INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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,
But according to recent analysis by University of Bologna researcher Sahra Talamo and her colleagues, the boomerang may have been made
mammoth-tusk boomerang is about 72 centimeters long, gently curved, and shaped so that one end is slightly more rounded than the other
shaped and smoothed the boomerang
On the rounded end, a series of diagonal marks would have made the weapon easier to grip
and places coming up with very similar designs to fit similar needs.But critically, according to Talamo and her colleagues, the boomerang is
boomerang itself and estimated an age of 18,000 years
That made them suspect that the boomerang sample may have gotten contaminated by modern carbon somewhere along the way, making it look
layer of cave floor sediment as the boomerang.
