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From the report: The evidence comes from a 40,000-year-old human fossil with delicate toe bones indicative of habitual shoe-wearing, experts say.
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8 responses // Humans wore shoes 40,000 years ago

  • Call me a huge archaeology nerd, but the fact that human beings AND neanderthals were occasionally wearing shoes or sandals 40,000 years ago is pretty amazing. I wonder if the fact that both wore some type of footwear indicates interaction between the two species.
    dcuisinot
  • I would say that there was a good chance of some interaction.
    MoonLoon
  • Humans killed them all and then took their shoes.
    Frier_peppino
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  • Now thats a sneaker collectors dream! If it goes on ebay, i'm on it!!!
    CTZNWES
  • Very cool!
    I think we have not even gotten a microscopic view of how other cultures operated before us.
    CarolynGillis
  • We continually under estimate The Ancients-our predecessors-who obviously did something right to over come the challenges of their day because we’re here talking about them right now. Having toured many ancient archeological sites shows a commonality of existence both then & now. Everybody wakes up with the hope of making it through another day with the least amount of adversity, being rewarded for his or her efforts in their own way & sharing a day’s end meal with the safety & security of loved ones.

    I don’t think much has changed about the human life cycle other than the way we go about satisfying our basic needs. Too bad so much valuable knowledge accumulated over thousands of years has to be relearned by our know-it-all society to find the delicate balance of survival that served The Ancients so well & for so long. It’s a shame that so many items used daily, mostly made of organic material, have been reclaimed by nature, if not pillaged first, leaving us to painstakingly sift through sites for these tell-tale fragments in order to reconstruct a glimpse into their daily lives.

    These discoveries are no less important, but certainly lack the thrill of uncovering treasures of ancient life like King Tut’s tomb, Pompeii, Machu Picchu & of course, Otzi, the fascinating 5,300 year old iceman found preserved high up in the Alps, to name just a few. However, mankind’s insatiable quest for knowledge & learning is a double-edged sword. While continuing to perpetuate our existence & propel us into the future with computers & the internet, it has also put us in the precarious position of how we’ve handled certain discoveries, like nuclear power, by eventually using them for both good & evil. Only we can decide how the current circumstances of the world will be handled, determining mankind’s ultimate outcome. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that all great civilizations eventually come to an end.
    darkhorsejim
  • Does this just show that we haven't changed much? Or change and evolution of our species is very fucking slow?
    ipodrulz

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