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  2. Australian Aboriginal artefacts - Wikipedia

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    Most Aboriginal artefacts were multi-purpose and could be used for a variety of different occupations. Spears, clubs, boomerangs and shields were used generally as weapons for hunting and in warfare. Watercraft technology artefacts in the form of dugout and bark canoes were used for transport and for fishing. Stone artefacts include cutting ...

  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. Hunting weapon - Wikipedia

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    The atlatl, one of the "newest" popular primitive hunting weapons. The most popular hunting weapons during antiquity were the bow and the spear. [8] During pre-history, prior to the invention of the bow, the most popular was arguably the atlatl; archaeological finds of atlatls have occurred on all continents except Antarctica.

  5. Ancient Australians used boomerangs to sharpen stone tools

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    Of course, if you happen to be an overactive squirrel with mischievous friends like in Hammy’s Boomerang Adventure (now streaming on Peacock!), you might have a different experience entirely. We ...

  6. 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.

  7. Woomera (spear-thrower) - Wikipedia

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    This sharp tool had many uses, such as cutting up game or other food and wood. It is supposed that the woomera could be used as a shield for protection against spears and boomerangs. The woomera is held in one hand while the other hand places the butt of the spear on the woomera's hook; the hollow curved shape facilitates this alignment without ...

  8. Valari - Wikipedia

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    The valari resembles, and is used similar to a boomerang or throwing club. It was used by the Tamil people in ancient battles, for protecting cattle from predators, and for hunting. The British called valari "collery-sticks" after the Kallar caste that used them. [2] Kallar favourite weapon is the Valaithadi or a curved, short and thick stick ...

  9. List of premodern combat weapons - Wikipedia

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    Clubbing boomerang (Worldwide) Returning boomerang (Australian) Cambuk (Southeast Asian) Canne de combat (European) Chúi (Chinese) Club, baseball bat, stone club, truncheon, cudgel, bludgeon; Crop (Worldwide) Bastons, Eskrima Sticks, straight sticks (Southeast Asian) Flail (European) Gada (Indian) Gunstock war club also thrown (American)