👋 Hi, I'm Joe.

I'm a computational archaeologist and research software engineer at the University of Copenhagen.

I use GitHub for software packages, research compendiums and various other projects. I try to work in the open as much as possible, so please be aware that many of my repositories are unpublished experiments, works-in-progress or abandonded ideas. Below you can find a curated list of my more 'mature' projects.

More info & contacts:

• 🏠 https://joeroe.io
• ✉️ joe@joeroe.io
• 🐘 archaeo.social/@joeroe

Software

R packages (stable)

• era – year-based time scales
• rpaleoclim – download paleoclimate data from PaleoClim

R packages (experimental)

• c14 – tidy radiocarbon data
• controller – tools for controlled vocabularies
• fieldwalkr – spatial sampling and survey simulation
• rintchron – interface to IntChron
• stratigraphr – archaeological stratigraphy and chronological sequences

Other

• ruby-radiocarbon – Ruby gem for fast radiocarbon calibration
• piwigo-3dhop – Piwigo plugin for viewing 3D models using 3DHOP
• risotto – minimalist hugo theme inspired by terminal ricing aesthetics. Originally developed for the CAA/SSLA website

Data

• xronos – an open repository for chronometric data in archaeology (incl. R package, web app)
• tavo-a27 – data from Uerpmann 1987, The Ancient Distribution of Ungulate Mammals in the Middle East (TAVO A27)
• swapdata – Southwest Asian palaeoarchaeology data

Research compendiums

Published

• joeroe/AzraqLEENFaunaMorphometry - data and code for Martin et al. 2025, Late Pleistocene-Holocene mammalian body size change in Jordan’s Azraq Basin: a case for climate driven species distribution shifts. Quaternary Science Reviews 350: 109147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109147
• joeroe/VarnaDietClustering - data and code for cluster analysis in Gaydarska et al. 2024. Dietary Variability in the Varna Chalcolithic Cemeteries. European Journal of Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.33
• zackbatist/openarchaeo-collaboration – data and code for Batist & Roe 2024, Open archaeology, open source? Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers, Internet Archaeology 67. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.67.13
• SWAsiaNeolithicFounderCrops – data and code for Arranz-Otaegui & Roe (2023), 'Revisiting the concept of the "Neolithic Founder Crops" in southwest Asia', Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00917-1
• MartinHinz/bayesian.demographic.reconstruction.2022 – data and code for Hinz et al., 'Bayesian inference of prehistoric population dynamics from multiple proxies: a case study from the North of the Swiss Alps' (preprint)

Conference papers

• dabawa23_enm, paper presented at "Digital Archaeology Bern – Ancient West Asia", Bern, 6–7 October 2023, 'Modelling the range of wild plants and crop progenitors in the Late Epipalaeolithic–Early Neolithic Levant'

Teaching materials

• gis_in_archaeology – course website for 'GIS in Archaeology' (437571) at the University of Bern
• smada – course website for 'Statistical Methods for Archaeological Data Analysis' (452240) at the University of Bern
• r4r_visualisation – slides, code examples, and exercises for the visualisation module of R for Archaeologists, a winter school held at the University of Pisa.

Lists

Of handy GitHub repositories:

• :atom_symbol: Radiocarbon data
• :pick: R packages for archaeology