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The exact moment when shoes and footwear in general were invented is not known, but there are clear indications that ancient civilisations that preceded us by about six thousand years already used them: Chaldeans, Assyrians and Sumerians knew and used diverse forms of footwear.

But there are three possible motives to develop any sort of shoes: mechanical protection for your feet, protection from intense cold, or ornamentation. These were always the main reasons to invent all sorts and types of footwear that we ever used.

Mechanical protection from cutting or abrasive things on the soil like rocks and plants could have been one of the motives for the development of footwear among the cultures of the half-moon of the middle east, around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. However, it is unlikely that they were the first humans ever to use shoes, boots or sandals; instead, we have to look farther and further in time for answers: humans had to survive several glacial eras over a n extended period of time.

It has been established as a scientific fact that primitive humans evolved rapidly around two million years ago, developing a much bigger cerebral capacity. From then on, survival odds of the human species and these hominids augmented significantly.

These ancestors of today's humans began constructing all sorts of tools and weapons such as hammers, axes, spears, bows and arrows with which they could defend themselves and hunt. The produce of the hunt were not trophies but raw materials for their survival, like food, furs and skin.

When they encountered their first ice age, then it is the moment when footwear appeared.These humans were hunters and gatherers, nomadic in their ways. They had to track down and persecute their preys over extended regions with bad weather and very cold temperatures in many cases.

In fact, it is thought that the first humans that crossed from Asia to America did so over what is now the Bering strait, then covered with ice and binding Kamchatka with Alaska. No matter how used to walking barefoot on ice these people were, some physical and physiological aspects must be considered: humans never evolved in a special way to withstand the contact between ice and skin for long. Tissues get hurt, and frostbite then takes its toll.

So they should have had some kind of self-made protection for their cold feet, and indeed, that means footwear. So survival of mankind probably depended more on intelligence than any other physical adaptation thorough the long but simple work of evolution: we have no indication of any sort of particular genetic adaptations in humans to survive freezing temperatures.

In other words, these humans would not have been able to walk the distances that we know the did walk under terrible conditions nude or without any sort of protection; so decidedly, footwear was invented because of their cold feet.

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