Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture

James P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams

Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997 - Foreign Language Study - 829 pages

The "Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture" provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks and their origins. The "Encyclopedia" also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups-as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo- European cultural studies.
There are two kinds of entries in the "Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo-European languages; and b)" "those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.
With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field."

About the author

James Mallory is the author of the Merlin trilogy (Merlin: The Old Magic; Merlin: The King's Wizard; Merlin: The End of Magic). He lives in upstate New York.

J. P. Mallory is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Queen's University of Belfast. He holds a PhD in Indo-European Studies (1975) from the University of California. His books include In Search of the Indo-Europeans (1989) and, with Victor Mair, The Tarim Mummies: The Mystery of the First
Westerners in Ancient China (2000). He is currently the editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1996.
D. Q. Adams is Professor of English at the University of Idaho. He holds a PhD in Linguistics (1972) from the University of Chicago (1972). His published work includes An Introduction to Tocharian Historical Morphology (1988), A Dictionary of Tocharian B (1999), and numerous articles on
Indo-European and especially Tocharian topics.
J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams are the co-editors of the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (1997).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
• Editors: James P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
• ISBN: 1884964982, 9781884964985
• Length: 829 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General