Multiple anomalies in the atlanto-occipital joint (articulation atlanto-occipitalis)

Hanna Mańkowska-Pliszka; Urszula Wieczorek; Jarosław Wysocki; Jacek Tomczyk

doi:10.2478/anre-2013-0011

Authors

Hanna Mańkowska-Pliszka Institute of Nutrition, University of Natural Life and Humanistic, Siedlce, Poland
Urszula Wieczorek Institute of Nutrition, University of Natural Life and Humanistic, Siedlce, Poland
Jarosław Wysocki Department of Descriptive and Clinical Anatomy, Medical University Warsaw, Poland
Jacek Tomczyk Department of Anthropology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/anre-2013-0011

Keywords:

anatomical anomalies, Sudan, atlanto-occipital joint

Abstract

Contemporary populations exhibit numerous skeletal anatomical variations and the atlanto-occipital joint (articulation atlanto-occipitalis) is often the location of such variations. A female skeleton dated at 4000 BC and excavated at Meroe in the Sudan provides an example of numerous variations in the basilar skull and cervical vertebrae. These variations consist of the presence of a bilateral atlanto-occipital joint with a third trochanter, a unilateral arcuate atlas foramen and huge axial nutrient foramina.

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