As of 2010, the oldest known leather shoe, recovered at the base of a Chalcolithic pit in the cave of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areni" class="extiw" title="w:Areni">Areni-1</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vayots_Dzor_Province" class="extiw" title="w:Vayots Dzor Province">Vayots Dzor</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia" class="extiw" title="w:Armenia">Armenia</a>.
Pinhasi R,  Gasparian B,  Areshian G,  Zardaryan D,  Smith A,  et al. (authors of source article)
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Part of figure 1 from: 2010 First Direct Evidence of Chalcolithic Footwear from the Near Eastern Highlands. PLoS ONE 5(6): e10984. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010984">10.1371/journal.pone.0010984</a>