Research
My doctoral thesis focused on the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus, c.1600-300 BC, including their chronological and geographical distribution and issues of epigraphy, dialectology and language contact. I am now working on the history of the Greek language in the ancient eastern Mediterranean more broadly. My other research interests include the study of ancient scripts, onomastics, language contact and linguistic diversity, dialectology, island studies and the social context of script use.
Publications
Key publications:
Steele, P.M. (forthcoming). A Linguistic History of Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600-300 BC. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Steele, P.M. (ed.) (2012 – in press). Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Steele, P.M. (2011). Eteocypriot: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence, in Georgiou, A. (ed.), Cyprus: an island culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 122-32.
Steele, P.M. (2011). 'Gaps' in Literacy: Social responses to economic crisis in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 2011, 53-63.
Publications (from Symplectic)
Book chapters
2024
Doi: 10.4000/12156
Doi: 10.1017/9781009490122.008
2023
Doi: 10.17863/CAM.100125
2021 (Published online)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.71377
2019
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.52375
2018 (No publication date)
2017 (Published online)
2017 (Accepted for publication)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.12130
2017
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11227
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.85565
2016
2012
2011
2010
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139208482.002
Books
2023
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.104426
2022
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.89217
2021
2019
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.52376
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/9781316729977
2017
2013
Journal articles
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/su122410671
2016 (Published online)
2016 (Accepted for publication)
2014 (Accepted for publication)
2014
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2014-0007
2013
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X13001194
2010
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0075426910001011
