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Oldest leather shoe found

Dung preserved 5,500-year-old artifact in Armenia

By Pam Belluck / The Bulletin
June 10, 2010

Think of it as a kind of prehistoric Prada: Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the world's oldest known leather shoe.

Perfectly preserved under layers of sheep dung (who needs cedar closets?), the shoe, made of cowhide and tanned with oil from a plant or vegetable, is about 5,500....

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