It is honestly shocking that there were some form of human building houses with stone axes half a million years ago. It's difficult to reason about what kind of

It is honestly shocking that there were some form of human building houses with stone axes half a million years ago. It's difficult to reason about what kind of humans they were.. but it sounds quite a bit like modern humans. How old are we exactly? And when I say "we" I don't mean Homo Sapien as we would likely identify in a sort of "uncanny valley" way with other species of human.