J. P. Mallory
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James Patrick Mallory is an Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast.

Biography

Mallory received his A.B. in History from Occidental College in California in 1967, then served three years in the US Army as a military police sergeant. He received his Ph.D. in Indo-European studies from UCLA in 1975. He has held several posts at Queen's beginning in 1977, becoming Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in 1998.

Professor Mallory's research has focused on Early Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, the problem of the homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and the archaeology of early Ireland. He favors an integrative approach to these issues, comparing literary, linguistic and archaeological evidence to solve historical puzzles.

One consequence of this preference for an integrated approach is that Professor Mallory has been strongly critical of the widely publicised theory of Indo-European origins held by Colin Renfrew which locates the urheimat or homeland of this language family in early Neolithic Anatolia and associates its spread with the spread of agriculture. A key element of his criticism has been a vigorous defence of lingustic palaeontology as a valid tool for solving the Indo-European homeland problem, arguing that Renfrew is sceptical about it precisely because it offers some of the strongest evidence against the latter's own model. Professor Mallory recently published a new book with D.Q. Adams, entitled The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World and published by Oxford University Press, where doubtless the debate with Renfrew will resume in earnest.

He is the editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, published by the Institute for the Study of Man of which Roger Pearson is the founding editor.

Major works

Books

• Mallory, JP (1989). In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500276161. 
• Mallory, JP; T.E. McNeill (1991). The Archaeology of Ulster. Belfast: Dufour Editions. ISBN 0853893535. 
• Mallory, JP & Adams, DQ (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, ISBN 1884964982 
• Mallory, JP; Victor H. Mair (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500051011. 
• Mallory, JP & Adams, DQ (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, USA: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199296682 

Articles

• Mallory, JP; R. Blench and M. Spriggs, eds. (1997). "The Homelands of the Indo-Europeans". Archaeology and Language I: 93–121. London and New York: Routledge. 
• Mallory, JP; K. Jones-Bley and M. E. Huld, eds. (1993). "The Indo-European homeland problem: A matter of time". Journal of Indo-European Studies Monography 17: 1–22. 
• Mallory, JP; J. Jasanoff, H. Melchert, L. Oliver, eds. (1998). "The Old Irish Chariot". Mír Curad: Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins: 451–464. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beitrage zur Sprachwissenschaft. 

External links

• Prof. Mallory's Academic Homepage at QUB <bad link
• Journal of Indo-European Studies portal