Louise Steel (archaeologist)

Louise Steel
Louise Steel
Known for	Research on Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean prehistory Director of excavations at Arediou Vouppes, Cyprus
Title	Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Liverpool (B.A., 1988); University College London (Ph.D., 1993);
Thesis	'Burial Customs in Cyprus at the Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age' (1993)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Reading; University of Edinburgh; British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (Acting Director, 1998–2000); University of Wales Trinity Saint David;

Louise Steel is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity St David. Her research focuses on the prehistoric Mediterranean world, in particular Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as on themes of materiality and the human body. She conducts fieldwork in Cyprus at the Late Bronze Age site of Arediou Vouppes.