Researchers recently took another look at a thigh bone discovered in 1989 and say it may signal that pre-modern humans lived much longer than previously thought.

According to newly published research, a fragment from a 14,000-year-old thigh bone may be proof that pre-modern humans lived much longer than previously thought. 
The bone itself is from the Red Deer Cave in southern China, and was excavated along with other remains in 1989. 
Professor Ji Xueping from the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in China, said, “Its young age suggests the possibility that primitive-looking humans could have survived until very late