{{Short description|Prehistoric artifact found in Norway}} {{Infobox artifact | image = Bronsealderskoen.jpg | material =[[Leather]] | created ={{circa}} 1450 BC | discovered_place = [[Norway]] | discovered_date = 2006 }}
The '''Jotunheimen shoe''' is a [[leather]] [[shoe]] discovered in an ice patch in the [[Jotunheimen]] Mountains in eastern [[Norway]].<ref name="Nesje Pilø Finstad Solli ">{{cite journal | last=Nesje | first=Atle | last2=Pilø | first2=Lars Holger | last3=Finstad | first3=Espen | last4=Solli | first4=Brit | last5=Wangen | first5=Vivian | last6=Ødegård | first6=Rune Strand | last7=Isaksen | first7=Ketil | last8=Støren | first8=Eivind N. | last9=Bakke | first9=Dag Inge | last10=Andreassen | first10=Liss M | title=The climatic significance of artefacts related to prehistoric reindeer hunting exposed at melting ice patches in southern Norway | journal=The Holocene | volume=22 | issue=4 | date=2011 | issn=0959-6836 | doi=10.1177/0959683611425552 | pages=485–496}}</ref>
==Dating== The shoe, discovered in August 2006, was originally dated to around 1000 CE, but subsequent testing revealed it to be at least three thousand years old. Archaeologists now estimate that the shoe was made between 1800 and 1100 BCE, making it the oldest article of clothing discovered in [[Scandinavia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Solholm |first=Rolleiv |date=2007-05-02 |title=Old shoe - even older |url=https://www.norwaypost.no/index.php/culture/13871 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105223112/http://www.norwaypost.no:80/index.php/culture/13871 |archive-date=2015-01-05 |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=The Norway Post |language=en-gb}}</ref>
==Related discoveries== It was discovered along with several [[arrow|arrows]] and a wooden [[spade]], leading archaeologists to conclude that they had unearthed an important [[hunting|hunting ground]] that had seen continued use for a long period of time. One such object also discovered was a 6,100 year old [[Projectile point|arrowhead]], the oldest object discovered in an ice patch in Norway.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Specktor |first=Brandon |date=2022-06-03 |title=Oldest shoe in Norway, dating to 3,000 years ago, recovered from melting ice patch |url=https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-shoe-norway-ice-patch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728222432/https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-shoe-norway-ice-patch |archive-date=2023-07-28 |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=livescience.com |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Europe-archaeology-stub}} [[Category:Germanic archaeological artifacts]] [[Category:Historical footwear]] [[Category:Archaeological discoveries in Norway]] [[Category:2nd-millennium BC works]] [[Category:2006 archaeological discoveries]]