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At the Site Entrance [Mediterranean Pottery] Late Chalcolithic | Early Bronze Age Archaeological Site in Armenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areni-1_cave

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Areni-1 shoe, Vayots Dzor province, Armenia,

A 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave.

It is a one-piece leather-hide shoe, the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world known to contemporary researchers. 

While small, approximately a woman's U.S. and Canada size 7, European size 37, or UK size 6, he stated that "the shoe could well have fitted a man from that era". The shoe laces were preserved as well.

The discovery was made by an international team led by Boris Gasparyan, an archaeologist from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

ARENI CAVE: 

THE Areni Cave is a multicomponent cave site with artifacts dating from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age. In Armenia, the Areni Cave complex is also known as "Birds’ Cave" ("Trchuneri" in Armenian). Located near the town of Areni, which lies close to the Arpa River and the Gnishik River in Armenia’s central Vayots Dzor Province, the caves are the site at which archaeologists have discovered what is likely the world’s oldest winery, and ancient human brain, the remnants of a 5,000-year-old skirt made of straw, and the world’s oldest leather shoe. 

The first discovery of artifacts took place in 1997 CE by Boris Gasparian. Successive excavations have continued since that time, and they will continue into the future. The Areni Cave complex is one of the few caves in the Caucasus that is classified as “karstic” with a thick sediment sequence.

Areni-1 cave complex.

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Areni, Armenia.

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Kodak Portra 160

Areni, Armenia.