[1] It is a one-piece leather-hide shoe, the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world known to contemporary researchers.

The discovery was made by an international team led by Boris Gasparyan, an archaeologist from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (co-directors of the project are Ron Pinhasi from University College Cork in Ireland, and Gregory Areshian from UCLA).

[2] An Armenian post-graduate student, Diana Zardaryan, discovered the leather shoe during the course of excavations by a team of archeologists from Armenia's Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Ireland and the United States.

Large storage containers were found in the same cave, many of which held well-preserved wheat, barley, and apricots, as well as other edible plants.

[7] Major similarities exist between the manufacturing technique and style of one-piece leather-hide shoes discovered across Europe and the one reported from Areni-1 Cave, suggesting that shoes of this type were worn for millennia across a large and environmentally diverse geographic region.