Aleks Pluskowski

Alexs Pluskowski is an Associate 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 Principle Investigator for the European Research Council funded project "The Environmental Impact of Conquest and Colonisation in the Medieval Baltic".

Selected publications

• 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 1137526335
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2012), The archaeology of the Prussian Crusade : holy war and colonisation, Routledge, ISBN 0415691710
• Pluskowski, Aleks (2012), The ritual killing and burial of animals : European perspectives, Oxbow Books, cop, ISBN 1842174444
• 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 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, 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.