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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.
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