Earliest Shoe-Wearers Revealed By Toe Bones

Discovery News ^ | 1-25-2008 | Jennifer Viegas

[C210N]

The evolution of footware really took off around the time of the invention of the shoe salesman.

[donna]

Is it eczema or more like tiny itchy blisters?

[Ditter]

I certainly understand, I have some weird and scary allergic reactions that curtail my life. But what ya gonna do, you learn to live with them.

[patton]

The doctors say “atopic dermititus” - eczema - and yes, tiny itchy blisters that grow.

[colorado tanker]

You really have to wonder what civilizations could have predated the Egyptians or Sumerians, but simply didn’t build with a material that lasted long enough for us to find their traces

I saw a movie depicting that. It was an amazing civilization - all the women were as hot as Victoria Vetri.

[patton]

Exactly. And, let’s face it, maybe God meant for me to just be a barefoot neanderthal - I dunno.

;)

[Ditter]

hummmmm..... are you a redhead?

[patton]

Red beard. My son is a full-fledged redhead. In my case, born white blond, turned mouse brown overnight when I was twelve.

Like a deer.

My younger son did the exact same thing, it was wierd to watch.

[donna]

In the summer, when my hands get hot, I get tiny blisters between my fingers that itch enough to make me cry.

If I rinse my hands with “Distilled extract of Witch Hazel- Alcohol 14%”, within a half hour the itch is gone the blisters start disappearing.

It was a miracle find for me. It doesn’t prevent the blisters but now I can deal with it.

[Ditter]

My husband has your coloring but now he is totally white again. Ya’ll are Neanderthals, I’m sure of it.

[patton]

And THAT reinforces an idea I have been nurturing for years - I think that I am allergic to my own sweat.

Which would explain why the which hazel works for you.

And why shoes don’t work for me.

[patton]

Exactly. I am convinced of it, too. Just waiting for the next ice age, so I can be comfortable...

[donna]

Could be!

[blam]

"You really have to wonder what civilizations could have predated the Egyptions or Sumarians, but simply didn’t build with a material that lasted long enough for us to find their traces

.Those are underwater.

[blam]

"Ya’ll are Neanderthals, I’m sure of it."

There you go...I think you solved it.

[maine-iac7]

"Some individuals even today still don't wear shoes and live in very cold environments, such as in the hills of Eastern Bulgaria and Romania," he said.

and white-haired ole grannys sitting at computers in the very cold state of Maine

[patton]

I don’t mind being called a neanderthal, I mind being called some sort of dirty liberal hippy.

I mean, just because I am so conservitive that I have not adapted to SHOES - does not make me a liberal.

And yes, we heat our house with fire, thankyouverymuch!

heheheh.

[Captain Pike]

But, the world is only 4000 year old....

[Dreagon]

Yeah, I read that back during the last Ice Age the Black Sea was a fresh water inland lake that was much smaller than it is today, and the Mediterannian was also much lower in water level.

Then when the Ice Age ended, the Med started filling up and then broke through and filled up what is now the Black Sea. Since civilizations tend to hug shorelines, they ought to calculate where those ancient shorelines were, and then dive down there and start checking things out.

[patton]

Humans live on the edge - when the tiger comes, run in the water.

When the shark comes, run on the land.

That is why waterfront property is STILL so valuable.