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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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  • in reply to Autismman

    Well, that hardly seems fair for you - how unlucky.

    Our family were once playing with a plastic frisbee at a countryside picnic; when one person got over excited and unfortunately sent the frisbee (full speed) straight into the bridge of someone's nose. 

    The person was a bit sore and startled, but thankfully the frisbee didn't break their nose.

    (We decided to call time on the frisbee outing - right then - as you can perhaps imagine).

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