Peter Woodman

Peter Woodman (2 July 1943 – 24 January 2017) 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.

Education and career Woodman grew up in Holywood, County Down After obtaining his doctorate, he became the Assistant Keeper of Prehistoric Antiquities at the Ulster Museum. and Newferry in County Antrim.

He became a professor at University College Cork in 1983, After retiring, he published Ireland’s First Settlers: Time and the Mesolithic, bringing together fifty years of research into the Irish Mesolithic.

Woodman was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1982. In the same year, the Prehistoric Society organised a conference and published a festschrift in his honour. 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".