An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in Poland decades ago may be the oldest one ever reported. In their study ...

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, ...

The crescent-shaped boomerang was carved from a mammoth tusk by hunter-gatherers some 40,000 years ago, according to new research. Talamo et al., PLOS ONE, 2025 In the 1980s, archaeologists discovered ...

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 ...