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Бумеранзи су историјски кориштени као оружја за лов, [[Percussion instrument|percussive musical instruments]], battle [[Club (weapon)|clubs]], fire-starters, [[decoy]]s for hunting [[waterfowl]], and as recreational play toys. The smallest boomerang may be less than {{convert|10|cm|in|0}} from tip to tip, and the largest over {{cvt|180|cm|ft|1}} in length.<ref name="Largest">{{cite web |url= http://www.flight-toys.com/boomerang/boomnews/worldslargestboom.html |author= Ted Bailey |title= Worlds Largest Boomerang |publisher= flight-toys.com |access-date= 17 October 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080907071817/http://www.flight-toys.com/boomerang/boomnews/worldslargestboom.html |archive-date= 7 September 2008 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[tribe|Tribal]] boomerangs may be inscribed or painted with designs meaningful to their makers. Most boomerangs seen today are of the tourist or competition sort, and are almost invariably of the returning type. Depictions of boomerangs being thrown at animals, such as kangaroos, appear in some of the oldest rock art in the world, the [[Indigenous Australian art|Indigenous Australian rock art]] of the Kimberly region, which is potentially up to 50,000 years old.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/indigenous-rock-art-could-be-among-oldest-in-world/6906476 |title= Kimberley rock art could be among oldest in the world |website= ABC News AU |access-date= 7 February 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160207211345/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/indigenous-rock-art-could-be-among-oldest-in-world/6906476 |archive-date= 7 February 2016 |url-status= live }}</ref> Stencils and paintings of boomerangs also appear in the rock art of [[Western New Guinea|West Papua]], including on [[Bird's Head Peninsula]] and [[Kaimana]], likely dating to the [[Last Glacial Maximum]], when lower sea levels led to cultural continuity between Papua and [[Arnhem Land]] in Northern Australia.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001355/135558e.pdf |title=Rock Art in West Papua |last=Arifin |first=Karina |publisher=UNESCO Publishing |year=2004 |access-date=20 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235500/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001355/135558e.pdf |archive-date=1 February 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> The oldest surviving [[Australian Aborigines|Australian Aboriginal]] boomerangs come from a cache found in a peat bog in the Wyrie Swamp of [[South Australia]] and date to [[8th millennium BC|10,000 BC]].▼

Although traditionally thought of as Australian, boomerangs have been found also in ancient Europe, Egypt, and North America. There is evidence of the use of non-returning boomerangs by the Native Americans of California and [[Arizona]], and inhabitants of southern [[India]] for killing birds and rabbits.<ref name="Brittanica">{{cite encyclopedia |entry=Boomerang |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |entry-url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/73646/boomerang }}</ref> Some boomerangs were not thrown at all, but were used in [[hand to hand combat]] by [[Indigenous Australians]].<ref>{{cite web |last= Harris |first= Tom |url= http://www.howstuffworks.com/boomerang.htm/printable |title= Battle Boomerangs |publisher= Howstuffworks.com |access-date= 3 March 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100307204702/http://www.howstuffworks.com/boomerang.htm/printable |archive-date= 7 March 2010 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[Ancient Egypt]]ian examples, however, have been recovered, and experiments have shown that they functioned as returning boomerangs.<ref>Rivers, Pitt. "On the Egyptian Boomerang and its Affinities". ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1883. '''12''': 454–463.</ref> Hunting sticks discovered in Europe seem to have formed part of the [[Stone Age]] arsenal of weapons.<ref name="Boomer">{{cite web |url= http://www.rangs.co.uk/boomhistory.htm|title=Boomerang History |publisher= rangs.co.uk |access-date= 17 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070630052119/http://www.rangs.co.uk/boomhistory.htm |archive-date= 30 June 2007 }}</ref> One boomerang that was discovered in [[Obłazowa Cave]] in the [[Carpathian Mountains]] in Poland was made of mammoth's tusk and is believed, based on [[Accelerator mass spectrometry|AMS dating]] of objects found with it, to be about 30,000 years old.<ref>Valde-Nowak ''et al''. (1987). Upper Palaeolithic boomerang made of a mammoth tusk in south Poland. ''Nature'' '''329''': 436–438 (1 October 1987); [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v329/n6138/abs/329436a0.html doi:10.1038/329436a0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206074214/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v329/n6138/abs/329436a0.html |date=6 February 2016 }}.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title= Er fliegt! |journal=Bumerang Welt |year=1995 |url= https://www.bumerangs.de/bw-archiv/95/95103.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071031013513/http://www.bumerangs.de/bw-archiv/95/95103.htm |archive-date=31 October 2007 }}. English translation: "Paleolithic Throwing Object" {{cite web |url= http://www.rediboom.com/englisch/geschich/polen.html |title=Archived copy |access-date= 6 September 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081205065827/http://www.rediboom.com/englisch/geschich/polen.html |archive-date=5 December 2008 }} – Throwing experiments with the Palaeolithic throwing object from the Oblazowa in the Polish Carpathians</ref> In the [[Netherlands]], boomerangs have been found in [[Vlaardingen]] and [[Velsen]] from the first century BC. [[Tutankhamun|King Tutankhamun]], the famous [[Pharaoh]] of ancient Egypt, who died over 3,300 years ago, owned a collection of boomerangs of both the straight flying (hunting) and returning variety.<ref name="Boomer" />▼