Academic career
Louise Steel studied Archaeology of the East Mediterranean at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 1988, and was awarded her PhD from University College London in 1993; her thesis was entitled "Burial Customs in Cyprus at the Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age". [6] She has worked at the University of Reading, the University of Edinburgh (as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, 1995–1998), and as acting director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, now the Kenyon Institute (1998-2000). [1] [6] She began working at the University of Lampeter, now part of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in 2000, and was promoted to Professor during the 2021–22 academic year. [6]
Steel directed an archaeological excavation and survey project at Arediou Vouppes, a Late Bronze Age rural settlement in Cyprus whose main occupation dates to the 13th century BCE, from 2004–2013. [5] [7] Arediou Vouppes' economic function may have been to produce agricultural surpluses to support nearby copper mining settlements. [8] The project also promoted engagement with archaeology by members of the local community through collaboration with local authorities, creating teaching materials for use in the local school, and conducting oral history interviews. [5] [8]
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