The first shoes

Have you ever thought about what the earliest human kind of shoes? To pursue this question, must be traced back to tens of thousands of years ago. In the far south coast of Africa, the Indian Ocean not far from the West River estuary carats, with numerous caves clouds, it is learned there was homosapienssapiens , the first community. In order to adapt to harsh environment, early humans invented clothing - mostly through the preserved animal skins. In order to protect the soles of the feet, they came up with the easiest, quickest way is to hand grabbed anything , with a cane or a tough long hay in the foot. Early in the "shoes" may not be beautiful, but very practical.

After a long test, the invention of the "sandals." This is the oldest man made a shoe with, it is basically two forms: one is a palm, papyrus or grass plaiting and rings made with plant fiber, set in the toes. From North America, to the Klamath Indians, the early history of rock people living there, these shoes can be found everywhere. The second form of sandals earlier processed from a piece of leather cut along the top edge of the hole, then put on a belt, the belt can be the same as the rope taut, pull the shoes in place. Mark in Peru Lupaqiaka mountain ravine in the Andes, the mummy in a tomb excavated this most ancient sandals. It is estimated that only sandals with almost a thousand years of history, the production of materials used are llama skin.

How could the same sandals away to find a place so remote it? Some anthropologists believe that with the Earth's climate change, mass migration of primitive man settled in all corners of the earth, the people they encounter along the way there a way copy the shoes. According to available raw materials, and changes with the seasons to experience the weather, learn from elsewhere has been to improve the design. Many of the earliest of the sandals are made of plant material used, suffered wind and rain damage to the invasion soon, then we can where it to find clues to sandals? Interestingly, the oldest picture of a sandal is also related to the earliest known examples of Egyptian writing. This five thousand years of history carved in stone this Indianapolis Hera Koehler "Eagle City" found in the temple. Side of the stone is to punish a bad king is kneeling enemy, the other side of the king is not to march barefoot across the ten heads of the body. But no matter where the king went, there is a dwarf-like servant followed him, holding a pair of fancy sandals king. This pair of sandals may represent the power of the king Namo.

Over the next fifteen hundred years, the Egyptians developed their special hieroglyphics. 1334 BC, nine, Tutankhamun became king of Egypt, already in the records of a "sandals," the pictograph, shaped like an oval with two laces. Nine years later, King Tut died, his body was made into a mummy, funerary objects in the, there have been three thousand years ago exquisite sandals. His subjects believe that these shoes will help the king continue his journey to the afterlife. One pair of sandals with gold production of tapered tip; made another pair Zeyi papyrus, a leather ankle straps, decorated with a rich imagination of the Nile landscape patterns.