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, ...
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 ...
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.