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.
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 discovered ...