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World's oldest boomerang - found in Poland

DormouseAtRest_25

When I was a young person; I enjoyed learning how to successfully use an Australian boomerang (...very early morning on the local recreation ground ...before other people were around to, erm!, "experience" any of my earliest attempts / mishaps!).

I was intrigued by this BBC article describing:

- a 40,000 year old mammoth ivory boomerang (the size of a baseball bat)

- found, 1985, in a cave within Poland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cren818q5x1o

For the referenced journals PLOS One article (used by authors who want to make their research available and discoverable for all):

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324911

Talamo S, Casaccia N, Richards MP, Wacker L, Tassoni L, et al. (2025) Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland. PLOS ONE 20(6): e0324911. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324911

Anyone else ever had any experience of using a boomerang?

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  • DormouseAtRest_25 said:
    Anyone else ever had any experience of using a boomerang?

    Yes, but only as a deeply disappointing human version of fetch. :)

  • in reply to Bunny
    Bunny said:
    a deeply disappointing human version of fetch.

    Oh, no! That is a real pity. 

    Fortunate for (short at the time) me, I had access to a very tall male relative - who was good sport about the early morning practice sessions, plus, he was already good with a boomerang - which helped (I could watch what to do). 

    He used to stand directly behind me and demonstrate the technique (he would catch it's return, then the next throw; it was for me to copy the idea, as best I could).

    The other advantage of someone tall stood directly behind me - he could, from a standing spot: fairly easily field / mashal / wrangle mid-air - any of my earliest errant returns ...thereby, avoiding either of us taking a hit by mistake!

    I think his approach definitely helped me build the necessary technique and confidence.

    I think I still have my original boomerang - I shall check my storage box from that era - photo to follow (another day, subject to it being found).

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  • in reply to Bunny
    Bunny said:
    a deeply disappointing human version of fetch.

    Oh, no! That is a real pity. 

    Fortunate for (short at the time) me, I had access to a very tall male relative - who was good sport about the early morning practice sessions, plus, he was already good with a boomerang - which helped (I could watch what to do). 

    He used to stand directly behind me and demonstrate the technique (he would catch it's return, then the next throw; it was for me to copy the idea, as best I could).

    The other advantage of someone tall stood directly behind me - he could, from a standing spot: fairly easily field / mashal / wrangle mid-air - any of my earliest errant returns ...thereby, avoiding either of us taking a hit by mistake!

    I think his approach definitely helped me build the necessary technique and confidence.

    I think I still have my original boomerang - I shall check my storage box from that era - photo to follow (another day, subject to it being found).

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