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 I try to work in the open as much as possible, so please be aware that many of my repositories are unpublished experiments, works-in-progress or abandonded ideas.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

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

• 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

• 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 theCAA/SSLA website

• 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

• 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)

• 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'

• 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 ofR for Archaeologists, a winter school held at the University of Pisa.

Of handy GitHub repositories:

• ⚛️ Radiocarbon data
• ⛏️ R packages for archaeology

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1. eraeraPublic

   R package for year-based time scales

   R 15

2. c14c14Public

   R package for tidy radiocarbon data

   R 7

3. stratigraphrstratigraphrPublic

   R package for archaeological stratigraphy and chronological sequences

   R 24 1

4. fieldwalkrfieldwalkrPublic

   R package for spatial sampling and survey simulation

   R 7

5. rintchronrintchronPublic

   R Interface to IntChron

   R 4 1

6. rpaleoclimrpaleoclimPublic

   R interface for PaleoClim paleoclimate data

   R 15 1