2009 Press Releases

Professor Peter Woodman honoured
05.06.2009

Peter Woodman, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in UCC, has been awarded the Prehistoric Society's Europa Prize. The award was presented at a one-day conference held in his honour.
This  award is presented annually to a person, whom the  Council of the Prehistoric Society feels, has made an outstanding contribution to European Prehistory.  Although based in Britain the membership of the prehistoric society is drawn from around the world.  While  Professor Woodman has  worked for over  40 years to develop research on the  Mesolithic  Period in Ireland, excavating  at  key sites  from  Mount  Sandel in County Derry and  Ferriter's Cove in County Kerry, he  has  also contributed  significantly to the understanding  of  the  spread of human settlement at the end of the last  Ice age.  This included work in the Isle of Man and, in particular, in parts of arctic Norway and Russia.  

At the conference, colleagues from Britain and Scandinavia spoke on topics relating to Professor Woodman's research. Topics associated with the early Post glacial settlement of North western Europe and the spread of farming were discussed at a meeting of  the  Prehistoric Society held in York Museum on May 30th. Professor Woodman's  address titled "The  Pleasure of  finding things out; 50 years of living with the Irish Mesolithic" reviewed  how the study of this period had developed, the lessons to be learnt from regions as far apart as Finnmark in Norway and Tierra del Fuego.

Professor  Woodman was  also, to his  surprise, presented  with a "Festschrift" or edited collection of 21 essays  that had  been written by friends and colleagues. The  volume  titled  "From Bann Flakes"  to Bushmills"  covered  topics  that  related  to his research interests namely the study of  artefacts  and  museum collections, field work and the role of the environment in Early Post Glacial period in Europe.

Picture:  Professor Peter Woodman

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