SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir: v26.03: The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand

Release v26.03.0 includes 2 new publications, representing 0 new ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 2 new ancient microbial genomes, and 0 new ancient environmental samples. This brings the repository to a total of 218 publications, 1,733 ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 815 ancient microbial genomes, and 803 ancient environmental samples.

Furthermore, this release adds 0 new ancient host-associated metagenome libraries, 24 new ancient microbial genome libraries, and 0 new ancient environmental libraries. This brings the repository to a total of 2,980 ancient host-associated metagenome libraries, 3,645 ancient microbial genomes libraries, and 928 ancient environmental libraries.

Finally, this release adds 143 new ancient host-associated metagenome dates, 2 new ancient microbial genome dates. This brings the repository to a total of 143 ancient host-associated metagenome dates and 770 ancient microbial genomes dates.

Added

Ancient Metagenome: Host Associated

• C14 Witt 2021 10.1038/s41598-021-82362-6 (added by @KaHea-21)
• C14 Sabin 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0576 (added by @KaHea-21)
• C14 Kimsis 2023 10.1111/1758-2229.13157 (added by @KaHea-21)
• C14 Scorrano 2022 10.1038/s42003-022-04190-2 (added by @KaHea-21)
• C14 Fotakis 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0584 (added by @aidaanva)
• C14 Warinner 2024 10.1038/ng.2906 (added by @KaHea-21)
• C14 Jackson2024 10.1093/molbev/msae017 (added by @iseultj)
• C14 Appelt 2014 10.1128/AEM.03242-13 (added by @aidaanva)
• C14 Eriksen 2025 10.1038/s42003-025-07616-9 (added by @meganemichel)
• C14 Kazarina 2021 10.3390/genes12020309 (added by @aidaanva)
• C14 Eisenhofer 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0578 (added by @aidaanva)
• C14 Williams 2020 10.1128/MRA.00850-20 (added by @aidaanva)
• C14 Modi2020 10.1007/s12520-019-00983-5 (added by @ilight1542)
• C14 Granehall 2021 10.1186/s40168-021-01132-8 (added by @KaHea-21)
• C14 Jacobson 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0586 (added by @iseultj)

Ancient Single Genome: Host Associated

• Light-Maka 2025 10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.029 (added by @ilight1542)
• Urban 2025 10.1186/S12915-025-02282-Z (added by @granehaell)

Ancient Metagenome: Environmental

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Changed

• Velsko 2024: replace the community type and material for the sample ERS15409414 (from bone to dental calculus; corrected by @alexhbnr)
• Muhlemann 2018b (10.1073/pnas.1804921115): Corrected date inconsistencies as pointed in #1731 (corrected by @ZoePochon)

The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand

Located about 30 km northeast of Copenhagen, this cultural landscape encompasses the two hunting forests of Store Dyrehave and Gribskov, as well as the hunting park of Jægersborg Hegn/Jægersborg Dyrehave. This is a designed landscape where Danish kings and their court practiced par force hunting, or hunting with hounds, which reached its peak between the 17th and the late 18th centuries, when the absloute monarchs transformed it into a landscape of power. With hunting lanes laid out in a star system, combined with an orthogonal grid pattern, numbered stone posts, fences and a hunting lodge, the site demonstrates the application of Baroque landscaping principles to forested areas.