Anomalies Causing Fatality in Individual from Beniamin Burial Ground (Classical/Late Antiquity Period), Shirak Province, Armenia

Abstract

An individual whose skeleton was exhumed from the grave No. 2 exhibited healed, trauma of the right the midfacial, damage to the left frontal, parietal and temporal bones and occipital bone. 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 a 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 are associated with severe a trauma to the occipital bone when falling.