Theory: Iceman Oetzi Wore High-Tech Shoes

Discovery ^ | 2-23-2005 | Jennifer Viegas

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Thanks to FReeper Michael_Michaelangelo for the posting. Also, place him on the GGG Ping list.

[Puppage]

[Lijahsbubbe]

ping

[Lijahsbubbe]

The recent analysis suggests that prehistoric people were technologically more sophisticated, better equipped, and more suitably dressed than previously thought.

No doubt. I suppose thousands of years from now, scientists would assign all kinds of ridiculous rituals and superstitious behavior to things such as the superbowl, Playstation and jogging, if there were no technological record.

[Cagey]

Kramer: "What d'you got there?"

Jimmy: "These?"

Kramer: "Yeah"

Jimmy: "These are Jimmy's training shoes."

George: "Yeah,yeah yeah yeah! I've seen these.....they sorta ..they make

your legs..stronger."

Jimmy: "Oh yeah! Jimmy couldn't jump at all before he got these. Jimmy was

like you (looks at G.)

Kramer: "They're Plyometric.(sp?)"

George: "Plyometric?"

Kramer: "Yeah! They isolate the muscles. The muscle has to grow....or die."

George: (to Jimmy) Wh...Where d'you get'em?"

Jimmy: "Jimmy sells'em."

[AggieCPA]

I'm guessing Chuck Taylor was descended from these people.

Oops, high-tech shoes, I thought it was high-TOP shoes. Sorry, nevermind.

[Puppage]

Your Jimmy's kind a girl....Jimmy really likes you.

[Hatteras]

Gee, and all along I thought my PF Flyers were the original high-tech shoe...

[Vaquero]

"No doubt. I suppose thousands of years from now, scientists would assign all kinds of ridiculous rituals and superstitious behavior to things such as the superbowl, Playstation and jogging, if there were no technological record."

yes and if any of the bodies of myriad people today with Celtic and other tribal tattoo's are found with skin preserved, the anthropologists will just plotz themselves.

[Lijahsbubbe]

[lepton]

with the other snowshoe having gone missing over the thousands of years.

Maybe it thought it was a sock.

[LYSandra]

Forerunner to the Birkenstock? Was he a yuppie?

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Apparantly, humans that lived thousands of years ago aren't as unsophisticated as we once thought.

Thanks for the Ping.

[Cagey]

Jimmy has a pair just for you.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Umm, high TECH, not high heeled.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Correction: weren't as unsophisticated...

[Puppage]

I am DIE'N ova here!!!!

[Larry Lucido]

Jimmy: "Hey look. Hank's got a new boyfriend. Jimmy's not threatened by Hanks sexuality ... Jimmy's happy for Hank."

Elaine: "Elaine once tried to convert one but Elaine's not going through that again."

[wildbill]

I'm interested in archeology. If your GGG ping list is about that subject, please put me on.