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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 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 t…
A boomerang is a throwing stick that returns to the thrower, so a boomerang that doesn't is an oxymoron and a throwing stick.
Boomerang can be returning or non returning . Etymology in both the language of Dharwal and in English indicate it has been used from the start to include non returning ones as well. there has been strong efforts to make it only to returning ones (official competitions do not allow throwing sticks for example ) the inclusive use however is still quite active . Webster defines it explicitly without the return part ( h…
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Boomerang can be returning or non returning . Etymology in both the language of Dharwal and in English indicate it has been used from the start to include non returning ones as well. there has been strong efforts to make it only to returning ones (official competitions do not allow throwing sticks for example ) the inclusive use however is still quite active . Webster defines it explicitly without the return part ( h…
Q: Then why not just call it a "throwing stick" and move on? A: Because throwing sticks that return are cooler than those that don't. Analysis: Click bait.
Not all throwing sticks are the same, these early sticks glided some distance, they are not same as spear which is what comes to most people's mind when you describe them as throwing sticks.
If the bar for click bait is so low, then we should only read peer-reviewed, edited academic journals which are not top tier (i.e. not Science/Nature etc) for driest factual titles.