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List of works by Aleks Pluskowski

A multi-proxy, diachronic and spatial perspective on the urban activities within an indigenous community in medieval Riga, Latvia

Agricultural Landscapes of Al-Andalus, and the Aftermath of the Feudal Conquest

Aims and methods: medieval archaeology and the sciences

chapter published in 2011 in The Archaeology of Medieval Europe: Vol. 2

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

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Biała Góra: the forgotten colony in the medieval Pomeranian-Prussian borderlands

Big Data Palaeoecology reveals significant variation in Black Death mortality in Europe

Birds at the Teutonic Order's castles in Prussia (Poland)

scientific article published in November 2020

Book Reviews

Comments on Camilla Olofsson: Making New Antlers: Depositions of Animal Skulls and Antlers as a Message of Regeneration in South Sámi Grave Context

Communicating through skin and bone: the appropriation of animal bodies in medieval western seigneurial culture

chapter published in 2007

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

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Druidism and Neo‐Paganism

Estimating molecular preservation of the intestinal microbiome via metagenomic analyses of latrine sediments from two medieval cities

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Evidence for the onset of mining activities during the 13th century in Poland using lead isotopes from lake sediment cores

scientific article published on 19 May 2019

Feeding the Crusades: Archaeobotany, Animal Husbandry and Livestock Alimentation on the Baltic Frontier

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Forgotten Castle Landscapes: Connecting Monuments and Landscapes through Heritage and Research

Geoarchaeology and Castlescapes: Heritage Management Case Studies in Spain and the Eastern Baltic

scientific article published on 3 July 2019

Geophysical survey at the frontier of medieval Iberia: The castles of Molina de Aragón and Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain)

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

scientific article published in September 2014

Landscapes of (re)conquest: dynamics of multicultural frontiers in medieval South-west Europe

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Late-Medieval Horse Remains at Cēsis Castle, Latvia, and the Teutonic Order’s Equestrian Resources in Livonia

article published in 2018

Micromorphological and geochemical investigation of formation processes in the refectory at the castle of Margat (Qal'at al-Marqab), Syria

Naomi Sykes:Beastly Questions. Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues

scholarly article by Aleks Pluskowski published in January 2016

Narwhals or Unicorns? Exotic Animals as Material Culture in Medieval Europe

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Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic

scientific article published in March 2022

Power Centres and Marginal Landscapes: Tracking Pre- and Post-Conquest (Late Iron Age and Medieval) Land-Use in the Cēsis Castle Hinterland, Central Latvia

scientific article published on 9 July 2020

Re-thinking the ‘Green Revolution’ in the Mediterranean world

scientific article published in 2023

Religious Transformations in the Middle Ages: Towards a New Archaeological Agenda

Survival at the Frontier of Holy War: Political Expansion, Crusading, Environmental Exploitation and the Medieval Colonizing Settlement at Biała Góra, North Poland

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The Archaeology of Paganism

The Archaeology of the Military Orders: The Material Culture of Holy War

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The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: Holy War and Colonisation

book published in 2013

The Baltic Crusades and ecological transformation: The zooarchaeology of conquest and cultural change in the Eastern Baltic in the second millennium AD

scientific article

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

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The Ecology of Crusading: Investigating the Environmental Impact of Holy War and Colonisation at the Frontiers of Medieval Europe

The Medieval Wild

The Rural World in the Sixteenth Century. Exploring the Archaeology of Innovation in Europe

The cultural roles of perforated fish vertebrae in prehistoric and historic Europe

scientific article published on 12 July 2021

The environmental impact of cultural change: Palynological and quantitative land cover reconstructions for the last two millennia in northern Poland

scientific article published in 2019

The tame and the wild

chapter published in 2011 in The Archaeology of Medieval Europe: Vol. 2

The trade in exotic beasts

chapter published in 2011 in The Archaeology of Medieval Europe: Vol. 2

The zooarchaeological identification of a ‘Morisco’ community after the Christian conquest of Granada (Spain, early 16th century): sociocultural continuities and economic innovations

The zooarchaeology of medieval ‘Christendom’: ideology, the treatment of animals and the making of medieval Europe

scientific article published in June 2010

Theocratic Rule, Native Agency and Transformation: Post-Crusade Sacred Landscapes in the Eastern Baltic

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Witchcraft and Deep Time–a debate at Harvard

scientific article published in September 2010

“How do you pray to God?” Fragmentation and variety in early medieval Christianity

chapter published in 2003