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Maciej BiernackiThe world’s oldest boomerang is older than they thought before, throwing a new light on the ingenuity of the people who live at the time.
It is believed that the tool found in a cave in Poland in 1985 is considered 40,000 years.
Archaeologists say it was made of mammoth tusk with a strange skill level.
The researchers worked out of her form that she would fly if they threw, but would not return to the thrower.
It was probably used in hunting, though it could have cultural or artistic value, possibly using in some ritual.
Talamo et al., 2025, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0The mammoth of the ivory was excavated in the Ovalzov cave in southern Poland.
Initially, it was considered about 30,000 years. But the new, more reliable radio -carbon dates of human and animal bones found at this place puts ages within 39,000 to 42,000 years.
“This is the oldest boomerang in the world, and the only one in this form, and it can be found for a long time in Poland,” said D -R -Sahra Talam of Bologna, Italy.
It gives a “wonderful understanding” of human behavior, especially as Homo Sapiens, who lives up to 42,000 years ago, can form “such a perfect object” with the knowledge it can be used to hunt animals.
Boomerang is exclusively preserved, and the marks believe that it was polished and cut for use by right hand.
Talamo et al., 2025, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0Boomerangs are usually associated with Aboriginal Culture in Australia.
However, rare findings in historical record outside Australia believe they were used on different continents.
The oldest famous boomerang from Australia dates from about 10 500 years ago made of wood. But the oldest images of boomerang in Australia are paintings for stone art 20,000, reports the National Museum of Australia.
In Juteland, the peninsula between Denmark and Germany, a wooden boomerang was found 7000 years old, while fragments of the 2000-year-old oak boomen-who really returned to the Netherlands was found.
A study by a team of scientists from Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and the UK was published in the magazine PLOS ONE.
