it’s marked with deep, wide incisions, and they contain traces of red pigment. The boomerang was clearly made to be used, but it wasn’t purely utilitarian; someone wanted this thing to look cool while it was whizzing through the air.
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PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat - 6mon
Some parts of being human are universal
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Catoblepas - 6mon
I’m pretty sure it was because red stripes make it go faster.
PhilipTheBucket in archaeology
A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/a-mammoth-tusk-boomerang-from-poland-is-40000-years-old/Some parts of being human are universal
I’m pretty sure it was because red stripes make it go faster.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/28660c2c-87e3-49c7-ae33-a612568b486e.webp
(I'm a bit disgusted at how much that turned me on. That's how I know it's a quality turn on tho.)
Happy cake day
Yaay, thx!
Last cake day closer to 2000 than 2050.
go-faster stripes?