Areni-1 shoe
Zapato de Areni-1
- Date
- c. 3500 BCE (hallado en 2008) · confidence medium
- Place
- Areni-1 cave, Vayots Dzor, Armenia
- Credited to
- Diana Zardaryan
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A one-piece leather shoe, the oldest known piece of leather footwear, found in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave in Armenia and dated to about 5,500 years old.
What it led to
- Study of prehistoric leather tanning
- Textile and leather archaeology in the Caucasus
- Preservation techniques in dry caves
- History of footwear