More skin in the game

摘要

LEATHERMAKING is an ancient craft. The ¿oldest leather artefact found so far is a 5,500-year-0ld shoe from a cave in Armenia, but paintings in Egyptian tombs show that, 7,000 years ago, leather was being turned into all manner of things, from sandals to buckets to military equipment. It is a fair bet that the use of animal skins for shelter and clothing goes back hundreds of thousands of years at least.