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 Zooarchaeology (sometimes called archaeozoology), also known as faunal analysis, is a branch of archaeology that studies remains of animals from archaeological sites. Faunal remains are the items left behind when an animal dies. These include bon ...

, ecology, biodiversity and human-animal relations. Pluskowski is the

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for the European Research Council-funded project "The Environmental Impact of Conquest and Colonisation in the Medieval Baltic".

Selected publications

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Aleks Pluskowski on the panel with Nora Berend and Martin Palmer. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pluskowski, Alexs British archaeologists Academics of the University of Reading