Peter Woodman FSA MRIA (2 July 1943 – 24 January 2017)[1] was an Irish archaeologist specialising in the Mesolithic period in Ireland.
Woodman grew up in Holywood, County Down[1] and studied archaeology at Queen's University Belfast.
[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".