When Did Humans First Start Wearing Shoes?

When Did Humans First Start Wearing Shoes? You kicked your shoes off at the door today without thinking about it. But the oldest shoes ever found are only about ten thousand years old, and the toe bones of a forty-thousand-year-old skeleton say people were wearing them far earlier. So how do we know, and what did those first shoes quietly change about our feet? Sources: Trinkaus, E. and Shang, H., "Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear: Tianyuan and Sunghir," Journal of Archaeological Science, 2008 Pinhasi, R. et al., "First Direct Evidence of Chalcolithic Footwear from the Near Eastern Highlands," PLoS ONE, 2010 Cressman, L. S., Fort Rock Cave sandals, University of Oregon excavations, 1938 (verify before publishing) South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano: Oetzi the Iceman and his footwear (verify before publishing) Carter, H. and Mace, A. C., The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen, 1923 to 1933 (verify before publishing) Studies of habitually barefoot populations and foot shape (verify before publishing) #history #humanhistory #explained