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Prof James Mallory

Prof J. P. MalloryProf J. P. Mallory
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology
AB, Cand. Phil, PhD

Email: j.mallory@qub.ac.uk

Address:

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK


Telephone (work): +44 (0)28 9097 3188

Current Teaching:

ARL2011 Prehistoric Ireland
ARL3027 Archaeology of Death
ARL2040 Archaeological Interpretation


Current Administrative Roles:

Director of Research (Past Cultural Change)
Work Experience Co-ordinator


Current Research (Past Cultural Change):

Indo-European origins and expansions
Social status in the Bronze Age of Xinjiang and  Central Asia
Proto-Celtic culture



Publications

Books

 [in press*] Excavations on Donegore Hill (with B. Hartwell, and E. Nelis). Bray, Wordwell
 2006  The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and The Proto-Indo-European World (with D. Q. Adams). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Articles/Chapters

 2001 He indoeuropaikhós glossikhé oikogéneia: to istorikhó zétema. Istoria tes Ellenikes Glossas, ed. A-Ph. Khristides, Thessalinike, Kentro Ellenikes Glossas, 135-141.

 2001 Where did the Indo-Europeans come from? The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World, ed. B. Fagan, London: Thames and Hudson, 141-143

 2001 The Tarim mummies: Who were they? The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World, ed. B. Fagan, London: Thames and Hudson, 167-170.

 2001 Gli Indoeuropei e i popoli delle steppe: il modello della sostituzione delle lingue. In Gianluca Bocchi and Mauro Ceruti (eds) Le radici prime dell'Europea, 138-164. Milan: Bruno Mondadori.

 2001 Uralics and Indo-Europeans: Problems of time and space. In C. Carpelan, A. Parpola and P. Koskikallio (eds) Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations, 345-366. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura.

 2002* Recent excavations and speculations on the Navan complex. Antiquity 76, 532-541,

 2002 Indo-Europeans and the steppelands: the model of language shift. In: Jones-Bley et al. (eds) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 1-27. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man.

 2002 Archaeological models and Asian Indo-Europeans. Proceedings of the British Academy 116, 19-42.

 2003* The date of Pazyryk. K. Boyle, C. Renfrew and M. Levine (eds) Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 199-211.

 2003 Indigenous Indo-Aryans: the preservation and total distribution principles. Journal of Indo-European Studies 30, 375-387.

 2004* Horse-mounted invaders from the Russo-Kazakh steppe or agricultural colonists from western Central Asia? A craniometric investigation of the Bronze Age settlement of Xinjiang  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124, 199-222.

 2004 Wheels and carts. The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World, ed. B. Fagan, London, Thames and Hudson, 134-137.

 2004 Emain Macha. Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, J. Donnelly (ed.), vol. 1, 214. Detroit, Thomson Gale.

 2005 Indo-European migration. Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, W. McNeill (ed), vol 3, 975-981. Great Barrington, Berkshire.

 2006 Irish origins: The archaeological, linguistic and genetic evidence. Migration and Myth: Ulster’s Revolving Door, ed.. B. S. Turner. Downpatrick, Ulster Local History Trust, 97-111.

 2006 Indo-European warfare. War and Sacrifice, eds. T. Pollard and I. Banks. Leiden, Brill, 77-98.


External Grant Funding:

Heritage Council of Ireland


Additional Information:
Editor, Journal of Indo-European Studies (Washington, DC)
Editor, Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group (Belfast)