Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to depict Indigenous hunters throwing the weapons at prey, including kangaroos.

A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

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 with what seemed like a human little finger or toe bone fossil at the Obłazowa cave in Poland,