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Archaeogenetics at CPG
Dnr:

NAISS 2023/4-15

Type:

NAISS Large Storage

Principal Investigator:

Anders Götherström

Affiliation:

Stockholms universitet

Start Date:

2024-01-01

End Date:

2025-01-01

Primary Classification:

10615: Evolutionary Biology

Secondary Classification:

60103: Archaeology

Allocation

Abstract

The department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University has been at the forefront of archaeogenetics for over two decades. These days the field has expanded from focusing exclusively on endogenous reads from the ancient material to explore the potential of microbes in individual or environmental contexts. Studies often include multi-genomic datasets or various types of metagenomic DNA from different types of materials (including sediments, bones, and ancient mastics). The common factor among all these disciplines is that they are based on degraded ancient nucleic acids from several species, from historic or prehistoric materials, and the information they yield will help us understand historic and prehistoric societies. Over the latest decade, NAISS/SNIC has (together with SciLife) played an important role in our research, in conjunction with our own ancient DNA laboratory (since 2020 the Centre for Palaeogenetics, CPG) and the National Genomic Infrastructure (NGI) at SciLifeLabs that generates our sequences.Currently, we are conducting computational work in three different archaeogenetic areas which can broadly be described as ancient demography, close kinship in prehistoric societies, and metagenomics on ancient materials. This application serves to collect it all into one computational project with sufficient storage.