Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an early shoe tree, this 5,500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preserved - thanks to a surfeit of sheep dung - during a recent dig in an Armenian cave.
Radiocarbon dated to about 3500 B.C., during Armenia's Copper Age, the prehistoric shoe is compressed in the heel and toe area, likely due to miles upon miles of walking. But the shoe is by no means worn out.
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