Aleks Pluskowski

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Professor
Areas of interest
- The environmental archaeology of medieval Europe, and especially zooarchaeology.
- Archaeology of crusading and frontier societies.
- The material culture of religious transformation, diversity and ritual practices in medieval Europe.
- Human impact on past environments.
- The cultural roles of large carnivores in the past and present.
Postgraduate supervision
Aleks is happy to discuss proposals for postgraduate research in any area of medieval European archaeology, especially relating to environmental approaches, including zooarchaeology, as well as archaeologies of crusading, migration, religious transformation, and frontier regions. He particularly welcomes proposals relating to the current EU-funded project “Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th - 16th centuries)”. This could be through the SWW DTP.
For further information, please contact a.g.pluskowski@reading.ac.uk.
Teaching
Professor Aleks Pluskowski teaches the archaeology of later medieval Europe and crusading. He also teaches zooarchaeology.Research centres and groups
Research projects
Current
- Re-thinking the "Green Revolution" in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th- 16th century) (ERC)
- Landscapes of (Re)Conquest: Dynamics of Multicultural Frontiers in Medieval South Western Europe
- Baltic Paganism, Osteology, and New Evidence from Zooarchaeology
- The Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Project
Past
- The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Conquest, Colonisation and Religious Conversion in Medieval Baltic (ERC)
- The Environmental Impact of Venetian Colonisation in the Medieval Mediterranean, part of The Heritage of the Serenissima project (collaborating with Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia).
Background
Aleks' research focuses on the relationship between nature and culture in medieval Europe, particularly within frontier societies associated with crusading, colonisation, cultural encounters and religious transformations.
Following a series of collaborative pilot projects at the castles associated with the Teutonic Order in Malbork (Poland), Feldioara (Transylvania, Romania) and Karksi (Estonia), he obtained a Starting Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for the Ecology of Crusading project (2010-2014, FP7/2007-2013, under grant agreement n° 263735) which examined the environmental impact of crusading, colonisation and religious transformation across the eastern Baltic. The results have been published as a series of papers and two volumes by Brepols (2019):
- Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States
- Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic
He also published The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: Holy War and Colonisation, the first synthesis in any language (Routledge, first edition 2013, second edition 2022). For Aleks' recommendation of books on the cultural impact of crusading, see here.
He has subsequently collaborated with the University of Granada on pilot projects to examine the dynamics of the multi-faith frontier societies of medieval Iberia, with the aim of developing a major research programme in South Western Europe. In 2018 he was awarded an AHRC Research Grant in collaboration with the universities of York and Granada for the project Landscapes of (Re)Conquest: Multi-Cultural Frontiers in Medieval South Western Europe. This will officially finish at the end of 2023, with publications expected in 2024-25.
In 2022, he was awarded an ERC Synergy Grant for the project “Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th - 16th centuries)” (grant agreement n° 101071726). This consortium involves the universities of Reading, Barcelona, Granada, York, UCL, Basel, València, Murcia and INSAP (Rabat). The project, which began in June 2023 and runs for six years, will investigate the relationship between cultural and environmental change across the Western Mediterranean over a period of 1000 years.
Within the broader framework of his research projects, his own specialist focus has been zooarchaeology and inter-disciplinary perspectives of human-animal relations. He is the author of Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages (Boydell, 2006), which compares human responses to wolves and their shared environments in medieval Britain and Scandinavia. He has published several articles on responses to the wolf in the Middle Ages, as well as on the treatment of exotic animals, hunting space and animals as material culture in medieval society. He continues to be interested in human responses to large carnivores in the past and present, around the world. For several years he worked on the zooarchaeology of Venetian colonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean, collaborating with a team from the Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia, led by Professor Sauro Gellichi and based on excavations in north Italy and Montenegro.
Aleks is also involved in the MACH (Mauritius Archaeology and Cultural Heritage) project, focusing on the environmental impact of post-medieval colonisation and colonialism. He has edited volumes on the topic of medieval animals and initiated the "Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages" conference series, which has been held in Cambridge (2005), Foggia (2006), Vienna (2007) and Budapest (2008). He also helped set up the "Medieval Animals Database", in collaboration with the Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Krems and the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Editor of the journal Medieval Archaeology, and a committee member of MERC (Medieval European Research Community). He is regularly involved in organising and moderating sessions at international conferences, particularly those of the EAA (European Association of Archaeologists).
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
- European Association of Archaeologists.
- Medieval European Research Community.
- Professional Zooarchaeology Group
Publications
- Kirchner, H. , García-Contreras, G. , Fenwick, C. , Pluskowski, A. (2023) Re-thinking the ‘green revolution’ in the Mediterranean world. Antiquity ISSN: 1745-1744 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.91
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García-Contreras Ruiz, G.
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Fry, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9711-1131 , Banerjea, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1786-357X , Pluskowski, A. (2023) Geophysical survey at the frontier of medieval Iberia: the castles of Molina de Aragón and Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain). Archaeological Prospection ISSN: 1099-0763 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/arp.1899
- Pluskowski, A. (2022) The archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: holy war and colonisation. 2nd edition. Routledge , London. pp 468. ISBN: 9781032120416 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003222767
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Izdebski, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3456-5478 , Guzowski, P.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6494-4217 , Poniat, R. , Masci, L.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1829-8418 , Palli, J. , Vignola, C. , Bauch, M. , Cocozza, C.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8614-5459 , Fernandes, R. , Ljungqvist, F.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0220-3947 , Newfield, T.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1451-5024 , Seim, A. , Abel-Schaad, D.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3915-8342 , Alba-Sánchez, F.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0387-1533 , Björkman, L. , Brauer, A. , Brown, A. , Czerwiński, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3422-040X , Ejarque, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9101-5299 , Fiłoc, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1226-2676 , Florenzano, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4759-6406 , Fredh, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1787-6976 , Fyfe, R. , Jasiunas, N. , Kołaczek, P. , Kouli, K.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1656-1091 , Kozáková, R. , Kupryjanowicz, M. , Lagerås, P.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2804-8028 , Lamentowicz, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0429-1530 , Lindbladh, M. , López-Sáez, J. , Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4505-2416 , Marcisz, K.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2655-9729 , Mazier, F.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2643-0925 , Mensing, S. , Mercuri, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6138-4165 , Milecka, K. , Miras, Y.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4055-4134 , Noryśkiewicz, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9481-8684 , Novenko, E. , Obremska, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3465-1894 , Panajiotidis, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1236-9000 , Papadopoulou, M. , Pędziszewska, A. , Pérez-Díaz, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2702-0058 , Piovesan, G.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3214-0839 , Pluskowski, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4494-7664 , Pokorny, P. , Poska, A. , Reitalu, T.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6555-3066 , Rösch, M. , Sadori, L.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2774-6705 , Sá Ferreira, C. , Sebag, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6446-6921 , Słowiński, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3011-2682 , Stančikaitė, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9425-5634 , Stivrins, N. , Tunno, I. , Veski, S. , Wacnik, A.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1104-0705 , Masi, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9822-9767 (2022) Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 pp. 297-306. ISSN: 2397-334X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01652-4
- Wiejacka, M. , Makowiecki, D. , Opelkova, M. , Wiewióra, M. , Pluskowski, A. (2022) Birds at the Teutonic Order's castles in Prussia (Poland). Quaternary International , 626-627 pp. 133-141. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.11.023
- Makowiecki, D. , Ritchie, K. , Pluskowski, A. (2021) The cultural roles of perforated fish vertebrae in prehistoric and historic Europe. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology , 31 (6). pp. 1125-1137. ISSN: 1099-1212 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.3025
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García-García, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2080-5098 , García-Contreras, G.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0655-7067 , Alexander, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8000-3639 , Banerjea, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1786-357X , Pluskowski, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4494-7664 (2021) The zooarchaeological identification of a ‘Morisco’ community after the Christian conquest of Granada (Spain, early 16th century): sociocultural continuities and economic innovations. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 13 (3). pp. 57. ISSN: 1866-9565 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01288-2
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Brown, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6943-645X and Pluskowski, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4494-7664 (2021) Power centres and marginal landscapes: Tracking pre- and post-conquest (late Iron Age and Medieval) land-use in the Cēsis Castle hinterland, Central Latvia. Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology , 26 (4). pp. 471-486. ISSN: 1461-4103 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2020.1790082
- Dobrosielska, A. , Pluskowski, A. , Szczepański, S. , eds. (2020) Homini, qui in honore fuit : księga pamiątkowa poświęcona śp. profesorowi Grzegorzowi Białuńskiemu. Towarzystwo Naukowe Pruthenia , Olsztyn.
- García-Contreras, G. , Pluskowski, A. , Alexander, M. , Banerjea, R. , García, M. (2020) Landscapes of (re)conquest: dynamics of multicultural frontiers in medieval South-west Europe. Antiquity , 94 (375). ISSN: 0003-598X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.76
- Banerjea, R. , Badura, M. , Brown, A. , Morandi, L. , Marcinkowski, M. , Valk, H. , Ismail-Meyer, K. , Pluskowski, A. (2020) Feeding the crusades: archaeobotany, animal husbandry and livestock alimentation on the Baltic frontier. Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human Palaeoecology , 25 (2). pp. 135-150. ISSN: 1461-4103 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2019.1589924
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Pluskowski, A.
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Banerjea, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1786-357X , García-Contreras, G. (2019) Forgotten castle landscapes: connecting monuments and landscapes through heritage and research. Landscapes , 20 (2). pp. 89-97. ISSN: 2040-8153 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1857909
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Banerjea, R.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1786-357X , García-Contreras Ruiz, G. , Kalniņš, G. , Karczewski, M. , Pluskowski, A. , Valk, H. , Brown, A. (2019) Geoarchaeology and castlescapes: heritage management case studies in Spain and the eastern Baltic. Landscapes , 20 (2). ISSN: 2040-8153 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2020.1861716
- Brown, A. , Poska, A. , Pluskowski, A. (2019) The environmental impact of cultural change: palynological and quantitative land cover reconstructions for the last two millennia in northern Poland. Quaternary International , 522 pp. 38-54. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.05.014
- Babos, H. , Black, S. , Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Rohrssen, M. , Chappaz, A. (2019) Evidence for the onset of mining activities during the 13th century in Poland using lead isotopes from lake sediment cores. Science of the Total Environment , 683 pp. 589-599. ISSN: 0048-9697 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.177
- Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Banerjea, R. , Makowiecki, D. , Seetah, K. , Rannamäe, E. , Jarzebowski, M. , Kreem, J. , Klavins, K. (2019) From the convent to the commandery: the pivotal role of the environment in defining the medieval Baltic Ordensland. Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens , 81 pp. 55-87.
- Pluskowski, A. , Makowiecki, D. , Maltby, M. , Rannamäe, E. , Lõugas, L. , Maldre, L. , Daugnora, L. , Black, S. , Müldner, G. , Seetah, K. (2019) The Baltic Crusades and ecological transformation: the zooarchaeology of conquest and cultural change in the Eastern Baltic in the second millennium AD. Quaternary International , 510 pp. 28-53. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.11.039
- Pluskowski, A. , eds. (2019) Ecologies of crusading, colonization, and religious conversion in the medieval Baltic: Terra Sacra II. , 2. Brepols , Turnhout, Belgium. ISBN: 9782503551333
- Pluskowski, A. , eds. (2019) Environment, colonization, and the Baltic crusader states: Terra Sacra I. , 1. Brepols , Turnhout, Belgium. ISBN: 9782503551326
- Pluskowski, A. , Seetah, K. , Maltby, M. , Banerjea, R. , Black, S. , Kalnins, G. (2018) Late-medieval horse remains at Cēsis castle, Latvia, and the Teutonic Order’s equestrian resources in Livonia. Medieval Archaeology , 62 (2). pp. 351-379. ISSN: 0076-6097 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2018.1535385
- Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Szczepański, S. , Banerjea, R. , Makowiecki, D. (2018) What does a frontier look like? The biocultural dynamics of the Lower Vistula borderland in the Middle Ages.
- Pluskowski, A. , Valk, H. , Szczepański, S. (2018) Theocratic rule, native agency and transformation: post-crusade sacred landscapes in the eastern Baltic. Landscapes , 19 (1). pp. 4-24. ISSN: 1466-2035 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2018.1561009
- Pluskowski, A. (2018) The archaeology of the military orders: the material culture of holy war. Medieval Archaeology , 62 (1). pp. 105-134. ISSN: 0076-6097 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2018.1451590
- Thomas, G. , Pluskowski, A. , Gilchrist, R. , Ruiz, G. , Andrén, A. , Augenti, A. , Astill, G. , Staecker, J. , Valk, H. (2017) Religious transformations in the Middle Ages: towards a new archaeological agenda. Medieval Archaeology , 61 (2). pp. 300-329. ISSN: 0076-6097 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2017.1374764
- Brown, A. , Badura, M. , King, G. , Gos, K. , Cerina, A. , Kalnina, L. , Pluskowski, A. (2017) 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. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 11 pp. 674-682. ISSN: 2352-409X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.01.016
- Banerjea, R. , Badura, M. , Kalejs, U. , Cerina, A. , Gos, K. , Hamilton-Dyer, S. , Maltby, M. , Seetah, K. , Pluskowski, A. (2017) A multi-proxy, diachronic and spatial perspective on the urban activities within an indigenous community in medieval Riga, Latvia. Quaternary International , 460 pp. 3-21. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.006
- Pluskowski, A. and Valk, H. (2016) Conquest and Europeanisation: the archaeology of the crusades in Livonia, Prussia and Lithuania. In: Boas, A. , (eds.) The Crusader World. Routledge , London. pp. 568-592. ISBN: 9780415824941 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315684154
- Brown, A. , Banerjea, R. , Dawn-Wynne, A. , Stivrins, N. , Jarzebowski, M. , Shillito, L. , Pluskowski, A. (2015) 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. Geoarchaeology , 30 (6). pp. 511-527. ISSN: 0883-6353 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21525
- Sawicki, Z. , Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Badura, M. , Shillito, L. , Makowiecki, D. , Zabilska-Kunek, M. , Seetah, K. (2015) Survival at the frontier of Holy War: political expansion, crusading, commerce and the medieval colonizing settlement at Biała Gora, North Poland. European Journal of Archaeology , 18 (2). pp. 282-311. ISSN: 1461-9571 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000071
- Pluskowski, A. (2015) Before the werewolf trials: contextualising shape changers and animal identities in medieval north-western Europe. In: De Blecourt, W. , (eds.) Werewolf Histories. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke, Hampshire. pp. 82-118. ISBN: 9781137526335
- Appleby, J. , Seetah, T. , Calaon, D. , Caval, S. , Pluskowski, A. , Lafleur, J. , Janoo, A. , Teelock, V. (2014) The non-adult cohort from Le Morne cemetery, Mauritius: a snap shot of early life and death after abolition. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology , 24 (6). pp. 737-746. ISSN: 1047482X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.2259
- Pluskowski, A. , Sawicki, Z. , Shillito, L. , Badura, M. , Makowiecki, D. , Zabilska-Kunek, M. , Seetah, K. , Brown, A. (2014) Biała Góra: the forgotten colony in the Medieval Pomeranian-Prussian borderlands. Antiquity , 88 (341). pp. 863-882. ISSN: 0003-598X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00050742
- Banerjea, R. , Karczewski, M. , Karczewska, M. , Pluskowski, A. (2013) The role of geoarchaeology in understanding the formation and function of of Święta Góra (Staświny), Masuria, Poland: interim results from Feature 40. In: Hoffmann, M. , Karczewski, M. , Wadyl, S. , (eds.) I Warmińsko-Mazurska Sesja Sprawozdawcza za lata 2008-2012 poświęcona pamięci prof. J. Okulicza-Kozaryna : książka abstraktów.. Ośrodek Badań Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej , Białystok. ISBN: 9788392577256
- Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Banerjea, R. , Shillito, L. , Makowiecki, D. , Seetah, K. , Jarzebowski, M. , Klavins, K. , Kreem, J. (2013) The ecology of crusading: the environmental impact of conquest, colonisation and religious conversion in the medieval eastern Baltic. In: Hoffman, M. , Karczewski, M. , Wadyl, S. , (eds.) I Warmińsko-Mazurska Sesja Sprawozdawcza za lata 2008-2012 poświęcona pamięci prof. J. Okulicza-Kozaryna : książka abstraktów. Ośrodek Badań Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej , Białystok. ISBN: 9788392577256
- Brown, A. , Pluskowski, A. , Karczewski, M. (2013) Vegetation change in the Great Mazurian Lake District during the medieval period: the impact of conquest and colonisation on a frontier ‘wilderness’ landscape. In: Hoffmann, M. , Karczewski, M. , Wadyl, S. , (eds.) I Warmińsko-Mazurska Sesja Sprawozdawcza za lata 2008-2012 poświęcona pamięci prof. J. Okulicza-Kozaryna : książka abstraktów. Ośrodek Badań Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej , Białystok. ISBN: 9788392577256
- Brown, A. and Pluskowski, A. (2013) The impact of the Teutonic Order on the landscape of the Eastern Baltic: preliminary results of investigations on mire and lake sediments in Latvia. In: Kļaviņš, M. and Kalniņa, L. , (eds.) Bog and lake research in Latvia. University of Latvia Press , Riga. pp. 62-74. ISBN: 978998445697
- Valk, H. , Brown, A. , Rannamäe, E. , Badura, M. , Lõugas, L. , Pluskowski, A. (2013) Thirteenth century cultural deposits at the castle of the Teutonic Order in Karksi. Archaeological Fieldwork in Estonia , AVE 2012 pp. 73-92. ISSN: 1406-3972
- Pluskowski, A. (2013) The castle and the warren: Medieval East Anglian fur culture in context. In: Bates, D. and Liddiard, R. , (eds.) East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages. Boydell , Woodbridge. pp. 152-173. ISBN: 9781843838463
- Pluskowski, A. (2013) The dragon's skull: how can zooarchaeologists contribute to our understanding of otherness in the Middle Ages?. In: Garcia, F. , Vadillo, M. , Picaza, M. , (eds.) Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages. BAR International Series 2500 Archaeopress , Oxford. pp. 109-124. ISBN: 9781407311166
- Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Girininkas, A. , eds. (2013) Frontier societies and environmental change in northeast Europe: introduction. In: Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Stančikaitė, M. , Daugnora, L. , (eds.) Archaeologia Baltica , 20 pp. 7-8. ISSN: 1392-5520 (Pluskowski, A., Brown, A., Stančikaitė, M., Daugnora, L (eds.) Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in northeast Europe. )
- Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Stančikaitė, M. , Daugnora, L. , eds. (2013) Frontier societies and environmental change in northeast Europe. Archaeologia Baltica 20 Klaipeda University Press , Klaipeda. ISSN: 1392-5520 (edited journal issue)
- Brown, A. and Pluskowski, A. (2013) Medieval landscape transformation in the south-eastern and eastern Baltic: palaeoenvironmental perspectives on the colonization of frontier landscapes. Archaeologia Baltica , 20 pp. 24-46. ISSN: 1392-5520 (Pluskowski, A., Brown, A., Stančikaitė, M., Daugnora, L (eds.) Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in northeast Europe. )
- Pluskowski, A. and Brown, A. (2013) From forest to field: the changing environment of Medieval Prussia. In: Pluskowski, A. , (eds.) The archaeology of the Prussian Crusades: Holy War and Colonisation. Routledge , London. pp. 294-336. ISBN: 9780415691703
- Valk, H. , Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Rannamäe, E. , Malve, M. , Varul, L. (2012) The castle of the Teutonic Order in Karksi: preliminary excavation results. Archaeological Fieldwork in Estonia , 2011 pp. 47-56. ISSN: 1406-3972
- Carson, S. , Shillito, L. , Brown, A. , Pluskowski, A. (2012) Environmental assessment of samples from the castle site at Grudziądz, Poland. In: Wiewióra, M. , (eds.) Zamek w Grudziądzu w świetle badań archeologiczno-architektonicznych. UMK , Toruń. ISBN: 9788323128687
- Pluskowski, A. (2012) The archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: holy war and colonisation. Routledge , London. pp 427. ISBN: 9780415691703
- Pluskowski, A. (2011) The archaeology of paganism. In: Hamerow, H. , Hinton, D. , Crawford, S. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 764-778. ISBN: 9780199212149
- Pluskowski, A. , Boas, A. , Gerrard, C. (2011) The ecology of crusading: investigating the environmental impact of holy war and colonisation at the frontiers of medieval Europe. Medieval Archaeology , 55 pp. 192-225. ISSN: 1745-817X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174581711X13103897378564
- Pluskowski, A. , Brown, A. , Shillito, L. , Seetah, K. , Makowiecki, D. , Jarzebowski, M. , Klavins, K. , Kreem, J. (2011) The ecology of crusading project: new research on medieval Baltic landscapes. Antiquity ISSN: 0003-598X
- Brown, A. and Pluskowski, A. (2011) 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. Journal of Archaeological Science , 38 (8). pp. 1957-1966. ISSN: 0305-4403 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.04.010
- Pluskowski, A. (2010) Constructing exotic animals and environments in late Medieval Britain. In: Page, S. , (eds.) The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain. Neale UCL Studies in British History Manchester University Press , Manchester. ISBN: 9780719078354
- Pluskowski, A. (2010) The wolf. In: O'Connor, T. and Sykes, N. , (eds.) Extinctions and invasions: a social history of British fauna. Windgather Press , Oxford. pp. 68-74. ISBN: 9781905119318
- Pluskowski, A. (2010) The zooarchaeology of medieval Christendom: ideology, the treatment of animals and the making of medieval Europe. World Archaeology , 42 (2). pp. 201-214. ISSN: 0043-8243 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438241003672815
- Mitchell, S. , Price, N. , Hutton, R. , Purkiss, D. , Patton, K. , Raudvere, C. , Severi, C. , Aldhouse-Green, M. , Semple, S. , Pluskowski, A. , Carver, M. , Ginzburg, C. (2010) Witchcraft and deep time - a debate at Harvard. Antiquity , 84 (325). pp. 864-879. ISSN: 0003-598X
- Pluskowski, A. , Seetah, K. , Maltby, M. (2010) Potential osteoarchaeological evidence for riding and the military use of horses at the castle in Malbork, Poland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology , 20 (3). pp. 335-343. ISSN: 1099-1212 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.1048
- Maltby, M. , Pluskowski, A. , Seetah, K. (2009) Animal bones from an industrial quarter at Malbork: towards an ecology of a castle built in Prussia by the Teutonic Order. Crusades , 8 pp. 191-212. ISSN: 1476-5276
- Valk, H. , Pluskowski, A. , Thornley, D. , Brown, A. , Summerfield, C. (2009) Fluxgate gradiometry survey in the ruins of Karski Castle and palaeoenvironmental analysis in its hinterlands. Archaeological Fieldwork in Estonia pp. 213-229.
- Pluskowski, A. (2009) What is exotic? Sources of animals and animal products from the edges of the medieval world. In: Jaritz, . and Kreem, . , (eds.) The Edges of the Medieval World. pp. 113-129.
- Pluskowski, A. and Seetah, K. (2008) The animal bones. In: Gelichi, S. , Piuzzi, F. , Cianciosi, A. , (eds.) Sachuidic presso forni superiore: ricerche archeologiche in un castello della carnia. All'Insegna del Giglio , Florence. pp. 98-103.
- Trafford, S. and Pluskowski, A. (2007) Antichrist superstars: the Vikings in hard rock and heavy metal. In: Marshall, . , (eds.) Mass Market Medieval: essays on the Middle Ages in popular culture. McFarland , Jefferson. pp. 57-73. ISBN: 9780786429226
- Pluskowski, A. (2007) Who ruled the forests? An inter-disciplinary approach towards medieval hunting landscapes. In: Hartmann, . , (eds.) Fauna and Flora in the Middle Ages. Peter Lang , Frankfurt. pp. 291-323. ISBN: 9783631563021
- Pluskowski, A. (2007) Communicating through skin and bone: the appropriation of animal bodies in medieval western seigneurial culture . In: Pluskowski, . , (eds.) Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: animals as material culture in the Middle Ages. Oxbow Books , Oxford. pp. 32-51. ISBN: 978-1-84217-218-6