Jacqui Wood

Career

She has published several papers in archaeology journals and conferences, and gave many lectures throughout Europe. She has also appeared on many television programmes about prehistoric dwellings and cooking. She also gave 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.

She also made a replica of the Orkney Hood (Britain’s oldest textile) for the Orkney Council, and replicas of various prehistoric dwellings.

Achievements

• As of 2001, she is director of Saveock Water Archaeology, and also the director and founder of Cornwall Celtic Village, a reconstructed Bronze-Iron Age settlement.

Membership

She was a member of the National Education Committee of the Council for British Archaeology (College of Business Administration) for three years, and secretary of the College of Business Administration for the south west region for another three years. As of 1995, she was a member of the General Committee of the Cornwall Archaeological Society and consultant to the Eden Project in Cornwall.