Maybe humans were actually smaller somehow back then. But we giants wiped them out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
Scientists concluded that the skeleton was an 'interesting mutation' of a male human that had survived post-birth for between six and eight years
Can people quote wikipedia lessI just clicked the link and wandered around for like 30 minutes and was reading about ancient egyptian economies when i finally came to
You could just read the article. It's nobody's fault but your own.