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.
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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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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