This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English.
Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book J. P. Mallory wrote. His sole concern in The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes to do this by applying the results of new genetic studies and, combining them with the evidence already provided by other disciplines, finally answering a question that, for over two centuries (and really two millennia), has confounded a phalanx of
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