Areni-1 shoe

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Areni-1 shoe
MaterialLeather
Createdc. 3500 BC
Discovered2008
Areni-1 cave, Vayots Dzor, Armenia
Discovered byDiana Zardaryan
Present locationYerevan, Armenia

The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old

UCLA).[2]

Discovery

An Armenian post-graduate student, Diana Zardaryan, discovered the leather shoe during the course of excavations by a team of archeologists from Armenia's Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Ireland and the United States.[3] The shoe was found upside down at the base of a shallow, rounded, and plastered pit that was 45 cm (18 in) deep and 44–48 cm (17–19 in) wide, beneath an overturned broken Chalcolithic ceramic bowl.[4] A broken pot and goat horns also were found nearby. Excavations in the same area also found the world's oldest known wine-making site.[5]

The research was funded by the

UCLA.[6] The team's findings were published on June 9, 2010, in the journal PLOS One
.

Analysis

The shoe was found in near-perfect condition due to the cool and dry conditions in the cave and a thick layer of sheep dung which acted as a solid seal. Large storage containers were found in the same cave, many of which held well-preserved wheat, barley, and

shoe laces were preserved as well.[7]

Major similarities exist between the manufacturing technique and style of one-piece leather-hide shoes discovered across Europe and the one reported from Areni-1 Cave, suggesting that shoes of this type were worn for millennia across a large and environmentally diverse geographic region.

Opanci (Opanke).[9]

When the material was dated by the two radiocarbon laboratories in Oxford and California, it was established that the shoe dates back to 3,500 BC. This date is some two hundred years older than the date given for the leather shoe found on Ötzi the Iceman.

After having been treated for preservation, the Areni-1 shoe is on display at the History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dindar, Shereen (June 9, 2010). "World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved". National Post. Canada. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
  2. ^ Bruce Bower (July 3, 2010). "Ancient shoe steps out of cave and into limelight". Science News. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
  3. RFE/RL
    ), June 12, 2010.
  4. ^
    PMC 2882957
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  5. ^ "'Oldest known wine-making facility' found in Armenia". BBC. January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
  6. ^ "Oldest Leather Shoe Steps Out After 5,500 Years". Huffington Post.
  7. ^ a b c "What's Older Than the Pyramids and Smells Worse Than a Mummy?". Fox News. June 9, 2010. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
  8. ^ "5,500-year leather mocassin world's oldest shoe". AFP. June 10, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
  9. ^ National Geographic: World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved
  10. ^ Gevorgyan, Siranuysh (June 14, 2010). "Do You Have that in a Size 38?: World's oldest shoe to go on display in Yerevan". ArmeniaNow.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
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