Europeans first to use footwear 9k-38kya. Sandals discovered in #Spain cave. #history #evolution
Channel: Eric Dondero, Right-Anthro & Human Origins
Date: 2023-09-30

Footprints discovered in a French cave near #Dordogne in 2021, showed Gravettians were using footwear.  And now researchers confirm dates for a pair of sandals discovered in a bat cave to be ~9,000 years old.  They were likely made by the Solutreans or their descendants, the Magdalenian population. This is double confirmation, Europeans were the first Humans to use footwear. Researchers say production of the footwear required precision and technical skill.  Europeans ahead of all other cultures around the globe by 1000s of years.