A review by the_slackening
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth by J.P. Mallory

4.0

Very witty and interesting read, if dry at times. It is entertaining to read Mallory address the vast array of opinions in the field of linguistics, and he clearly emphasizes that no two linguists can agree on anything. Even his own final theory is not complete; he admits that it is not completely supported, but says that a theory left open to proving later is better than a theory that is impossible given current evidence. Overall, I thought the exploration of languages and their underlying similarities was very cool, but the delving into archaeological evidence was dense and it lost me.