Jacqui Wood

Jacqui Wood (born 4 January 1950) is a British experimental archaeologist and writer, specialising in the daily life of prehistoric Europeans.

She has also appeared on TV programmes about prehistoric dwellings and cooking, including episode 8 of series 11 of Time Team.

She has also given demonstrations of Bronze Age technology for English Heritage, researched the grass cloak of Ötzi the Iceman, as well as his shoes (which she believes are actually snowshoes), and made replicas of them for the Bolzano museum devoted to the mummy.

[4] Wood has excavated a site at Saveock Water which she has interpreted as evidence of early modern witchcraft.

[5][6] She has written two fantasy novels set in prehistory, Cliff Dreamers and Return to the Temple of the Mother.