James Patrick Mallory (born October 25, 1945) is an American archaeologist and

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. Mallory is an emeritus professor at

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Career

J. P. Mallory was born in

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on October 25, 1945, the son of Clyde Francis and Rosemarie Mallory. Mallory received his A.B. in

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from

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in California in 1967, then served three years in the

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as a

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. He received his Ph.D. in

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in 1975 under the supervision of

Marija Gimbutas Marija Gimbutas ( lt, Marija Gimbutienė, ; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis ...

. 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

Books

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Edited volumes

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

References

Sources

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