J. P. Mallory

This article is about the archaeologist. For the constitutional scholar, see James Mallory (jurist).

J. P. Mallory
Born	(1945-10-25)October 25, 1945 San Bernardino, California
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Occidental College University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor	Marija Gimbutas
Influences	Edgar C. Polomé
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology Linguistics
Sub discipline	Indo-European studies
Institutions	Queen's University Belfast
Main interests	Indo-European migrations
Notable works	In Search of the Indo-Europeans (1989) Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (1997)
Notable ideas	Kurgan hypothesis

James Patrick Mallory (born October 25, 1945) is an American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is an emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast; a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the former editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies and Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group (Belfast).

Career

J. P. Mallory was born in San Bernardino, California on October 25, 1945, the son of Clyde Francis and Rosemarie Mallory. 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 under the supervision of Marija Gimbutas. Together with Gimbutas, Edgar C. Polomé and other Indo-Europeanists, Mallory was involved in the founding of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.

Selected publications

Edited volumes

• J. P. Mallory & Brian M. Fagan, eds. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

See also

• David W. Anthony
• C. Scott Littleton
• A. Richard Diebold Jr.
• Jaan Puhvel

External links

• 'Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe' with J.P. Mallory on YouTube, University of Pennsylvania Museum (video)