Valentine Roux

Valentine Roux (born 1956) is a French archaeologist specialising in ceramic production in the Levant between the 5th and 2nd millennium BCE.

Education and career

Roux was born in Belleville-sur-Saône in 1956. She studied prehistory at the University of Paris and obtained her doctorate in 1983. Her thesis was on the ethnoarchaeology of grinding material in Neolithic Mauritania. She has been affiliated with the CNRS since 1986, and was appointed a research director in 2003.[1] She was awarded a CNRS Silver Medal in 2015.[2]

Roux has co-edited the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory since 2019.[3] Her book Ceramics and Society: A Technological Approach to Archaeological Assemblages (2019) "encourages archaeologists to approach processing and recording pottery assemblages differently, moving away from a focus on typology towards understanding pottery from a technological perspective".[4]

References
  1. "Dr. Valentine Roux". AcademiaNet. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  2. "Valentine Roux". CNRS.
  3. "New Editors 2019". Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Springer. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  4. Burke, Clare (2020). "Valentine Roux, in collaboration with Courty M.-A. Ceramics and Society: A Technological Approach to Archaeological Assemblages. (Springer: Switzerland, 2019, 329pp, 46 b/w illustrations, 102 in colour, hbk, ISBN 978-3-030-03972-1)". European Journal of Archaeology. 23 (3): 476–479. doi:10.1017/eaa.2020.28.
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