Aleks Pluskowski

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.

Pluskowski is the principal investigator for the European Research Council-funded project "The Environmental Impact of Conquest and Colonisation in the Medieval Baltic".

Selected publications

• Trafford, Simon & Pluskowski, Aleks (2007). "Antichrist Superstars: The Vikings in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal". In Marshall, David W. (ed.). Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. pp. 57–73. ISBN 978-0-7864-2922-6.
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2015), "Before the werewolf trials: contextualising shape changers and animal identities in medieval north-western Europe.", in de Blécourt, Willem (ed.), Werewolf Histories, Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, ISBN 978-1137526335
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2012), The archaeology of the Prussian Crusade : holy war and colonisation, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415691710
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2012), The ritual killing and burial of animals : European perspectives, Oxbow Books, cop, ISBN 978-1842174449
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2010), "Animal Magic", in Carver, M O H; Sanmark, Alexandra; Semple, Sarah (eds.), Signals of Belief in Early England : Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited, Oxford, ISBN 978-1842177419
• Pluskowski, Aleks, "The tyranny of the Gingerbread House : contextualising the fear of wolves in medieval Northern Europe through material culture, ecology and folklore", Current Swedish Archaeology, Current Swedish archaeology, 2005(13), s. 141-160 : ill., ISSN 1102-7355, OCLC 937345312{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2002), Medieval animals, Archaeological review from Cambridge, v. 18., Dept. of Archaeology, Cambridge University, OCLC 52066056

External links

• Baltic Crusades, BBC Radio 4, In Our Time link. Aleks Pluskowski on the panel with Nora Berend and Martin Palmer.