Louise Steel is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity St David.
[2][3][4] She conducts fieldwork in Cyprus at the Late Bronze Age site of Arediou Vouppes.
[5] 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] Steel directed an archaeology 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.