Posted on 07/01/2008 8:09:54 PM PDT by blam
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First Shoes Worn 40,000 Years Ago
Yahoo News | 6-5-2008 | Maggie Koerth-Baker
Posted on 06/05/2008 8:01:34 PM PDT by blam
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Aching Feet? Early Humans Figured Out Solutions
MSNBC | 8-20-2005 | Erik Trinkaus
Posted on 09/27/2005 6:34:57 PM PDT by blam
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Bones reveal first shoe-wearers
BBC | 8/24/05 | Olivia Johnson
Posted on 08/24/2005 10:06:07 PM PDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470209/posts
Capitalism has been around longer than anyone expected.
But the man who popularized pants for the modern man is Beau Brummell, the English socialite who caused a sensation by rejecting breeches in favor of pants.
I am very grateful for pants . I liked the Beau Brummells Laugh Laugh , Cry Just a Little
Did they have Ghetto's filled with Urban Troubadours back then also?
Study author Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, said the scarcity of toe bone fossils makes it hard to determine when habitual shoe-wearing became widespread. However, he noted, even Neandertals may have been strapping on sandals. "Earlier humans, including Neanderthals, show [some] evidence of occasionally wearing shoes," Trinkaus said.
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