in the alfalfa fields.
One of the farmers plowed up a skull with an arrow head in it. Feds took it.
I found a fossilized clam shell next to a rat hole in one field. I took it. So far that is still legal to do.
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