Louise Steel

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Mae Louise Steel yn archaeolegydd sydd â diddordeb yn y byd materol a rhyng-gysylltiadau yn ardal Ddwyreiniol Môr y Canoldir yn ystod yr Oes Efydd. Mae hi’n gweithio yng Nghyprus yn bennaf ac mae hefyd wedi cloddio yn Gaza. Mae ei hymchwil mwy diweddar yn canolbwyntio ar y Materoldebau Newydd, gan archwilio perthynas pobl â mater.

Mae Louise yn gweithio yng nghanolfan UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES yn PCYDDS, gan archwilio sut y gellid defnyddio gwybodaeth ac arbenigedd o’r tu allan i’r byd academaidd i helpu i ymateb i’r myrdd o broblemau y mae pobl yn eu hwynebu yn yr 21ain ganrif a cheisio nodi atebion lleol i faterion byd-eang.

Pynciau Arbenigol

Archaeoleg (Cyprus yr Oes Efydd, Y Môr Aegeaidd a'r Dwyrain Agos)
Theori Archaeolegol
Materoliaeth Newydd
Treftadaeth Ddiwylliannol a Newid Hinsawdd

Profiad Proffesiynol a/neu Ymchwil

Mae gan Louise fwy na 30 mlynedd o brofiad yn ymchwilio a darlithio ar archaeoleg ardal Ddwyreiniol Môr y Canoldir. Mae hi wedi cyfarwyddo gwaith maes yn al Moghraqa (Gaza) ac Aredhiou (Cyprus) ac wedi gweithio fel arbenigwr crochenwaith yn Kalavasos (Cyprus) ac ar grochenwaith o Gyprus o Deir el Balah a Tell Batash. Ei phrif ddiddordebau yw perthynas pobl â'r byd materol a sut roedd hyn wedi'i blethu yn eu profiadau bob dydd, cysylltiadau rhyngddiwylliannol yn ardal Ddwyreiniol Môr y Canoldir a chynrychioliadau hynafol.

Mae Louise yn Gyfarwyddwr Ymchwil yng nghanolfan UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES UK yn PCYDDS, sy'n hyrwyddo agweddau trawsddisgyblaethol at Wyddor Cynaliadwyedd. Mae ei hymchwil diweddar yn archwilio'r rhyngwyneb rhwng newid hinsawdd a threftadaeth ddiwylliannol. Fel Prif Ymchwilydd Coastal TALES (sy’n gweithio gyda chydweithwyr yn TCD ac ASU) mae hi'n ymchwilio i'r rôl y gallai treftadaeth anghyffyrddadwy, gwybodaeth ac arferion traddodiadol eu chwarae wrth helpu poblogaethau arfordirol y gogledd i addasu i'r hinsawdd sy'n newid.

Cymwysterau

BA (Anrh) Prifysgol Lerpwl
PhD Prifysgol Llundain

Ieithoedd a Siaradwyd

Saesneg, Ffrangeg, Groeg

Aelodaeth Broffesiynol neu Rôl

Coleg Adolygu Cymheiriaid Rhyngwladol AHRC

Bwrdd Golygyddol Near Eastern Archaeology

Golygydd y Gyfres, Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru

Addysgu Academaidd

Archaeoleg

Cydnabyddiaeth neu Wobrau Allanol

Uwch Gymrawd yr AAU

Dolen i Broffil Orcid

Proffil Ymchwil ORCID

Cyhoeddiadau Proffesiynol

2025
Creative Expression: Prehistoric Figurines from Cyprus. Pp. 109-130 in D. Candelora and S. Steadman (eds) A Cultural History of Gender in Early Civilisations. London: Bloomsbury.
Identifying a Late Cypriot Rural House: Re-Examining Building 1 at Aredhiou Vouppes. Pp. 157-69 in J. Clarke and D. Baird (eds) Prehistoric Anatolia and Cyprus. Studies in Honour of Ian A. Todd. SIMA 159. Jonsered: P. Åströms Förlag.
2024
Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay, L. Steel and L. Attala (eds). Cardiff: University of Wales Press
2023
Plants Matter: Exploring the Becomings of Plants and Humans, L. Attala and L. Steel (eds). Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
BRIDGES Coalition Project Mapping of Humanities-led Sustainability Science, L.Attala, L. Steel, L .Oosterbeck, S. Hartman and D. Tsimprikidou (eds), UNESO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, UWTSD. https://bridges.earth/2023/08/bridges-coalition-project-mapping/
Exploring the Aesthetic of Red Polished Figurative Art: The Beautifully Made...Made Beautiful. Pp. 193-202 in Y. Voskos, E. Mantzorani, D. Kloukinas (eds) Prehistoric Lifeways in Cyprus from the Early Holocene to the Middle Bronze Age, SIMA 155.
Connecting Communities: Agency and Social Interactions in Pre- and Protohistoric Cyprus. Pp. 281-90 in T. Bürge and L. Recht (eds) Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Pre- and Protohistoric Cyprus. London: Routledge.
Exploring the Biography of Gaming Stones at Aredhiou, Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age. Near Eastern Archaeology 86(3): 186-95.
Enkomi and Egypt: Exploring the Third Space in Cyprus. In C. Langer and U. Matić (eds) Postcolonial Theory in Egyptology: Applications and Potentials. Special Issue: Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress.
Mycenaean Pottery from the Cypriot Hinterland: Luxuries, Commodities or Oddities? In A.-L. d’Agata and P. Pavúk (eds) The Lady of Pottery: Ceramic Studies Presented to Penelope A. Mountjoy in Acknowledgement of Her Outstanding Scholarship. SMEA NS, Supplement 3, 179-205.2019 Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body, L. Attala and L. Steel (eds). Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
2021
Agencement, Matter Flows and Itinerary of Object in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean: A New Materialities Approach to Globalization. Pp. 81-102 in S. Autiero and M. Cobb (eds) Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003096269-4.
Beyond the Thingification of Worlds. New Materialisms for the Archaeologist (with E. Govier). Journal of Material Culture 26(3): 298-317. DOI:10.1177/13591835211025559
Hospitality or Heterotopia: What Happened in Room 103 at Arediou? Pp. 105-18 in Z. Chovanec and W. Crist (eds) All Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny. ASOR publications, Boston.
Inscribing Bodies in Bronze Age Cyprus. Pp. 29-44 in N. Laneri (ed.) The Sacred Body: Materializing the Divine through Human Remains in Antiquity. Material Religion in Antiquity, Oxford: Oxbow Books.
2020
Feats of Clay: Considering the Materiality of Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Sustainability 12. Special Issue: Exploring Materiality in the Bronze Age. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3390/su12176942
“Little Women”: Gender, Performance, and Gesture in Mycenaean Female Figurines. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101161
Transforming Landscapes: Exploring the Creation of a Sacred Landscape in Northeast Cyprus at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age. Pp. 121-31 in G.F. Chiai and R. Hauessler (eds) Sacred Landscapes: Creation, Manipulation, Transformation. Oxford: Oxbow.
2019
Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body. L. Steel and L. Attala (eds), Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
2018
Another Look at Red Lustrous Arm-Vessels. Pp. 197-210 in L. Crewe, L. Hulin and J.M. Webb (eds) Structures of Inequality. Studies in Honour of Alison K. South. SIMA Pocketbook 187. Jonsered: P. Åströms Förlag.
Shifting Relations in Bronze Age Gaza: An Investigation into Egyptianizing Practices and Cultural Hybridity in the Southern Levant During the Second Millennium BC. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 20: 15-30.
Watery Entanglements in the Cypriot Hinterland During the Bronze Age. Land. Special Issue 7: “Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée”, edited G. Papantoniou and Th. Vionis, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/landscape_archaeology
2017
Exploring the Materiality of Food“Stuffs”: Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments, L. Steel and K. Zinn (eds). New York & London: Routledge.
2016
Exploring Aredhiou: New Light on the Rural Communities of the Cypriot Hinterland During the Late Bronze Age, American Journal of Archaeology 120(4): 511-36.
The Social and Economic Roles of the Women of Alashiya. Pp. 386-98 in S. Budin and J. McIntosh Turfa (eds) Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World. New York: Routledge.
Kitchenalia in Bronze Age Cyprus. In E.J. Abbots (ed.) Special edition on “The Stuff of Food and Bodies”, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 16(3): 79-90.
2013
The Social World of Early-Middle Bronze Age Cyprus: Rethinking the Vounous Bowl. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 25/1: 51-73
2012
Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean. New York & London: Routledge.
2010
Late Cypriot Ceramic Production: Heterarchy or Hierarchy? Pp. 106-16 in L. Maguire and D. Bolger (eds), The Development of Pre-State Communities in the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Edgar Peltenburg. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
2009
Exploring Regional Settlement on Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age: The Rural Hinterland. Pp. 135-45 in I. Hein (ed.), The Formation of Cyprus in the 2nd Millennium BC. Studies in Regionalism During the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
2008
Creation and Expression of Identity in Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age. Pp. 154-175 in C. Gallou, M. Georgiadis, G.M. Muskett (eds), DIOSCURI. Studies presented to W.G. Cavanagh and C.B. Mee on the Anniversary of their 30-Year Joint Contribution to Aegean Archaeology. Oxford: BAR IS 1889.
Survey at Arediou Vouppes (Lithosouros): A Late Bronze Age Agricultural Settlement on Cyprus. A Preliminary Analysis of the Material Culture Assemblages. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 351: 9-37. (with C. McCartney)
Excavations at Arediou-Vouppes (Lithosouros), Cyprus. An Interim Report on Excavations 2005-2006. Reports of the Department of Antiquities Cyprus, 2008: 227-49. (with S. Thomas)
Imported Mycenaean, Minoan and Cypriot Pottery and Local Imitations. Pp. 122-31 in T. Dothan, Deir el-Balah: Uncovering an Egyptian Outpost in Canaan from the Time of the Exodus. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum.
2007
Red Lustrous Wheelmade Ware from Kalavasos. Pp. 179-90 in I. Hein (ed.), The Lustrous Wares of Late Bronze Age Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. (with A. South)
2006
Women in Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting. In E. Rystedt and B. Wells (eds), Pictorial Pursuits. Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery. Stockholm: Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae 3, LIII, 47-55.
Cypriot and Mycenaean Pottery. Chapter 3, pp.151-72, in N. Panitz-Cohen and A. Mazar, Timnah Tel Batash III. The Finds from the Second Millennium BCE. QEDEM 45. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Old City Press.
2005
Survey at Arediou-Vouppes 2005. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2005: 231-44. (with S. Janes)
2004
Cyprus Before History. From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age. London: Duckworth Publishing.
Egyptian ‘Funerary Cones’ from el-Moghraqa, Gaza. The Antiquaries Journal 84: 319-33. (with W.P. Manley, J. Clarke, M. Sadeq)
A Goodly Feast…A Cup of Mellow Wine: Feasting in Bronze Age Cyprus. Pp. 161-80 in J. Wright (ed.), in The Mycenaean Feast. Hesperia 73/2.
A Reappraisal of the Distribution, Context and Function of Mycenaean Pottery in Cyprus. Pp. 69-85 in J. Balensi, J.-Y. Monchambert, S. Müller-Celka (eds), La Céramique Mycénienne entre l’Egée et le Levant. Table Rond à la Mémoire de Vronwy Hankey. Travaux de la Masion de l’Orient, Lyon.
Gaza Research Project. Report of 1999 and 2000 Seasons at Moghraqa. Levant 36: 37-88. (with J. Clarke, M. Sadeq, B. Manley).
Gaza Research Project: 1998 Survey of the Old City of Gaza. Levant 36: 31-6. (J. Clarke, M. Sadeq)

Gwybodaeth Ychwanegol

Mae Louise wedi recordio podlediadau am archaeoleg Gaza ar gyfer History Hits a The Ancients and Seven Ages Research ac yn ddiweddar siaradodd am y dreftadaeth archaeolegol sy'n diflannu yn Gaza yng Nghynhadledd WAAS@65: Solutions to Global Turbulence. Mae hi hefyd wedi recordio podlediadau ar Cyprus yr Oes Efydd ac ar faterion daearol ar gyfer cyfres Earth and World, Canolfan Gelf Camden.

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