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  2. Australian Aboriginal artefacts - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] The term 'returning boomerang' is used to distinguish between ordinary boomerangs and the small percentage which, when thrown, will return to its thrower. [13] [14] The oldest wooden boomerang artefact known in Australia, excavated from the Wyrie Swamp, South Australia in 1973, is estimated to be 9,500 years old. [11] Boomerangs could ...

  3. Hunting in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Boomerangs have been used as a hunting tool by Aboriginal Peoples for tens of thousands of years. [citation needed] The way a hunter tends to use a boomerang is to rustle tree branches, causing the birds inside to be startled and fly into nets that the hunter had already set up between trees. Contrary to popular belief, Aboriginal hunting ...

  4. Throwing stick - Wikipedia

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    Throwing baton of a Guanche mencey (king). The ancient Egyptians used throwing sticks to hunt small game and waterfowl, as seen in several wall paintings. The 18th-dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun was a known lover of duck hunting and used the throwing stick in his hunts, and a number of throwing sticks were found in the tombs of pharaohs.

  5. Hunting weapon - Wikipedia

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    Each new evolution of hunting weapons extended the range and accuracy; a skilled hunter, with suitable equipment and good conditions, can take game at ranges of over 1,000 meters (1 km). [ 3 ] Another hunting weapon, based on different principles than the spear, is the throwing stick .

  6. Native American weaponry - Wikipedia

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    Cutting weapons were used by the Native Americans for combat as well as hunting. Tribes in North America preferred shorter blades and did not use long cutting weapons like the swords that the Europeans used at the time. Knives were used as tools for hunting and other chores, like skinning animals. Knives consisted of a blade made of stone, bone ...

  7. This Denver woman’s savings account was accessed, drained of ...

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    This Denver woman’s savings account was accessed, drained of a whopping $7,363 by a scammer — but the bank first ruled the transactions were legit.

  8. Bolas - Wikipedia

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    The weapon is usually used to entangle the animal's legs, but when thrown with enough force might even inflict damage (e.g. breaking a bone). Traditionally, Inuit have used bolas to hunt birds, fouling the birds in air with the lines of the bola. People of a Feather showed Belcher Island Inuit using bolas to hunt eider ducks on the wing. [3]

  9. Boomerang (countermeasure) - Wikipedia

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    Boomerang then computes the direction a bullet is coming from, distance above the ground and range to the shooter in less than one second. Users receive simultaneous visual and auditory information on the point of fire from an LED 12-hour clock image display panel and speaker mounted inside the vehicle.