A recent study has unearthed fascinating insights into Australia’s indigenous history through the examination of a unique 19th-century boomerang. This unusual artifact, which dates back to the 1800s, ...

A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the hardwood objects were used to shape the edges of stone tools used by Australian Indigenous communities. The research ...

Eva Francesca Martellotta received funding from the 2021 EXARC Experimental Archaeology Award. Michelle Langley is a Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at ...

Boomerangs, gracefully curved artifacts used for hunting, are quintessentially Australian. Or so we thought. More than 40,000 years ago, when mammoths still roamed the frigid plains of Ice Age Europe, ...