What scientific evidence makes it obvious that humans were around earlier than (say) 8 thousand years ago?

What scientific evidence makes it obvious that humans were around earlier than (say) 8 thousand years ago?
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Here’s a site that has a lot of articles on human evolution that you might use as a starting point: http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution
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