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"It gives a "remarkable insight" into human behaviour, she said, particularly how Homo sapiens living as long as 42,000 years ago could shape "such a perfect ob

"It gives a "remarkable insight" into human behaviour, she said, particularly how Homo sapiens living as long as 42,000 years ago could shape "such a perfect object" with the knowledge it could be used to hunt animals." It's a heavy object that you throw, shaped better to fit your hand as opposed to a rock. It's not that complicated. Also, most boomerangs (throwing sticks) aren't made to return to the thrower cause that would be a bad thing.

rmunn 1y ago
To expand on that last sentence for anyone who doesn't know, a well-shaped hunting boomerang is meant to fly in a straight line, faster and farther than throwing a similarly-heavy stick that you just picked up off the ground. Which lets you hit targets (such as the animals that you're hunting) from farther away with more accuracy. If it's designed to return to you, it must necessarily fly in a curve, which makes it a lot harder to hit a target than a stick designed to fly in a straight line (and if you do hit a target, it's not going to return to you as it expends its kinetic energy on the target).
crotho 1y ago
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