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Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

Generally speaking, ruins should go to [email protected]

Illustrations of the past should go to [email protected]

Photos of the past should go to [email protected]

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[–] veganpizza69 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate the plant-based design

[–] Dicska 8 points 4 days ago

Yeah, it's definitely more comfy than those old bronze soles!

[–] Anticorp 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yet a pair of Nike's doesn't even last a year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well to be fair these probably weren’t made with child labor

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 days ago

I think the odds are quite good that they were.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So 10 000 years of development and we've still not managed to make a pair that doesn't disintegrate in a summer or two?

[–] johannesvanderwhales 5 points 4 days ago

You can't really make a pair of shoes that won't break down, since the nature of soles is that they take a beating. Instead good quality shoes are repairable.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Remind me of

Esparto sandals from the 6th or 5th millennium BC found in Spain

[–] jaaake 6 points 4 days ago

The oldest known footwear was found less than 150mi from Univ. of Oregon, where Nike was initially developed? Iiiiiinteresting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Looking fresh, ngl. Need em for the collection

[–] PugJesus 6 points 5 days ago