OK.

We have Neanderthal Man - skeletal remains, tools, artefacts - a short, stocky, cave-dwelling race of skilled craftsmen.

We have tales, originating in the same geographical area, of Dwarfs, Gnomes and Kobolds. Short, stocky troglodytes and skilled carftsmen. This is odd, but might be coincidental.

We have a human species - skeletons and tools -who seem to have averaged around three to four feet tall: Homo floresiensis.

We have tales in many cultures of Little People -elves, pixies, imps, etc. This is getting weird.

We have a massive skull which may belong to either a new species, Homo lungi, or to the mysterious Denisovan people. In ither case, facial reconstuction indicates a very close resemblance to us, but the size of the skull is indicative of greater stature than modern humans.

Guess what? Many cultures have stories of Giants and we have now moved out of the realm of coincidence into that of permissible speculation.

Genome mapping shows that our ancestors had close, indeed intimate, contact with both Neanderthals and Denisovans.

So the question is not whether Giants, Dwarfs and Little People ever existed. As represented in the stories, they did not, or we would have found recent archaeological traces of them.

The question is, did the folklore arise from sheer imagination, or was it built on older oral traditions passed down to our ancestors by their ancestors and based on actual knowledge of these other human species? If the former, that is one Hell of a concidence. If the latter, a little more light is shed on our species largely unknown history. At the very least, it raises questions, seeking the answers to which might reveal a little more about ourselves.

There are no extraordinary claims here, just a series of facts, arising from different areas of study, which share too many commonalities to be dismissed or ignored by anyone with a degree of curisosity.

Given that your first comment was both impolite and used the derogatory term 'woo', I can only conclude that the attack ad hominem is central to your modus operandi. If I respond in kind, that's the price you pay for being rude in the first place. Snark begets snark.

Taking oneself too seriously is the hallmark of the intellectualy feeble. One need only cite examples such as J K Rowling, Donald Trump and Richard Dawkins.

Feel free to respond only if you can bring yourself to do do politely.