Meanwhile, across Ice Age Asia…

Thousands of Years Ago, Denisovans Might Have Been Huge, Especially Compared to Their Archaic Human Neighbors smithsonianmag.com

New reconstructions put the Denisovans among the largest archaic humans, likely towering over the small-bodied Homo erectus populations sharing Asia with them. We have only fragments of their bones, so their size has been inferred rather than measured - a big cousin sketched from a few teeth and finger joints.