Profile

Doralice Klainscek is an archaeologist and has been working as a project assistant (Prae-Doc) in the FWF project ANAPAN (PI Prof. Dr. M. Luciani) since April 2024. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Vienna. Her current research focuses on ceramic analysis, including morphotypology, technology, and petrography. Her dissertation project, "Tracing Socio-Economic Dynamics through Pottery Manufacture and Distribution: a Diachronic and Interregional Perspective from NW Arabia," focuses on the socio-economic dynamics associated with the production, use, and distribution of ceramics. The focus is on vessels from the Bronze and Iron Age oasis of Qurayyah, NW Arabia. These vessels are being studied at the typological, technological, and archaeometric levels using a chain-opératoire approach in the supra-regional context of Arabia and the Levant.

Key Research Topics

• West Asian and Prehistoric Archaeology
• Archaeometry and Geoarchaeology
• Petrography
• Ceramic Studies, Manufacturing Techniques, and Chain Operation

Publications

Luciani M. – Fragnoli P. – Sterba J.H. – Klainscek D. – Gilstrap W.D. – Green J.A. – Bourke S. – Donnelly P. (in prep.) Creating a Brand. Genesis, Transformation and Diffusion of Qurayyah Painted Ware.

Luciani M. – Klainscek D. (in prep.) A New Look at the Pottery from Qurayyah from the National Museum, Riyadh.

Academic Career

Since April 2024: PhD candidate as project collaborator in the FWF project I6265 "ANAPAN: A New Approach to Pottery of Arabia and its Neighbors" (PI Prof. Dr. Marta Luciani)

Since 2019: Collaborator, Joint Qurayyah Archaeological Project (University of Vienna and Saudi Heritage Commission)

September – December 2020: Research Assistant, P-Networks Project (Supervisors: Prof. Luciani, University of Vienna; Dr. Fragnoli, ÖAI/OAW)

2019 – 2023: Collaborator in research projects for find management and graphic documentation of material from Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Iraq.

2019 – 2023: Collaborator in excavation projects in the Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy.

Academic Education

2020–2024: Master's degree in Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna (“Two Pottery Assemblages from Area R, Qurayyah: a Preliminary Characterization of the Final Late Bronze Age to Initial Iron Age Ceramics”; Supervision: Prof. Luciani)

2017–2020: Bachelor's degree in Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna (“Pottery production and exchange networks in Ancient Arabia: a preliminary work on SQPW from Qurayyah-Area A”; Supervision: Prof. Luciani, Prof. Ramsl)

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