Shoes

Ten thousand years of footwear, from Fort Rock sagebrush sandals to carbon-plate supershoes.

6 posts· 8500 BCE – 100 BCE

• Roman caligae, or why the empire marched on hobnails 100 BCE
• Greek krepis and kothornos — the shoe as theater 458 BCE
• Egyptian papyrus sandals — footwear as social code, c. 1500 BCE 1500 BCE
• Ötzi's shoes, or the engineering in a glacier 3300 BCE
• The Areni-1 shoe, and the art of making leather last 3500 BCE
• Fort Rock sandals, the oldest shoes in the world 8500 BCE