interesting but too academic

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

This book is very scholarly, with extremely detailed comparative linguistics as correlated with the archaeological record. I was looking for exactly that, but the general reader is warned. While the content is very intersting, it get mired in details from the names of obscure archaeological sites that are not in the book's lousy maps to the particular s…