A Maya woman who was buried in a cave in southern Belize sometime between 250 and 400 CE was so revered, according to researchers, that people have been visiting her gravesite for centuries, leaving offerings, and one of the most popular offerings is teeth. 226 human teeth, to be exact.

As detailed in a recent preprint reported on by Science magazine, archaeologists and geneticists analyzed DNA from the remains found in Bats’ub Cave in the mountainous south of Belize. The woman herself had been decapitated post-mortem, her head replaced with a ceramic bowl containing a single jade bead to mimic an underworld creation myth.

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Scattered around her spine and pelvis were things you don’t normally see there: a whole lot of teeth.…