Who Invented the Shoe? Scientists Say Footwear May Be More Than 40,000 Years Old shared by Bethel Woods

@Beth · Aug 29, 2025

The oldest record of a human shoe isn’t in China. It’s not in the fertile cresent. It’s in Oregon. We live in a prehistoric place.

Who Invented the Shoe? Scientists Say Footwear May Be More Than 40,000 Years Old

While the oldest footwear dates back only 8 millennia, current research suggests that we’ve been lacing up shoes or sandals for nearly 150,000 years.

discovermagazine.com

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