by A Mammut -Tusk artifact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of boomerang and even the oldest tool in this kind of world, said archaeologists.
The tusks were found together with an apparently human little finger or toe bone fossil in the Obłazowa cave in Poland, and it could be almost 40,000 years old, according to a study published in the magazine Plos one.
The oldest known wood boomerang came from the Wyrie swamp in South Australia. It was dated about 10,000 years ago, researchers said, also of the Jagiellon University in Poland.
One of the earliest wooden throwing rocks in Europe was discovered in Schöningen in Northern Germany and covered around 300,000 years.
In the southeast of Australia, prehistoric aborigines use different types of such curved sticks for hunting birds, fish and small mammals.
Various types of “uninvested boomerangs” were also found in Central Australia. These were used for various tasks, such as “Animals Battle, Graben or pitches cooked, hot ashes from the cooking of battle bodies, retouching from stone weapons and even musical sounds”. This shows the importance of boomerangs as versatile instruments for different cultural and economic contexts.
While most old boomerangs have usually consisted of wood, mainly in Australia, the new find from ivory underlines the ingenuity of our early homo sapiens Ancestors.
The researchers found that it was similar to the “Queensland type of Australian boomerangs”, with experiments pointing out that it could fly as a “non-returned boomerang”.
Markings about boomerang offer cultural context decision homo sapiens Groups in Europe.
The discovery of boomerang together with artifacts such as a trailer also underlines an emerging regional artistic identity 40,000 years ago.
“This corresponds to the different regional traditions in Europe such as the ivory figures and flutes of the Swabian Jura,” said the researchers.
Archaeologists suspect that this can indicate a shamanistic ritual, together with the boomerang in the Obłazowa cave.
“This interpretation draws parallels to rock arts for human hands with missing digits on the Iberian Peninsula and France,” they said.
The results offer insights into the early technological innovations for human human innovation and underline the creative solutions that have been developed for their needs over time.
“The results not only deepen our understanding of homo sapiens“Adaptive strategies, but the nuanced interaction of technology, symbolism and environmental interaction in the earliest phases of human spread in Central Europe,” concluded the study.
