Short communication, Note
Anomalies causing fatality in individual from Beniamin burial ground (Late Antiquity period), Shirak province, Armenia
Anahit Yu Khudaverdyan
orcid.org/0000-0002-1458-783X
*
Azat A. Yengibaryan
Shota A. Vardanyan
Oskar Nowak
orcid.org/0000-0003-1215-3226
Hamazasp H. Khachatryan
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
An individual whose skeleton was exhumed from tomb No. 2 at the Beniamin site showed healed trauma to the right midface, damage to the left frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital bones. We report of presence of osseous bridge on the left side of atlas, connecting posterior part of superior articular process to the posterior arch of atlas. Sulcus vertebrae for third part of vertebral artery over superior aspect of posterior arch of atlas, converted into foramen. This is a retrogressive and morphological phenomenon considered as Kimmerle anomaly. Double foramen transversarium were detected bilaterally in 2 cervical vertebrae (C5, C6). The course of vertebral artery may be distorted under such conditions. Many studies have reported an association between above anomalies (foramen arcuale, foramen transversarium) and neurological symptoms such as vertigo and migraine et all. It can be argued that woman entered a sedentary lifestyle. Her cause of death is likely to be related to severe trauma to the occipital bone during a fall.
Keywords
Armenia; Beniamin; Late Antiquity period; Kimmerle anomaly; trauma
Hrčak ID:
318134
URI
Publication date:
20.6.2024.
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