Five rare "non-returning" boomerangs found in a dry riverbed in South Australia were probably used hundreds of years ago by the Aborigines to hunt waterbirds, according to a new study. A new analysis ...

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, ...

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 ...

When thrown properly, boomerangs can be lethal weapons. In fact, cave paintings in Australia show that they've been used as such for thousands of years, during hunting and battle. Now, scientists ...

DOCKLANDS, Australia-- When the Kaurna Boomerangs left Adelaide, Australia, in January of 2020, bound for a hockey tour against First Nations teams in Northern Alberta, it was a bit of a shock to the ...

(Phys.org)—A team led by Michael Westaway, an anthropologist with Australia's Griffith University, has found evidence that suggests a skeleton found protruding from an Australian riverbank two years ...