Intentional dental modification and bone anomalies suggestive of TB in skeletal remains of Tenetehara-Guajajara.

(A) Frontal view of the skull of individual SABMN00707. The arrows indicate intentional dental mutilation of the upper incisors, the so-called piranha teeth. (B-D) Lumbar vertebrae of individual SABMN00700. (B) Left arrow indicates bone loss at the upper right zygapophysis of vertebrae. Right arrow indicates porotic changes of the vertebral body suggestive of TB. (C) Porotic changes suggestive of TB at the vertebral body (arrow). (D) Bone loss at the upper left zygapophysis of vertebrae (arrow).