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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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, ...
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Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland (IMAGE)
The Boomerang made of mammoth tusk of Obłazowa Cave from layer VIII. Talamo et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 ...