In the 1980s, archaeologists discovered a well-preserved, curved boomerang made from a mammoth tusk in a cave in Poland. They later tried to estimate the crescent-shaped ivory artifact’s age using ...

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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 ...

The boomerang exists in the popular imagination as a playful tool connected with the Aboriginals of Australia, but its oldest known example hails from a cave in southern Poland that was used as a ...