Peter Woodman FSA MRIA (2 July 1943 – 24 January 2017)[1] was an Irish archaeologist specialising in the Mesolithic period in Ireland. He was a professor emeritus at University College Cork and a former keeper of the Ulster Museum.
Woodman grew up in Holywood, County Down[1] and studied archaeology at Queen's University Belfast.[2] After obtaining his doctorate, he became the Assistant Keeper of Prehistoric Antiquities at the Ulster Museum.[1][2] In the 1970s he excavated Mesolithic sites at Mount Sandel, the oldest known site of human occupation in Ireland,[2][3][4] and Newferry in County Antrim.[2][5]
He became a professor at University College Cork in 1983,[1] where he continued his research into the Mesolithic period, discovering some of the first evidence of the Mesolithic from the Republic of Ireland at Ferriter’s Cove on the Dingle Peninsula.[1][6] After retiring, he published Ireland’s First Settlers: Time and the Mesolithic, bringing together fifty years of research into the Irish Mesolithic.[1][7]
Woodman was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1982.[1] He was awarded the Europa Prize by the Prehistoric Society in 2009, recognising outstanding contributions to the study of European prehistory.[8] In the same year, the Prehistoric Society organised a conference and published a festschrift in his honour.[9] Following Woodman's death in January 2017, James Mallory described him as QUB's "most illustrious archaeology graduate", whose work provided the "basic structure of all subsequent research into the Irish Mesolithic".[1]
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