The shoe was excavated by archeologists in the western village of Dürrnberg, where rock salt mining took place from as early as the Iron Age, it said in a recent press release...
Archeologists discovered the shoe among other organic remains, including a fragment of a wooden shovel blade, as well as remains of fur with lacing that might have come from a fur hood. The remnants of the shoe’s lacing found preserved were likely made of flax or linen, according to the release. (A kid's US size twelve -- or Euro 30 -- in case you're wondering.)
While I appreciate the archeologists' careful work, etc etc...I had an entirely different take on their discovery.
Observation #1: Our kids were forever losing things that should have stayed connected to them: coats, mittens, socks, shoes and sandals. And inevitably it was just one of the pair. We usually discovered the item was missing at the last minute, when we were headed somewhere, and it was time to put them on. I'm convinced some of these ghost wearables disappeared out the car window while I was driving, based on similar things noticed alongside the road.
But did the girlies know where the missing item(s) were? Nope, they magically disappeared. I can't think of many times that we found them, either.
Observation #2: I can just hear the prehistoric mom about all this -- probably halfway home:
'You left your shoe WHERE? Back in the mine, along with your jacket and shovel?? We don't have time to go back and get them. And I don't have time to make you new shoes and a coat -- what am I going to do with you!?!
Hey, what can you do... just love 'em. No doubt one of our daughters' leather sandals will reappear in a dig hundreds or thousands of years from now. Let the scientists wonder where the other one is!
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