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  1. Native Identities after the Crusades

    Article • December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

  2. El legado de Andrew M. Watson en al-Andalus: nuevas perspectivas sobre la Revolución Verde Islámica

    Article • Anales de la Universidad de Alicante Historia Medieval, May 2025, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante

    Aleks Pluskowski

  3. The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Naomi sykes, Aleks Pluskowski

  4. The Challenges and Future of Environmental Archaeology in Mauritius

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aleks Pluskowski

  5. High clergy feasts and suburban suppers: Diet and social status in Medieval and Early Modern Tartu, Estonia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2023, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Antiquity, July 2023, Antiquity Publications

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Archaeological Prospection, March 2023, Wiley

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2022, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

  9. The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade

    Article • May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniel Abel-Schaad, Magdalena Fiłoc, Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, July 2021, Wiley

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Gianluca Piovesan, Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Antiquity, May 2020, Antiquity Publications

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2019, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Landscapes, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Landscapes, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2019, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Alex Brown, Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Quaternary International, March 2019, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Landscapes, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Quaternary International, December 2017, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

  28. 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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, February 2017, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

  29. Naomi Sykes:Beastly Questions. Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues

    Article • Norwegian Archaeological Review, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

  30. 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

    Article • Geoarchaeology, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Normunds Stivrins, Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • European Journal of Archaeology, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2014, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

  33. 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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2014, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Antiquity, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Aleks Pluskowski

  35. Medieval Landscape Transformation in the Southeast and Eastern Baltic: Palaeoenvironmental Perspectives on the Colanisation of Frontier Landscapes

    Article • Archaeologia BALTICA, December 2013, Klaipeda University Press

    Aleks Pluskowski

  36. New Technology or Adaptation at the Frontier? Butchery as a Signifier of Cultural Transitions in the Medieval Eastern Baltic

    Article • Archaeologia BALTICA, December 2013, Klaipeda University Press

    Aleks Pluskowski

  37. The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade

    Article • May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

  38. The Non-Adult Cohort from Le Morne Cemetery, Mauritius: A Snap Shot of Early Life and Death after Abolition

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, July 2012, Wiley

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Norwegian Archaeological Review, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

  41. 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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2011, Elsevier

    Aleks Pluskowski

  42. Witchcraft and Deep Time–a debate at Harvard

    Article • Antiquity, September 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • World Archaeology, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Aleks Pluskowski

  44. Potential osteoarchaeological evidence for riding and the military use of horses at Malbork Castle, Poland

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, March 2009, Wiley

    Aleks Pluskowski

  45. Where are the wolves? Investigating the scarcity of European grey wolf (Canis lupus lupus) remains in medieval archaeological contexts and its implications

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, January 2006, Wiley

    Aleks Pluskowski

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

    Article • European Journal of Archaeology, January 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Aleks Pluskowski

  47. Predators in Robes: Materialising and mystifying hunting, predation and seclusion in the northern European medieval landscape

    Article • January 2002, University of Basel

    Aleks Pluskowski

  48. Where the Wild Things are... Zones of Conflict with the Wilderness in Medieval Northern Europe

    Article • January 2002, University of Basel

    Aleks Pluskowski