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.{{cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/a-g-pluskowski.aspx |title=Dr Aleks Pluskowski|publisher=University of Reading |date= |access-date=2016-11-28}}
Pluskowski is the principal investigator for the European Research Council-funded project "The Environmental Impact of Conquest and Colonisation in the Medieval Baltic".{{cite web|url=http://www.ecologyofcrusading.com |title=Ecology of Crusading |publisher=Ecology of Crusading |date= |access-date=2016-11-28}}{{cite web |author=Live Science|url=http://www.livescience.com/25302-baltic-crusades-caused-deforestation-extinctions.html |title=Baltic Crusades Caused Extinctions, End to Pagan Practices |publisher=Livescience.com |date=2012-12-09 |access-date=2016-11-28}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna50147480 |title=Crusades left ecological, cultural scars - LiveScience |work=NBC News |date=2012-12-10 |access-date=2016-11-28}}
Selected publications
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- {{Cite book | last1 = Trafford | first1 = Simon | last2 = Pluskowski | first2 = Aleks | editor1-last = Marshall | editor1-first = David W. | title = Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture | date = 2007 | publisher = McFarland & Co. | location = Jefferson, NC | pages = 57–73 | chapter = Antichrist Superstars: The Vikings in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal | chapter-url = https://www.academia.edu/521897 | isbn = 978-0-7864-2922-6 | name-list-style = amp }}
- {{citation |first=Aleks|last=Pluskowski|editor-last=de Blécourt |editor-first=Willem |year=2015 |title=Werewolf Histories |publisher=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |series=Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic. |isbn=978-1137526335 | chapter=Before the werewolf trials: contextualising shape changers and animal identities in medieval north-western Europe.}}
- {{citation |last=Pluskowski |first=Aleks |year=2012 |title=The archaeology of the Prussian Crusade : holy war and colonisation |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415691710}}
- {{citation |last=Pluskowski |first=Aleks |year=2012 |title=The ritual killing and burial of animals : European perspectives |publisher=Oxbow Books, cop |isbn=978-1842174449}}
- {{citation |editor-last=Carver |editor-first=M O H |year=2010 |title=Signals of Belief in Early England : Anglo-Saxon paganism revisited |editor-last2=Sanmark |editor-first2=Alexandra |editor-last3=Semple |editor-first3=Sarah |publisher=Oxford |isbn=978-1842177419 |first=Aleks |last=Pluskowski |chapter=Animal Magic}}
- {{citation |last=Pluskowski |first=Aleks |title=The tyranny of the Gingerbread House : contextualising the fear of wolves in medieval Northern Europe through material culture, ecology and folklore |journal=Current Swedish Archaeology |location=Current Swedish archaeology, 2005(13), s. 141-160 : ill. |issn=1102-7355 |oclc=937345312}}
- {{citation |last=Pluskowski |first=Aleks |year=2002 |title=Medieval animals |publisher=Dept. of Archaeology, Cambridge University |series=Archaeological review from Cambridge, v. 18. |oclc=52066056}}
References
External links
- Baltic Crusades, BBC Radio 4, In Our Time [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0832rmz link]. Aleks Pluskowski on the panel with Nora Berend and Martin Palmer.
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