question: How’s the Homo Sapiens 200.000 years old if the farther we have of actual history is 10.000 years?
comment: 200k is how old *anatomically* modern humans are. It's believed by anthropologists that modern human **mental** development is about 30k-20k years old based on the sudden appearance of symbolic artifacts and art. So before that point, there were "dumb" people walking around with clothes and weapons, but they wouldn't have been able to communicate or imagine on a high level. Their societies were very small, and didn't change much over thousands of years.
passages: Among extant populations, the Khoi-San (or "Capoid") hunters-gatherers of Southern Africa may represent the human population with the earliest possible divergence within the group "Homo sapiens sapiens". Their separation time has been estimated in a 2017 study to be as long as between 260,000 and 350,000 years ago, compatible with the estimated age of "H. sapiens". "H. s. idaltu", found at Middle Awash in Ethiopia, lived about 160,000 years ago, and "H. sapiens" lived at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia about 195,000 years ago. Fossil evidence for modern human presence in West Asia is ascertained for 177,000 years ago, and disputed fossil evidence suggests expansion as far as East Asia by 120,000 years ago.
   The genus "Homo" is now estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old, with the appearance of "H. habilis"; meaning that the existence of all types of men has been within the Quaternary.
   "Homo sapiens" (anatomically modern humans) are assumed to have emerged about 300,000 years ago based on thermoluminescence dating of artefacts and remains from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, published in 2017. Previously, the Omo remains, excavated between 1967 and 1974 in Omo National Park, Ethiopia, and dated to 200,000 years ago, were long held to be the oldest known fossils of anatomically modern humans.
   Section::::The archaeological and environmental sequence at Ounjougou.:Holocene.:Terminal Holocene (400 BC-present).
   Once the question is reformulated as dating the transition of the evolution of "H. sapiens" from a precursor species, the issue can be refined into two further questions. These are: the analysis and dating of the evolution of Archaic Homo sapiens, and of the evolution from "archaic" forms of the species "H. sapiens sapiens". The second question is given an answer in two parts: anatomically modern humans are thought to be about 200,000 years old, with behavioral modernity dating back to 40,000 or 50,000 years ago. The first question is still subject to debates on its definition.
  
  Section::::Historical debates.
   Timeline of human prehistory
  
  This timeline of human prehistory comprises the time from the first appearance of "Homo sapiens" in Africa 300,000 years ago to the invention of writing and the beginning of historiography, 5,000 years ago.
  
  It thus covers the time from the Middle Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the very beginnings of the world history.
  
  All dates are approximate subject to revision based on new discoveries or analyses.
  
  Section::::Middle Paleolithic.
  
  BULLET::::- 315,000 years ago: approximate date of appearance of "Homo sapiens" (Jebel Irhoud, Morocco).
  
  BULLET::::- 270,000 years ago: age of Y-DNA haplogroup A00 ("Y-chromosomal Adam").
   Francis Thackeray, of the University of the Witwatersrand, suggested that "H. naledi" lived 2 ± 0.5 million years ago, based on the skulls' similarities to "H. rudolfensis", "H. erectus," and "H. habilis," species that existed around 1.5, 2.5, and 1.8 million years ago, respectively. Early estimates derived from statistical analysis of cranial traits yielded a range of 2 million years to 912,000 years before present.
   Most notable is the Southern Dispersal of "H. sapiens" around 60 kya, which led to the lasting peopling of Oceania and Eurasia by anatomically modern humans.
  
  "H. sapiens" interbred with archaic humans both in Africa and in Eurasia, in Eurasia notably with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
  
  Among extant populations of "Homo sapiens", the deepest temporal division is found in the San people of Southern Africa, estimated at close to 130,000 years,
  
  or possibly more than 300,000 years ago.
  
  Temporal division among non-Africans is of the order of 60,000 years in the case of Australo-Melanesians.
   The Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) of prehistoric human history and industry is dated from 2.6 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago; thus it closely coincides with the Pleistocene epoch of geologic time, which is 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago. The beginning of early human evolution reaches back to the earliest innovations of primitive technology and tool culture. H. erectus were the first to use fire to cook and to make hand axes out of stone.
   pending the ratification of the 2017 proposal by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, ICSSQS) of the Chibanian stage.
  
  The Middle Pleistocene contains the transition from the Lower to Middle Paleolithic in palaeoanthropology, i.e. the emergence of "Homo sapiens" at 300,000 years ago. The oldest known human DNA dates to the Middle Pleistocene.
  
  Section::::Definition process.
   BULLET::::- c.0.79 Ma – earliest demonstrable evidence of the controlled use of fire by "Homo erectus"
  
  BULLET::::- c.0.7 Ma – last reversal of the earth's magnetic field
  
  BULLET::::- c.0.7 Ma: oldest archaic hominins that broke away from the modern human lineage that were found to have inserted into the Sub-Saharan African population genome approximately 35,000 years ago.
  
  BULLET::::- c.0.64 Ma – Yellowstone caldera erupts
  
  BULLET::::- c.0.6 Ma – Homo heidelbergensis evolves.
  
  BULLET::::- c.0.315 Ma – Middle Paleolithic begins. Appearance of "Homo sapiens" in Africa
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Detailed logarithmic timeline
  
  BULLET::::- Terasecond and longer
  
  BULLET::::- Timeline of the far future
   The sediment of Gran Dolina was dated at 900,000 years old in 2014.
  
  Section::::Fossils.:Sima del Elefante.
   The ongoing admixture events within anatomically modern human populations make it difficult to estimate the age of the matrilinear and patrilinear most recent common ancestors of modern populations (Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam). Estimates of the age of Y-chromosomal Adam have been pushed back significantly with the discovery of an ancient Y-chromosomal lineage in 2013, to likely beyond 300,000 years ago. There have, however, been no reports of the survival of Y-chromosomal or mitochondrial DNA clearly deriving from archaic humans (which would push back the age of the most recent patrilinear or matrilinear ancestor beyond 500,000 years).
   Excavations in the late 1990s were carried out by Peter Beaumont of the McGregor Museum. John McNabb from the University of Southampton worked with Beaumont in analysing the Acheulean stone artefact technology. Further excavations have been carried out by archaeologists from the University of the Witwatersrand (inter alia for application of cosmogenic nuclide burial dating) and the University of Toronto. The current active programme of research has yielded an as yet unpublished basal date of some 2.3 million years, while excavations involving students from the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley investigate the most recent circa 19th century contact period archaeology showing interaction between local communities and colonial diggers.
   Early "Homo sapiens" originated some 200,000 years ago, ushering in the Middle Palaeolithic. Anatomic changes indicating modern language capacity also arise during the Middle Palaeolithic. During the Middle Palaeolithic Era, there is the first definitive evidence of human use of fire. Sites in Zambia have charred bone and wood that have been dated to 61,000 BP. The systematic burial of the dead, music, early art, and the use of increasingly sophisticated multi-part tools are highlights of the Middle Paleolithic.
   Extinct species of the genus "Homo" include "Homo erectus", extant during roughly 1.9 to 0.4 million years ago, and a number of other species (by some authors considered subspecies of either "H. sapiens" or "H. erectus"). The age of speciation of "H. sapiens" out of ancestral "H. erectus" (or an intermediate species such as "Homo antecessor") is estimated to have been roughly 350,000 years ago. Sustained archaic admixture is known to have taken place both in Africa and (following the recent Out-Of-Africa expansion) in Eurasia, between about 100,000 and 30,000 years ago.
   Section::::Origin and dispersal.:Eurasia.:East and Southeast Asia.
  
  "H. erectus" is attested with certainty in East and Southeast Asia from about 0.7 Ma, with possible early presence before 1 Ma; stone tools from Shangchen discovered in 2018 were even claimed to be older than 2 Mya.
   BULLET::::- 250,000 years ago: first appearance of "Homo neanderthalensis" (Saccopastore skulls)
  
  BULLET::::- 250,000–200,000 years ago: modern human presence in West Asia (Misliya cave)
  
  BULLET::::- 230,000–150,000 years ago: age of mt-DNA haplogroup L ("Mitochondrial Eve")
  
  BULLET::::- 195,000 years ago: Omo remains (Ethiopia).
  
  BULLET::::- 170,000 years ago: humans are wearing clothing by this date.
  
  BULLET::::- 160,000 years ago: "Homo sapiens idaltu"
  
  BULLET::::- 150,000 years ago: Peopling of Africa: Khoisanid separation, age of mtDNA haplogroup L0
  
  BULLET::::- 125,000 years ago: peak of the Eemian interglacial period.
  
  BULLET::::- 120,000–90,000 years ago: Abbassia Pluvial in North Africa—the Sahara desert region is wet and fertile.
   The earliest presence of "Homo" (or indeed any hominin) outside of Africa dates to close to 2 million years ago.
  
  A 2018 study claims human presence at Shangchen, central China, as early as 2.12 Ma based on 
  
  magnetostratigraphic dating of the lowest layer containing stone artefacts. 
  
  The oldest known human skeletal remains outside of Africa are from Dmanisi, Georgia (Dmanisi skull 4), and are dated to 1.8 Ma. These remains are classified as "Homo erectus georgicus".
   It is estimated that the average life span of hominids on the African savanna between 4,000,000 and 200,000 years ago was 20 years. This means that the population would be completely renewed about five times per century, assuming that infant mortality has already been accounted for. It is further estimated that the population of hominids in Africa fluctuated between 10,000 and 100,000 individuals, thus averaging about 50,000 individuals. Roughly multiplying 40,000 centuries by 50,000 to 500,000 individuals per century, yields a total of 2 billion to 20 billion hominids, or an average estimate of about 10 billion hominids that lived during that approximately 4,000,000 year time span.
   In China, the Liujiang man () is among the earliest modern humans found in East Asia. 
  
  The date most commonly attributed to the remains is 67,000 years ago. High rates of variability yielded by various dating techniques carried out by different researchers place the most widely accepted range of dates with 67,000 BP as a minimum, but do not rule out dates as old as 159,000 BP. claim that modern human teeth have been found in China dating to at least 80,000 years ago.
  
  Section::::Southern Route dispersal.
  
  Section::::Southern Route dispersal.:Coastal route.
   The speciation of "H. sapiens" out of archaic human varieties derived from "H. erectus" is estimated as having taken place over 350,000 years ago, as the Khoisan split from other populations is dated between 260,000 and 350,000 years ago.
  
  An alternative suggestion defines "H. sapiens" cladistically as including the lineage of modern humans since the split from the lineage of Neanderthals, roughly 500,000 to 800,000 years ago.
   Lomekwi
  
  Lomekwi 3 is the name of an archaeological site in Kenya where ancient stone tools have been discovered dating to 3.3 million years ago, which make them the oldest ever found.
  
  Section::::Lomekwi 3.
   Section::::Stratigraphy and dating.
  
  Radiocarbon dates suggest that human occupation covered about 37,000 years at Kalemba. If the hypothesis that dates GX-2767 and GX-2768 are better represented by the dating to around 13,000 years BCE, then according to Phillipson,Phillipson the remaining dates are consistent and form a series that suggests several periods of occupation that follow: period 1, before 35,000 years BCE; period 2, c. 25,000 to 21,000 years BCE; Period 3, c. 15,000 to 11,000 years BCE, and period 4  6,000 years BCE.
  
  Section::::Finds.
  
  BULLET::::- Flakes
  
  BULLET::::- Stone
  
  BULLET::::- Hammer stones, anvils, rubbing and grinding stone
  
  BULLET::::- Bone artifacts
   BULLET::::- A study on the age of a modern human mandible with teeth from the Misliya cave (Mount Carmel, Israel) is published by Hershkovitz "et al." (2018), who date the fossil as at least 177,000 years old, representing the oldest reported fossil of a member of the "Homo sapiens" clade found outside Africa.
  
  BULLET::::- A phalanx of a member of the species "Homo sapiens" is described from the ≈95–86,000 years old Al Wusta site (An Nafud, Saudi Arabia) by Groucutt "et al." (2018), representing the oldest directly dated fossil of "Homo sapiens" found outside Africa and the Levant.
  
presuppositions: Homo Sapiens had the ability to communicate more than 30k years ago. It is not possible for homosapiens to be 200 thousand years old if history has only lasted 10,000 years. 
corrections: Homo Sapiens did not have the ability to communicate more than 30k years ago. Homo sapiens existed for 170k years before the appearance of artifacts and art. 
raw_presuppositions: Homo Sapiens had the ability to communicate more than 30k years ago. It is not possible for homosapiens to be 200 thousand years old if history has only lasted 10,000 years.  Actual history started when homo sapiens were developed.
raw_corrections: Homo Sapiens did not have the ability to communicate more than 30k years ago. Homo sapiens existed for 170k years before the appearance of artifacts and art.  Homo sapiens existed for 170k years before the appearance of artifacts and art.