![]() ![]() Roman legionary sandal 1st century AD (DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach).Ĭow's Mouth shoe 16th century (DLM - German Leather Museum in Offenbach). Made from plants they are 8,300 years old. The oldest actual footwear was a pair of sandals unearthed by archaeologists from the Arnold Research Cave in Missouri, USA. The upper (outer shoe) was made of deerskin with hair side facing out as protection against moisture and the sole was made of bearskin with hair side facing inside, offering excellent heat retention properties.īut the earliest representation of people wearing shoes is believed to be the drawings of hunters found in the Altamira Cave in Spain dating back about 15,000 years. This shoe structure was surprisingly complex. The famous footwear from the glacier mummy Ötzi is about 5,300 years old. Estimated to be 5,500 years old - between the Neolithic and Bronze Age - the shoe is made from one piece of cowhide with a grass lining. ![]() It's not known when leather was first used to make shoes but the earliest find was excavated by archaeologists in an Armenian cave in 2010. ![]()
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