Aleks Pluskowski is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. His areas of research include the environmental archaeology of medieval Europe, especially

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

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for the

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

Selected publications

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References

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Aleks Pluskowski on the panel with Nora Berend and

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pluskowski, Alexs British archaeologists Academics of the University of Reading