v24.06: Su Nuraxi di Barumini

Release v24.06.0 includes 5 new publications, representing 4 new ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 39 new ancient microbial genomes, and 40 new ancient environmental samples. This brings the repository to a total of 192 publications, 1431 ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 706 ancient microbial genomes, and 702 ancient environmental samples

Furthermore, this release adds 4 new ancient host-associated metagenome libraries, 58 new ancient microbial genome libraries, and 58 new ancient environmental libraries. This brings the repository to a total of 2561 ancient host-associated metagenome libraries, 3106 ancient microbial genomes libraries, and 812 ancient environmental libraries.

Added

Ancient Metagenome: Host Associated

• Wright 2024 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104510 (added by @biancamariabonucci)

Ancient Single Genome: Host Associated

• Sun 2024 10.1038/s41467-024-47358-6 (added by @aidaanva)
• Urban 2024 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.006 (added by @aidaanva)
• Lebrasseur 2024 10.1093/ve/vead087(added by @YuejiaoHuang)

Ancient Metagenome: Environmental

• Liu 2024 10.1126/sciadv.adn8490 (added by @rozwalak)

Su Nuraxi di Barumini

During the late 2nd millennium B.C. in the Bronze Age, a special type of defensive structure known as nuraghi (for which no parallel exists anywhere else in the world) developed on the island of Sardinia. The complex consists of circular defensive towers in the form of truncated cones built of dressed stone, with corbel-vaulted internal chambers. The complex at Barumini, which was extended and reinforced in the first half of the 1st millennium under Carthaginian pressure, is the finest and most complete example of this remarkable form of prehistoric architecture.

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