The first renaissance happened about 35,000 years BCE. Wouldn't you love to know why?
The advent of footwear occurred during a period Professor Trinkaus describes as 'a well-documented archaeological explosion' which also produced a number of other notable human advances.Brilliant detective work. Smaller little toe bones in fossils is a marker for shoe wear.
Paul Mellars, professor of prehistory and human evolution at the University of Cambridge, UK, agrees there were 'dramatic changes' in human behaviour at this time. 'From 35,000 years ago onward, you see the first art, the first stone tools, and the first personal decorations and jewellery.'
More advanced shoe-making skills could have been a product of this overall increase in technological ingenuity.
'There is a strong hint that people were doing more complicated things with ...skins, with special stone tools for cleaning and awls for piercing.
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