Humans Wore Shoes 40,000 Years Ago, Fossil Suggests

National Geographic News ^ | 7-1-2008 | Scott Norris

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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?

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Previously posted here;

First Shoes Worn 40,000 Years Ago

[shineon]

lol thanks

[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.

[skinkinthegrass]

I'm sure, Imeda Marcos, Is insisting, "Its' in my Genes!"

[trumandogz]

First came the shoe and then came the universe.

[blam]

"I am more appreciative of whoever invented pants ."

Pants were invented by the people who domesticated the horse. Straddling a horse is pretty tough without pants. The people in the article below probably domesticated the horse:

The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy

The oldest pair of pants ever found was being worn by these folks.

[Kirkwood]

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

[Natchez Hawk]

Footwear is always in fashion ;)

[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.

[lesser_satan]

MARULLUS :But what trade art thou? answer me directly.

Second Commoner :A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe
conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.

MARULLUS :What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?

Second Commoner :Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,
if you be out, sir, I can mend you.