[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Gee they used shoes as a fashion statement? Did they wear Birkenstocks?

[BunnySlippers]

[dr_who]

I wonder if they had corner stores back then.

[max americana]

**”Even these ancient people were probably trying to express something.”**

Like mine is bigger than yours?

[Natchez Hawk]

Is that not 36,000+ years before the universe was magically created?

[kbennkc]

I am more appreciative of whoever invented pants .

[Sacajaweau]

It's really kind of dumb to think they didn't wear some kind of shoe. Walking on desert sands burns...walking on stones hurts....walking in snow freezes your toesies off...

Bottom line...You just did what you thought best. Man was never an idiot.

[Kirkwood]

Stick dead animals on your feet. Makes sense to me.

[seoul62]

Pricey-not easy on the feet, but lovey: a pair of Jimmy Choo’s./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[onedoug]

Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I
meddle with no tradesman’s matters, nor women’s
matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon
to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I
recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon
neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork. —Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”

[count-your-change]

I do love so the National Geo. They can take the merest sand grain of fact and turn it into a beach of speculation.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2026866/posts

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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492521/posts

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

[Rebelbase]

Rotating the image reveals hidden markings...

[Sawdring]

Did they have Ghetto's filled with Urban Troubadours back then also?

[SunkenCiv]

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.