Roxane Dubois
PhD Student, UCLouvain (CEMA-INCAL)
Minoan Archaeology – Ceramic studies – Protopalatial Crete
Minoan Archaeology – Ceramic studies – Protopalatial Crete
Email : roxane.dubois@uclouvain.be See my CV on Academia
Communities of practices and regional networks during the First Palaces Period in Crete (1900-1700 BCE). - written in French
Supervisor : Dr. Prof. Charlotte Langohr (F.R.S.-FNRS - UCLouvain, AegIS).
Since 2019 : PhD Candidate in Minoan Archaeology (Research Fellow FNRS 2019-2023) at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain – Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
2017 : Master of Arts (the highest distinction), Art History and Archaeology – specialized in Greco-Roman archaeology at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain – Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
2014 : Bachelor of Arts (distinction), Art History and Archaeology – specialized in Antiquity at the University of Namur (UNamur – Namur, Belgium)
Communities of practices and regional networks based on the study of pottery production, consumption and distribution
Pottery analysis, mainly Pre- and Proto-palatial periods
Study of small finds (lithic, bone, metal and terracotta artefacts)
Management and inventory of archaeological material
Contextual and functional analysis of architectural complexes
2015-present: Sissi Archaeological Project (Crete) – UCLouvain and EBSA (Prof. Jan Driessen). Co-responsible of the managements of the archaeological material and of the preliminary analysis of pottery; study and publication of the Protopalatial pottery from the settlement.
2024-present: Agora of Malia (Crete) – Efa (Dr Bastien Rueff). Study and publication of pottery (Pre to Post-palatial).
2017-2021 : Palace of Malia (Crete) – EfA and UGhent (Dr Maud Devolder). Assistant for the pottery study (under supervision of Dr Ilaria Caloi); study and publication of the clay, bone, stone and metal objects.
2017-2023 : Sector Pi at Malia (Crete) - EfA and Paris I-Sorbonne (Dr Maia Pomadère). Assistant for the study of Neopalatial pottery (under supervision of Dr Charlotte Langohr; study of the protopalatial pottery and preparation of the publication (with Dr Giorgos Doudalis).
Dubois R., 2025 . People beyond pots. Social organisation in MM IIB Crete: a ceramic approach to diacritical consumption, in: Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Cretan Studies (Agios Nikolaos, 5-9 October 2022).
Dubois R., 2024. The Protopalatial settlement at Sissi: A first attempt to define the MM II pottery, in Caloi I. & G. Doudalis, Protopalatial pottery: relative chronology and regional differences in Middle Bronze Age, Aegis 27, Louvain-le-Neuve.
Claeys T., L. Dautais, R. Dubois, K. Regnier, E. Tsafou, D. Vendramin, D. Wolf (eds.) 2024. ScapeCon 2022. Towards an Archaeology of Fragmentation in Aegean Bronze Age, Aegis 29, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Tsafou E. & R. Dubois, 2024. From Fragmented Evidence to the Identification of Cooking Practices. A Diachronic Approach to Minoan Cooking Vessels and Spaces, in Claeys T., L. Dautais, R. Dubois, K. Regnier, E. Tsafou, D. Vendramin, D. Wolf (eds.) 2024. ScapeCon 2022. Towards an Archaeology of Fragmentation in Aegean Bronze Age, Aegis 29, Louvain-la-Neuve, p. 161-177.
Caloi I. & R. Dubois, 2023. On some late Prepalatial pricket lamps in White-on-Dark Ware from beneath the North Wing of the Malia Palace, Bulletin de correspondance héllénique 145.2 (2021), p. 577-597.