7,000 Year Old Caveman Bones Found; Oldest Modern Human DNA

[Annik]

The oldest "human" bones are dated to 195,000 years ago...which is not to say that usable DNA can be extracted from them.

Then of course we get back into the whole neanderthal,heidelbergensis, erectus question of what is really "human."

This is why I was careful to say that the DNA was the oldest, not the bones themselves.

EDIT: Oldest Modern Human DNA, of course.