J.P. Mallory
Archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist, author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans and co-author (with D. Q. Adams) of The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World; known for work on the archaeology and linguistics of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Books
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1. In Search Of The Indo Europeans
Language, Archaeology and Myth
A concise, scholarly synthesis that evaluates linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence to explore the origins, homeland, culture, and migrations of the Indo-European–speaking peoples; it surveys competing homeland hypotheses, reconstructs aspects of their economy and social life (pastoralism, wagons, horses, metallurgy), and traces how these communities spread across Eurasia while noting the methodological limits and ongoing debates in the field.
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4. The Origins Of The Irish
A concise synthetic account that traces the prehistoric peopling and cultural formation of Ireland by bringing together archaeology, linguistics, genetics, and myth; it surveys Mesolithic settlement, the Neolithic transition to farming, and later Bronze Age and Iron Age developments, examines the arrival and spread of Indo-European (Celtic/Goidelic) languages and material cultures, and evaluates competing models for migration, trade and population continuity to explain how ancient movements and interactions produced the distinct early Irish archaeological and linguistic landscape.
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