An unusual mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in a cave in Poland is 40,000 years old — making it Europe's first example of this complex tool and possibly the oldest boomerang in the world, a new study ...

Boomerangs, gracefully curved artifacts used for hunting, are quintessentially Australian. Or so we thought. More than 40,000 years ago, when mammoths still roamed the frigid plains of Ice Age Europe, ...

The boomerang exists in the popular imagination as a playful tool connected with the Aboriginals of Australia, but its oldest known example hails from a cave in southern Poland that was used as a ...

Per the article, only some boomerangs - not this one - loop back toward the thrower. And even those that do look more like a neat trick than anything seen in an actual hunt. Click to expand... So, not ...

The Poland boomerang predates the oldest known Aboriginal throwing sticks from Australia, which are estimated to be about 10,000 years old, according to experts. Photo by Talamo S, Casaccia N, ...

New technology has revealed that an ancient mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in Poland in 1985 is significantly older than archaeologists initially believed. The artifact, discovered in Podhale ...