Armenia. Footwear and Archaeology

Archeologists have found out in Armenia, in a cave of Areni the oldest footwear of the period энеолита, so-called «charuh» which is dated 3600-3500 BC, the director of institute of archeology and ethnography of National Academy of sciences of Armenia Pavel Avetisjan at press conference in the International press centre "News" has informed on Friday.

"Charuh" sewed from one piece leather. It was the accessible type of footwear from a pigleather or a horned cattle leather. The strongest were charuh from a leather of an old bull.

According to the archeologist, it is an all-important find - completely saved artefact that seldom happens in archaeological practice.

«That fact is interesting that between the found artefact and its modern analogues which were carried by our grandfathers, there is no distinction as on quality, and to drawing», - Avetisjan has told.

He has noticed that it allows to generate complete submission concerning quality and a method of processing, up to features of their production.

Avetisyan has noticed that it is the oldest archeological find from all kinds of footwear which have been found out in Old World territory.

The Armenian archeologists have found out in the south of the country, in a cave of "Areni-1" a unique complex of an epoch of the Stone Age and энеолита, dated 3900-3700 years B.C.

During control excavation in a cave of "Areni-1" the unique complex of an epoch of the Stone Age and eneolit with pise-walled structures has been opened. Uniqueness of opening consisted that thanks to a microclimate existing there organic materials were saved. In a cave scraps of a fabric, a wool and other materials, stones and even grapes pulp, and also a skull with the rests of brain fabrics are found out