Wearing shoes

[rich]

First shoes worn about 40,000 yrs. ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200 ... 00yearsago

Humans started wearing shoes about 40,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, new anthropological research suggests.

[Ishtar]

Isn't that the date for Out of Africa? Guess they must have known they were gonna have be doing some walking?

[john]

Isn't that the date for Out of Africa? Guess they must have known they were gonna have be doing some walking?

Ishtar -

Incorrect.

Those were the earliest form of Sperry Topsiders, the classic

Deck shoe for those who boat.



john

[Ishtar]

John -

Na-ah.

Here's what they were wearing.

[rich]

And that was all

[Minimalist]

the classic
Deck shoe for those who boat.

They came in one color....red ochre.

[john]

the classic
Deck shoe for those who boat.

They came in one color....red ochre.

Minimalist -

For all who consider the deeper sources...............

http://hca.gilead.org.il/red_shoe.html


hoka hey


john

[Minimalist]

H. C. Andersen was psychotic.

[john]

H. C. Andersen was psychotic.

Minimalist -

......A common enough epithet for a shaman,


No matter what the era..........



john

[Minimalist]

No argument from me, John.

[Cognito]

Humans started wearing shoes about 40,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, new anthropological research suggests.

I love these quotes:

"... much earlier that previously thought" ... by whom?

If I was smart enough to percussion flake handaxes and other tools, as well as carve wood and weave twine, etc., I would certainly be putting something on my feet since those tool flakes would be slicing my feet and everyone else's around me.

[Minimalist]

It's the same mentality for boats, arrows, and atlatls. If "we" don't find it - "they" didn't have it!

[Digit]

The earlier comment about iron and steel is a case in point, I doubt that early man had steel, personally, but I wouldn't stake my life on it.
Iron will corrode under the right conditions, and at a rate determined by those conditions, but unless lost in a totally dry area all of it will eventually vanish.
My local soil is wet and acid and most Iron based materials corrode very rapidly indeed.
Just as we don't find very early wooden, hide or skin products there has to be a limit to Iron goods.
The smelting of Iron is probably easier in fact than for Copper.

[john]

The earlier comment about iron and steel is a case in point, I doubt that early man had steel, personally, but I wouldn't stake my life on it.
Iron will corrode under the right conditions, and at a rate determined by those conditions, but unless lost in a totally dry area all of it will eventually vanish.
My local soil is wet and acid and most Iron based materials corrode very rapidly indeed.
Just as we don't find very early wooden, hide or skin products there has to be a limit to Iron goods.
The smelting of Iron is probably easier in fact than for Copper.

Digit -

Don't forget the opportunistic use of meteoric nickel-iron.

Which is similar to stainless, and also delivered from the stars.

Up here in the Northwest, there is solid history for riverine

Solid copper nuggets of a very large size,

Which then were converted into objects of both practical

And artistic/spiritual use.


hoka hey


john