May 15, · The oldest Homo sapiens fossils that anthropologists have found thus far date to around 315,000 years ago That means we can say that modern humans are at least that old But our lineage likely extends further back in time — we just don't have the fossils to prove itNov 14, 09 · They first began to appear nearly 0,000 years ago in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals It is now clear that they did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries However, it is likely that both modern humans and Neandertals descended from Homo heidelbergensis"A ll people today are classified as Homo sapiens Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 0,000 years ago in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals It is now clear that early Homo sapiens, or modern humans, did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries Modern Humans May Have Been In Europe 150 000 Years Earlier Than Thought...