I wanted to give the woman in my earlier artwork “Southeast Asian Showdown” a name and a story. She is Ungu, an ancestral East Eurasian woman who lives in Southeast Asia around 50,000 years ago. In the short story I have written for her, she rescues a Denisovan child named Tomtuk (also pictured here) from a tiger and must return him to his mother, whom another clan of Denisovans captured in a brutal skirmish.
By the way, the weapon Ungu is holding to her lips here is a blowgun like that used by some Southeast Asian and Native American peoples, and the “pins” in her hair are the darts for it.
We literally do not know what denisovans looked like. All we know is that they looked similar to neanderthals amd had dark skin. So speculating the apperance of creature only known from a few bones is not a good way to do paleoart. And the exact behaviours and clan structure of Denisovans is unkown, so how would an infant Denisovan wander off their group is unkown too.