Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following supporters of the original summer schools and eventual textbook.

Financial Support

The content of this textbook was developed from the SPAAM Summer School: Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics summer school series, sponsored by the Werner Siemens-Stiftung (Grant: Paleobiotechnology, awarded to Pierre Stallforth, Hans-Knöll Institute, and Christina Warinner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

In 2025 the summer school and textbook was supported by the NFDI4Microbiota, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number 460129525 (NFDI4Microbiota FlexFund grant ‘EnterArchaeo’ to James Fellows Yates and Christina Warinner).

Institutional Support

Infrastructural Support

The practical sessions of the summers schools work was supported by the BMBF-funded de.NBI Cloud within the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) (031A532B, 031A533A, 031A533B, 031A534A, 031A535A, 031A537A, 031A537B, 031A537C, 031A537D, 031A538A). z