Australian Aboriginal peoples are known for their intense use of the throwing stick and boomerangs almost all over this continent
This continuous use of throwing stick by Aboriginal people from
prehistory to XVIII siecle when european came in contact with these
population contribute to make know this particular hunting weapon.
European first migrants have been fascinated by the famous returning
stick called later "boomerang" which they bring back from australia and
from which they start to craft their own modern boomerang in modern
material. These boomerangs, imitated from traditionnal Aboriginal
boomerang leads to the sportive and leisure boomerang discipline
existing nowaday.
Not far from australia we can find some throwing sticks in
indonesian islands and in western
polynesia
In
Africa we could find few ethnologic traces od use of the throwing stick which is indeed very ancient on this continent
On the
American continent, in Arizona, Hopi indians used rabbitstick(throwing stick) for rabbit hunting
In India, some throwing sticks with elliptic or rectangular sections
and sometimes heavy(up to 500 g) were used to hunt deer, rabbit but
sometimes tigers! they were also war weapon
