World’s oldest boomerang older than thought, but not Australian

The oldest boomerang in the world is older than it did not think before, throwing 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 considered 40,000 years.

Archaeologists say he was shaped from the defense of a mammoth with an amazing level of competence.

The researchers worked in his form that he had stolen when launched, but would not have returned to the launcher.

It was probably used in hunting, although it could have had a cultural or artistic value, can be used in a sort of ritual.

The ivory mammoth Boomerang was unearthed in the Oblazowa cave in southern Poland.

We originally thought about 30,000 years old. But a new dating with more reliable radiocarbon of human and animal bones found on the site is age between 39,000 and 42,000 years.

“It is the oldest boomerang in the world, and the only one in the world makes this form and so long to find in Poland,” said Dr. Sahra Talamo of the University of Bologna, Italy.

This gives a “remarkable overview” of human behavior, she said, in particular how Homo sapiens living up to 42,000 years ago could shape “such a perfect object” with the knowledge that it could be used to hunt animals.

The boomerang is exceptionally well preserved, with score marks suggesting that it had been polished and carved to be used by a right -handed individual.

Boomerangs are generally associated with Aboriginal culture in Australia.

However, rare discoveries in the historical file outside Australia suggest that they have been used on different continents.

The oldest known boomerang in Australia dates from around 10,500 years ago, made from wood. But the oldest images of boomerangs in Australia are 20,000 -year -old rock paintings, according to the National Museum Australia.

A wooden boomerang dating from 7,000 years has been found in Jutland, a peninsula between Denmark and Germany, while fragments of an Oak Boomerang 2000 -year -old – who returned – was found in the Netherlands.

The search for a team of scientists from Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom is published in the journal Plos One.