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, ...

The Poland boomerang predates the oldest known Aboriginal throwing sticks from Australia, which are estimated to be about 10,000 years old, according to experts. Photo by Talamo S, Casaccia N, ...

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French fashion house Chanel has provoked accusations of cultural appropriation with its latest accessory: a boomerang with a price tag of about $1,500. Boomerangs are an important symbol of ...

Chanel is at the centre of a cultural appropriation storm after it was accused of "humiliating" aboriginal Australians by selling a boomerang as part of its latest collection. The £1,130 wood and ...

(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 ...

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 war. Now, scientists think ...

I OBSERVE a letter in NATURE (vol. xiii., p. 168) asking for information about the “boomerang.” I have now taken the occasion of a number of the aboriginal natives of this district being here with me ...

An Aboriginal Australian man says that Qantas staff members are 'cursed' for touching his ceremonial boomerangs in the Brisbane airport – and probably doubly so after they refused to let him take them ...