Description: "This major achievement is the best, most gracefully written new study of earliest Ireland... Mallory bravely ponders: how much of Irish culture was a local invention and how much was influenced by neighbors, especially Britain . . . Essential."--Choice
Brief description: J. P. Mallory is a world expert on the interconnection of archaeology and linguistics and is the author of In Search of the Indo-Europeans and The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. He has published numerous other works, including the acclaimed The Origins of the Irish. He is emeritus professor of prehistoric archaeology at Queen's University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.