Aleks Pluskowski

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Aleks Pluskowski

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According to Wikipedia, Aleks Pluskowski is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. His areas of research include the environmental archaeology of medieval Europe, especially zooarchaeology, ecology, biodiversity and human-animal relations.

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Aleks Pluskowski's Published Works

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Published Works

Naomi Sykes: Beastly Questions. Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues (2016) (41)
Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals as Material Culture in Medieval Europe (2004) (32)
Intestinal parasites in a mid-14th century latrine from Riga, Latvia: fish tapeworm and the consumption of uncooked fish in the medieval eastern Baltic region (2014) (32)
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: Holy War and Colonisation (2013) (26)
Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies (2007) (22)
The zooarchaeology of medieval ‘Christendom’: ideology, the treatment of animals and the making of medieval Europe (2010) (21)
Detecting the environmental impact of the Baltic Crusades on a late-medieval (13th–15th century) frontier landscape: palynological analysis from Malbork Castle and hinterland, Northern Poland (2011) (21)
The Non‐Adult Cohort from Le Morne Cemetery, Mauritius: A Snap Shot of Early Life and Death after Abolition (2014) (21)
Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historical Past (2005) (20)
Where are the wolves? Investigating the scarcity of European grey wolf (Canis lupus lupus) remains in medieval archaeological contexts and its implications (2006) (20)
The Ecology of Crusading: Investigating the Environmental Impact of Holy War and Colonisation at the Frontiers of Medieval Europe (2011) (18)
Antichrist superstars: the Vikings in hard rock and heavy metal (2007) (18)
The Ecological Impact of Conquest and Colonization on a Medieval Frontier Landscape: Combined Palynological and Geochemical Analysis of Lake Sediments from Radzyń Chełminski, Northern Poland (2015) (17)
Potential osteoarchaeological evidence for riding and the military use of horses at Malbork Castle, Poland (2009) (17)
Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages (2008) (15)
Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic (2022) (14)
MEDIEVAL LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION IN THE SOUTHEAST AND EASTERN BALTIC: PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE COLONISATION OF FRONTIER LANDSCAPES (2014) (14)
Religious Transformations in the Middle Ages: Towards a New Archaeological Agenda (2017) (11)
A multi-proxy, diachronic and spatial perspective on the urban activities within an indigenous community in medieval Riga, Latvia (2017) (10)
Feeding the Crusades: Archaeobotany, Animal Husbandry and Livestock Alimentation on the Baltic Frontier (2020) (9)
Plant macrofossil, pollen and invertebrate analysis of a mid-14th century cesspit from medieval Riga, Latvia (the eastern Baltic): taphonomy and indicators of human diet (2017) (8)
Communicating Through Skin and Bone:: Appropriating Animal Bodies in Medieval Western European Seigneurial Culture (2007) (8)
Thirteenth century cultural deposits at the castle of the Teutonic Order in Karksi (2013) (7)
Animal Bones from an Industrial Quarter at Malbork, Poland: Towards an Ecology of a Castle Built in Prussia by the Teutonic Order (2009) (7)
Biała Góra: the forgotten colony in the medieval Pomeranian-Prussian borderlands (2014) (6)
The Archaeology of Paganism (2011) (6)
NEW TECHNOLOGY OR ADAPTATION AT THE FRONTIER? BUTCHERY AS A SIGNIFIER OF CULTURAL TRANSITIONS IN THE MEDIEVAL EASTERN BALTIC (2014) (6)
Dealing with Deposits in the Dutch River Area: (2011) (6)
Evidence for the onset of mining activities during the 13th century in Poland using lead isotopes from lake sediment cores. (2019) (6)
The environmental impact of cultural change: Palynological and quantitative land cover reconstructions for the last two millennia in northern Poland (2019) (6)
Estimating molecular preservation of the intestinal microbiome via metagenomic analyses of latrine sediments from two medieval cities (2020) (5)
The Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Project: exploring the impact of colonialism and colonisation in the Indian Ocean (2011) (5)
Late-Medieval Horse Remains at Cēsis Castle, Latvia, and the Teutonic Order’s Equestrian Resources in Livonia (2018) (5)
Ecologies of crusading, colonization, and religious conversion in the medieval Baltic: Terra Sacra II (2019) (4)
The Baltic Crusades and ecological transformation: The zooarchaeology of conquest and cultural change in the Eastern Baltic in the second millennium AD (2019) (4)
Witchcraft and Deep Time–a debate at Harvard (2010) (4)
The dragon's skull: how can zooarchaeologists contribute to our understanding of otherness in the Middle Ages? (2013) (3)
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade (2022) (3)
Birds at the Teutonic Order's castles in Prussia (Poland) (2020) (3)
Survival at the Frontier of Holy War: Political Expansion, Crusading, Environmental Exploitation and the Medieval Colonizing Settlement at Biała Góra, North Poland (2015) (3)
The castle of the Teutonic Order in Karksi: preliminary excavation results (2012) (3)
Power Centres and Marginal Landscapes: Tracking Pre- and Post-Conquest (Late Iron Age and Medieval) Land-Use in the Cēsis Castle Hinterland, Central Latvia (2020) (2)
The castle and the warren: Medieval East Anglian fur culture in context (2013) (2)
Landscapes of (re)conquest: dynamics of multicultural frontiers in medieval South-west Europe (2020) (2)
From the convent to the commandery: the pivotal role of the environment in defining the medieval Baltic Ordensland (2019) (2)
The ecology of crusading project: new research on medieval Baltic landscapes (2011) (2)
The Medieval Wild (2018) (2)
Who ruled the forests? An inter-disciplinary approach towards medieval hunting landscapes (2007) (2)
Micromorphological and geochemical investigation of formation processes in the refectory at the castle of Margat (Qal'at al-Marqab), Syria (2014) (2)
The role of geoarchaeology in understanding the formation and function of of Święta Góra (Staświny), Masuria, Poland: interim results from Feature 40 (2013) (2)
The Archaeology of the Military Orders: The Material Culture of Holy War (2018) (2)
The Tyranny of the Gingerbread House: Contextualising the Fear of Wolves in Medieval Northern Europe through Material Culture, Ecology and Folklore (2021) (2)
Forgotten Castle Landscapes: Connecting Monuments and Landscapes through Heritage and Research (2019) (2)
Constructing exotic animals and environments in late Medieval Britain (2010) (2)
Fluxgate gradiometry survey in the ruins of Karski Castle and palaeoenvironmental analysis in its hinterlands (2009) (2)
The zooarchaeological identification of a ‘Morisco’ community after the Christian conquest of Granada (Spain, early 16th century): sociocultural continuities and economic innovations (2021) (2)
Geoarchaeology and Castlescapes: Heritage Management Case Studies in Spain and the Eastern Baltic (2019) (2)
From forest to field: the changing environment of Medieval Prussia (2013) (1)
Druidism and Neo‐Paganism (2011) (1)
What is exotic? Sources of animals and animal products from the edges of the medieval world (2009) (1)
Big Data Palaeoecology reveals significant variation in Black Death mortality in Europe (2021) (1)
The Animal Bones from the 2004 Excavations at Stari Bar, Montenegro (2006) (1)
The Materiality of Multiculturalism. An Archaeological Perspective (2018) (1)
Theocratic Rule, Native Agency and Transformation: Post-Crusade Sacred Landscapes in the Eastern Baltic (2018) (1)
Communicating through skin and bone: the appropriation of animal bodies in medieval western seigneurial culture (2007) (1)
Environmental assessment of samples from the castle site at Grudziądz, Poland (2012) (1)
Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape-Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe (2015) (1)
Karin Altenberg. Experiencing landscapes: a study of space and identity in three marginal areas of Medieval Britain and Scandinavia (Lund Studies in Medieval Archaeology No. 31). vii+293 pages, 71 figures. 2003. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International; 91-22-01997-9 paperback. (2004) (0)
What does a frontier look like? The biocultural dynamics of the Lower Vistula borderland in the Middle Ages (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (2017) (0)
08.05.16, Lightsey, Manmade Marvels (2008) (0)
The cultural roles of perforated fish vertebrae in prehistoric and historic Europe (2021) (0)
Frontier societies and environmental change in northeast Europe: introduction (2013) (0)
Between radicalism and tolerance: Characterising the rule of a militarised Christian theocracy in the medieval Baltic (2016) (0)
(Re)Conquests: Creating New Societies at the Frontiers of the Medieval Western Mediterranean (2019) (0)
La vita quotidiana dei monaci (2018) (0)
THE ANIMAL BONES FROM THE 2004 (2005) (0)
AnimalBonesfromanIndustrialQuarterat Malbork,Poland:TowardsanEcologyofaCastle BuiltinPrussiabytheTeutonicOrder (2009) (0)
Comments on Camilla Olofsson: Making New Antlers: Depositions of Animal Skulls and Antlers as a Message of Regeneration in South Sámi Grave Context (2011) (0)
Anna Marciniak-Kajzer, Archaeology of Medieval Knights’ Manor Houses in Poland, trans. Sabina Siemaszko. Łódź and Cracow: Łódź University Press and Jagiellonian University Press, 2016. Paper. Pp. 207; 8 color and 16 black-and-white figures. $45. ISBN: 978-83-233-3921-2. (2019) (0)
Wolves in Ireland: a natural and cultural history. By Kieran Hickey. Pp 155. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011. £29.95. (2013) (0)
The impact of the Teutonic Order on the landscape of the Eastern Baltic: preliminary results of investigations on mire and lake sediments in Latvia (2013) (0)
The ecology of crusading: the environmental impact of conquest, colonisation and religious conversion in the medieval eastern Baltic (2013) (0)
Environment, colonization, and the Baltic crusader states: Terra Sacra I (2019) (0)
Transforming frontiers into heartlands: The immediate and long-term environmental impact of the crusades in NE Europe (2015) (0)
Sacred Hill (Święta Góra) in the Masurian Lakedland. An early Medieval Hillfort or a Military Camp from the Middle of the 17th Century? (2020) (0)
Geophysical survey at the frontier of medieval Iberia: The castles of Molina de Aragón and Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain) (2023) (0)
Daniela Marcu Istrate, Mihai Constantinescu, and Andrei Soficaru, The Medieval Cemetery from Sibiu (Hermannstadt) Huet Square: Archaeology, Anthropology, History. (Tübinger Forschungen zur historischen Archäologie 6.) Büchenbach: Verlag Dr. Faustus, 2015. Pp. 295; many color plates, black-and-white (2018) (0)
Vegetation change in the Great Mazurian Lake District during the medieval period: the impact of conquest and colonisation on a frontier ‘wilderness’ landscape (2013) (0)
Reviews (2015) (0)
Andrzej Buko. Archaeologia Polski Wczesno'sredniowiecznej: Odkrycia – hipotezy – interprtacje. The Archaeology of early Medieval Poland: Discoveries – hypotheses – interpretations; summary in English). 446 pages, 164 illustrations, 41 colour plates. 2005. Warszawa: Trio; 83-7436-023-2 hardback zl-46 (2007) (0)

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University of Reading