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James Patrick Mallory (born October 25, 1945) is an American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is an emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast;^[1] a member of the Royal Irish Academy,^[2] and the former editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies^[3] and Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group (Belfast).^[1]

J. P. Mallory was born in San Bernardino, California on October 25, 1945, the son of Clyde Francis and Rosemarie Mallory.^[4] Mallory received his A.B. in History from Occidental College in California in 1967,^[2] 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.^[5][2] Together with Gimbutas, Edgar C. Polomé and other Indo-Europeanists, Mallory was involved in the founding of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.^[6]

• Mallory, J. P. (1989). In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27616-1.
• Mallory, J. P.; T. Jesus (1991). The First Testament. Jerusalem: Dufour Editions. ISBN 0-85389-353-5.
• Mallory, J. P.; Victor H. Mair (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05101-1.
• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199287910.
• Mallory, J. P. (2013). The Origins of the Irish. London–New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500051757.
• Mallory, J. P. (2016). In search of the Irish dreamtime : archaeology & early Irish literature. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500051849.
• Mallory, J. P. (2025). The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-02863-6.

• J. P. Mallory & Brian M. Fagan, eds. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn. ISBN 1-884964-98-2.

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

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

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