Valentine Roux (born 1956) is a French archaeologist specialising in ceramic production in the Levant between the 5th and 2nd millennium BCE with the aim of identifying the "evolutionary trajectories of ceramic traditions.
[2] Roux's research "combines ethnoarchaeology in India and archaeology in the Near East."
She has devoted much research to developing "reference frameworks, whether about the diagnostic attributes of manufacturing techniques, their properties, the quantification of their constitutive components, the cognitive and motor skills involved, or, more recently, about the conditions favorable to their diffusion."
[3] Roux has co-edited the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory since 2019.
[4] 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".