The Zana Affair by Ray Crowe  Sunday, November 6th, 2011  The
Zana Affair  by Ray Crowe October 31, 2010  This is the
incredible story of Zana or Zanya, a hairy Wild Woman, known
locally as an Abnauayu, or a real Abominable Snowman; Snow Woman
in this case, or to some, called an Alma (female is Almasty) or
Kaptar (from Khazakhstan), depending on the location.  She is a
feral relict hominoid from Stone Age prehistory distantly
related to human beings, possibly Neanderthal some think.  The
species “Homo neanderhalensis” is not an ancestor of modern
humans some research indicates, the mitochondrial DNA studies
having shown that our two species have evolved separately.  They
are descended from a separate branch of the human family tree
some 516,000 years ago, according to some research published in
Nature Magazine.  When modern man moved into Europe about 45,000
years ago, the Neanderthals were pushed into the wilds,
supposedly going extinct, as the last known Neanderthal fossils
are from 24,000 years ago.  In co