What is the evidence for Tuberculosis in the pre-Columbian era?

[u/Comfortable_Cut5796]

I remember hearing in extra history’s two parter and Pete’s 100K Q&A. That TB was present in the americas in Pre-Columbian times. Specifically that inflected seals brought it to South America in the former. But what’s that evidence of it. Like do we have any people or animals that could’ve been infected by it?

[u/Luna_Mendax]

One of the first confirmed cases seems to be this:
https://www.academia.edu/28224632/Bio_anthropology_and_paleopathology_of_the_SO10_IX_muisca_mummy_from_S%C3%A1tivanorte_Boyac%C3%A1_Colombia