A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating.

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, ...

Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right (Talamo et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https ...

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 ...

The Boomerang made of mammoth tusk of Obłazowa Cave from layer VIII. Credit must be given to the creator.

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 ...

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 ...

A. Geographical location of Obłazowa Cave in the Podhale basin, western Carpathians (base map from GeoMappApp: www.geomapapp.org); B. View of the western entrance and main entrance of Obłazowa Cave ...