Bioarchaeological evidence of one of the earliest Islamic burials in the Levant

This work was funded by a grant from the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (Nilsson-Ehle Endowments) to T.G. and C.V. and the La Trobe Internal Research grants to C.V. M.S. was part of the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME). C.V. is supported by a Ramon y Cajal grant (RYC2018-025223-I). T.G. is supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsradet (2017-05267). M.J. and A.G. were supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsradet and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation. J.S. is supported by a grant from Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission, no. GA 750460; H2020-MSCA-IF-2016) and a Ramon y Cajal grant (RYC2019-028346-I). The archaeological research at Tell Qarassa was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant HAR2016-74999-P) and the Palarq Foundation. The authors would like to thank Nikolay Oskolkov, Claudio Mirabello and Per Unneberg from the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure of Sweden (NBIS) for their assistance with KrakenUniq, Pathogenome databases and metagenomic workflows. We thank Arielle R. Munters for initial data processing and Carolina Bernhardsson for assistance with the diploid genotype calls. The computations were performed on resources provided by SNIC through Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) under projects sllstore2017020 and 2018/8-150. Shotgun sequencing was performed at the National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) Stockholm. We also thank Phillip Edwards for valuable comments on the manuscript and Christina Warinner for discussion.