Abstract
During the past year the Arizona State Museum has been conducting extensive archaeological investigations within the eighty acres of Tucson's urban renewal area (Ayres 1968). This problem oriented archaeological salvage project is unique not only in its geographic size, but in the quantity of artifacts being recovered. Among the numerous items excavated from latrines, wells, and trash areas are the remains of hundreds of boots and shoes. Archaeologists digging in post-1850 frontier and nonaborginal sites should ex pect to find a great deal of leather, principally shoe leather. However, an ex amination of the literature reveals that to a great extent shoe remains from such sites have been disregarded, glossed over, simply categorized as soles or uppers, or discarded as too fragmentary to handle. This source of archaeological data has been ignored. With careful study, shoes, even in a fragmentary condition, can be a source of chronological, technological, and economic information.
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