A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old The boomerang is a one-of-a-kind find from the last place archaeologists expected.

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It's curved, made of mammoth tusk but doesn't come back when it's thrown! Find out more about the world's oldest boomerang!

Credit: Talamo et al, CC-BY 4.0 An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in Poland decades ago may be the oldest one ...

The crescent-shaped boomerang was carved from a mammoth tusk by hunter-gatherers some 40,000 years ago, according to new research. Talamo et al., PLOS ONE, 2025 In the 1980s, archaeologists ...

Details of the boomerang. Credit: Talamo et al., 2025, PLOS One The boomerang, made from a valuable material like mammoth ivory and transported from another location (no carving fragments were found ...

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The world's oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now ...

Prof. Sahra Talamo in the center, with Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak is on her left, and Prof. Adam Nadachowski on her right. Author countries: Italy, Canada, Switzerland ...

(CN) — A boomerang made from a mammoth’s tusk pulled from a Polish cave could be one of the oldest known examples of a complex tool found in Europe, according to a research study published in PLOS One ...