What is the earliest (proven) record of human existence?

Question

I mean, where there was no doubt that people existed, because of absolute fact.

Answer 1

a nice survey article of prehistoric art:
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/cognit/shared_files/Bednarik_2003.pdf
also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

The "Venus of Berekhat Ram" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Berekhat_Ram is dated to be more than 200,000 years old, as is the "Venus of Tan-Tan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Tan-Tan

More intentional and sophisticated art is the "Venus of Willendorf," which is dated to be around 22,000 BCE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf:

Answer 2

None exist - they all remain theories. Skulls that are up and over 200 million years - resemble the human skull, but also ape. Coincidentally, the -oldest- (carbon dating) are all found in Africa. So we continue to dig in Africa. Who is to say all life that had evolved into humans, pulled themselves out of the ocean, some how, each time - on a beach in Africa? So with limited finds, but creative minds - make up stories to cancel the binds, of the questions asked - from many wines. blah blah blah - could go on and on. The point is - A no doubt record of absolute fact - does not exist.

Answer 3

250,000 YEARS AT THIS POINT.
AT IT DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH BIBLE. BIBLE DOES NOT SAY HOW LONG IT TOOK TO FROM EARTH-
OD HAS NO TIME- HIS 6 DAYS COULD HAVE BEEN 6 BILLIONS YEAR.

ADAM AND EVE IS BACK AS FAR AS MEN HAD PASSED DOWN THAT INFORMATION...
WE CAN'T GO BACK 200 YEARS AND BE ACCURATE WITH HANDED DOWN WORD...

MANY RACES/PEOPLE could haveEXISTED BEFORE ADAM and EVE,

people read bible with blinders on.

time bwt let there be light and then the world was void without form ect could have been billions of years and dinosaur wiped out also.,
we know they and others creatures existed, god gave us rational
brain to understand that...

yes people and many things we will never know existed..
we gather new data daily...most supports the bible--

christians should understand that....

Answer 4

Of our species (Homo sapiens sapiens), the oldest known fossils are 130,000 and 120,000 years old from Omo, Ethiopia and nearby Laetoli, Tanzania. (But there is a 154,000 - 160,000 years old skull, from Herto, Ethiopia which is very similar to us - Homo sapiens idaltu - and of course, numerous other fossils of the Homo genus going back to 2.5 million years ago).

Answer 5

Read the Bible...or between the big bang and the present.