Posted on 06/28/2025 7:54:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The world's oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time.
The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be 40,000 years old.
Archaeologists say it was fashioned from a mammoth's tusk with an astonishing level of skill.
Researchers worked out from its shape that it would have flown when thrown, but would not have come back to the thrower.
It was probably used in hunting, though it might have had cultural or artistic value, perhaps being used in some kind of ritual.
...new, more reliable radiocarbon dating of human and animal bones found at the site puts the age at between 39,000 and 42,000 years old.
The boomerang is exceptionally well preserved, with score marks suggesting it had been polished and carved for use by a right-handed individual.
Boomerangs are generally associated with Aboriginal culture in Australia.
However, rare finds in the historical record outside Australia suggest they were used across different continents.
The oldest known boomerang from Australia dates to about 10,500 years ago, made from wood. But the oldest images of boomerangs in Australia are rock art paintings 20,000 years old, according to National Museum Australia.
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That’s more of your troll nonsense, and not surprisingly, not from a scientific source.
LOL. Or “factory second”.
Good ones will circle back *a bit* if they miss the target. The alternative is, a hunting tool that took time to craft has to be hunted *for*.
People still hunt with throwing clubs quite successfully.
Suit yourself.
By any chance, do you also subscribe to the theory of (macro) evolution?
On biblical guidance, all humans descended from one man: Adam, with another bottleneck at Noah. Are you down with this? Or no.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
Gnaremoob?
As I’ve said to you before, under one of your many other nicks, try chopping up your meds and snorting them, they’ll be more potent that way.
I’m stealing that.
I remember hearing that on the radio back then. First thing I thought of when I saw the headline on this story, in fact.
“Why do I always get a warped one?”
Well, it it was shaped like a boomerang, I suppose you could shoot around corners....
Sometimes a pointy curved stick is just a pointy curved stick..
Don’t tell Charlie Drake; he tried to warn us.
My brother and I like “boomerang jokes.” Jokes you throw out there and people scratch their heads over. …Until it hits ‘em later!
My luddite friend throwing a replica he made:
https://youtu.be/XK-cAcCIkUo?feature=shared
Bad to the broken bone.
Thor threw it away. That’s why you found it. “P.O.S. is now a museum piece, lol” said Thor.
He alsi is quoted saying “Yea, all my clay pots are crap too, that’s why the dump is full of clay shards. Si tired of eating and drinking from my hands.”
List proves a lot of the posts here are about throwbacks to an earlier era.
Laugh In joke:
“I’m worried that I’m starting to forget things lately.”
“Just write notes on a boomerang. It will all come back to you.”
what “other nicks”
being that there aren’t any
* hunting
* cultural object
* artistic piece
* ritual object
* garbage disposal cleaner
* Mastodon toothpickhat *hat rack *back scratcher
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