A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating.

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest tool of its kind in the world, archaeologists said. The tusk was found along ...

Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right (Talamo et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https ...

Boomerangs, gracefully curved artifacts used for hunting, are quintessentially Australian. Or so we thought. More than 40,000 years ago, when mammoths still roamed the frigid plains of Ice Age Europe, ...