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Wearing shoes
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:42 pm
by 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.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:59 am
by Ishtar
Isn't that the date for Out of Africa? Guess they must have known they were gonna have be doing some walking?
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:14 pm
by john
Ishtar wrote: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
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:04 pm
by Ishtar
John -
Na-ah.
Here's what they were wearing.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:30 pm
by rich
And that was all
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:10 pm
by Minimalist
the classic
Deck shoe for those who boat.
They came in one color....red ochre.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:48 pm
by john
Minimalist wrote: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
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:06 pm
by Minimalist
H. C. Andersen was psychotic.
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:00 pm
by john
Minimalist wrote:H. C. Andersen was psychotic.
Minimalist -
......A common enough epithet for a shaman,
No matter what the era..........
john
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:11 pm
by Minimalist
No argument from me, John.
Research
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:06 am
by 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.
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:14 am
by Minimalist
It's the same mentality for boats, arrows, and atlatls. If "we" don't find it - "they" didn't have it!
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:21 am
by 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.
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:45 pm
by john
Digit wrote: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