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Boomerang found in Poland may be oldest ever reported
An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in ...
Greek Reporter12h
40,000-Year-Old Boomerang Found in Europe May Be Oldest Ever Found
Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...
ZME Science on MSN11h
The world’s oldest boomerang is even older than we thought, but it’s not Australian
When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...
Live Science on MSN2d
Stone Age boomerang is oldest in Europe — and possibly the world
A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The World's Oldest Boomerang Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought, a New Analysis Suggests - Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers initially found the two-foot-long boomerang in 1985 while excavating the Obłazowa Cave in southern Poland. Nearby, they also unearthed animal bones, antler tools, a snail shell ...
EL PAÍS English1d
Boomerang carved from mammoth tusk shows ‘Homo sapiens’ had symbolic thinking 42,000 years ago
The new dating of an object found decades ago in Poland reinforces the idea that early humans in Central Europe had ...
The Independent2d
Archaeologists discover what could be world’s oldest boomerang – not in Australia but in Poland - The Independent
The previously oldest-known wooden boomerang came from the Wyrie Swamp in South Australia. It was dated to about 10,000 years ago, researchers, including from Jagiellonian University in Poland, ...