Ancient Technology

Everyone knows that the boomerang eventually returns after being thrown. Though this ancient weapon itself cannot return to the past, it can bring a remarkable history to modern times. Ironically, this tool, inextricably linked to Australia, was one of the artifacts excavated during an archaeological dig in Poland in 1985. Not long after the 1985 find, Pawel Valde-Nowak, Professor of Archaeology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, theorized that the boomerang was from the Pavlovian culture that existed in the area between 30,000 and 23,000 years ago. If his theory were true, the Polish boomerang would be the world’s oldest known boomerang. The boomerang was discovered in Oblasowa Cave in southern Poland. The researchers later estimated its age at approximately