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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