User:Joe Roe

Hi, I'm Joe. I mainly work on articles about archaeology and biographies of scientists. I'm also an administrator on the English Wikipedia and was a member of its Arbitration Committee in 2019–2020. In my behind-the-scenes work I try to focus on preserving good content and encouraging new editors, which has led me to new page patrol, articles for deletion, and dispute resolution.

Off Wikipedia, I'm a computational archaeologist, studing the economy and human ecology of the first farming societies in prehistoric Southwest Asia. My homepage has more information about my off-wiki work.

I have one alternative account, Joe Roe (mobile).

Featured
Featured content and good articles I've worked on:


 * Jørgen Læssøe
 * Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
 * Man of the Hole
 * Margaret Ursula Jones
 * Margaret Ursula Jones
 * Margaret Ursula Jones

New articles
Articles I created or expanded from a stub. Please note that the current version might be significantly or completely different from the original version I wrote.


 * 1) Titus (gorilla)
 * 2) Altan Urag
 * 3) Material culture
 * 4) Sintashta culture
 * 5) First Temperate Neolithic
 * 6) Tisza culture
 * 7) Teodor Burada
 * 8) Société d'Anthropologie de Paris
 * 9) Srečko Brodar
 * 10) Jorge R. Acosta
 * 11) Akuntsu  ... that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
 * 12) Indigenous territory (Brazil)  ... that there are 672 Indigenous Territories in Brazil, covering about 13% of the country's land area?
 * 13) Mongol zurag
 * 14) Ürjingiin Yadamsüren
 * 15) Vikentiy Khvoyka (from stub)
 * 16) Hyloscirtus princecharlesi
 * 17) The World Until Yesterday
 * 18) Industry (archaeology)
 * 19) Crystal Bennett
 * 20) British Institute in Amman  ... that the British Institute in Amman was founded by archaeologist Crystal Bennett in 1975 to provide a base for British archaeological expeditions to Jordan?
 * 21) Lucy Allen Smart
 * 22) Margaret Ursula Jones  ... that Margaret Ursula Jones directed work at Mucking, the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Britain, for thirteen years, while living on site year round in a small caravan?
 * 23) Arroyo Hondo Pueblo
 * 24) Nebelivka
 * 25) Novoarkhanhelsk
 * 26) Vera Markovna Karelina
 * 27) Paolo Biagi
 * 28) Zanna Roberts Rassi
 * 29) Stephanie Harvey
 * 30) Glossary of archaeology
 * 31) Margarida Davina Andreatta
 * 32) Jeanne Marie Thérèse Vandier d'Abbadie
 * 33) Elise Jenny Baumgartel
 * 34) Flotation (archaeology)
 * 35) Wadi Faynan
 * 36) Khirbat Faynan
 * 37) Institute of Archaeology (Oxford)
 * 38) Chris Gosden
 * 39) Peter Woodman
 * 40) Qasr Burqu'
 * 41) Department of Antiquities
 * 42) Department of Antiquities (Jordan)
 * 43) Department of Antiquities (Cyprus)
 * 44) Tania Ghirshman
 * 45) List of indigenous territories (Brazil)
 * 46) Tatiana Warsher
 * 47) Tel Erani
 * 48) Digital archaeology
 * 49) Pahargarh caves
 * 50) Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland
 * 51) List of hillforts on the Isle of Man
 * 52) Elen Feuerriegel
 * 53) Frank Hole
 * 54) Robin Dennell
 * 55) Riwat Site 55
 * 56) Kristian Kristiansen (archaeologist)
 * 57) Lesley J. Gordon
 * 58) Donald Brian Doe
 * 59) Bill Epstein
 * 60) T. Scarlett Epstein
 * 61) Bagshaw Museum
 * 62) Untermassfeld fossil site
 * 63) Howley Hall
 * 64) Michael Mortimer Wheeler
 * 65) Swanpool, Lincoln
 * 66) Sanjay Ghemawat
 * 67) Derek R. Peterson
 * 68) John Catt
 * 69) Irina Rusanova
 * 70) Yusra
 * 71) Ufuk Esin
 * 72) Marcel Martel (musician)
 * 73) Birgitta Wallace
 * 74) E. C. L. During Caspers
 * 75) Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead
 * 76) Sally McBrearty
 * 77) Andrew Hill (anthropologist)
 * 78) Gizzle  ... that American rapper Gizzle worked as a ghostwriter for other hip hop artists before releasing her debut mixtape in 2017?
 * 79) Arabian sand gazelle
 * 80) Women in archaeology
 * 81) Hans Helbæk
 * 82) Caitlin E. Buck
 * 83) Angela von den Driesch
 * 84) Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
 * 85) Dana Lepofsky  ... that according to research led by Dana Lepofsky, some clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old?
 * 86) Andrew Woods (archaeologist)
 * 87) Roger Jacobi
 * 88) Rossiyskaya arkheologiya
 * 89) Joan J. Taylor
 * 90) Lodian culture
 * 91) Wadi Raba culture
 * 92) Anna Belfer-Cohen
 * 93) La Pagoda
 * 94) Robert H. Dyson
 * 95) Winifred M. Crompton
 * 96) Gary Lock
 * 97) Neolithic demographic transition
 * 98) Marion Stirling Pugh
 * 99) Vassilios Tzaferis
 * 100) Gilbert Kaenel
 * 101) Aino Kann Rasmussen
 * 102) Wadi Hammeh 27
 * 103) Hafiz Patel
 * 104) Baaz Rockshelter
 * 105) Olena Vasylivna Tsvek
 * 106) Michael Balter
 * 107) Jocelyn Orchard
 * 108) Dhuweila
 * 109) El Wad
 * 110) Mátyás Vremir
 * 111) Mads Kähler Holst
 * 112) R package
 * 113) Peter Dalgaard
 * 114) Roger Bivand
 * 115) Keith Kintigh
 * 116) Karen Marie Christensen
 * 117) Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
 * 118) Valentine Roux
 * 119) Archaeometry (journal)
 * 120) Journal of Field Archaeology
 * 121) Boncuklu Tarla
 * 122) Tony Waldron
 * 123) Hasan Awad
 * 124) Nebekian culture
 * 125) 'Ayn Qasiyya
 * 126) KPS-75
 * 127) Bullshit job
 * 128) Dorian Fuller
 * 129) Edward B. Banning
 * 130) Trevor Watkins
 * 131) Kfar HaHoresh (archaeological site)
 * 132) Netiv HaGdud (archaeological site)
 * 133) Wadi Shuʿeib (archaeological site)
 * 134) Hugh O'Neill Hencken
 * 135) Boncuklu Höyük
 * 136) Alexis Mallon  ... that in 1929, the world press proclaimed Teleilat el Ghassul to be the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, but Father Alexis Mallon, the site's excavator, disagreed?
 * 137) Shoddy
 * 138) René Neuville
 * 139) Otto E. Ravn
 * 140) The Apportionment of Human Diversity
 * 141) List of archaeology journals
 * 142) Anthony Harding (archaeologist)
 * 143) Ancient Apocalypse
 * 144) Basta, Jordan
 * 145) American Association of Teachers of Arabic
 * 146) Archaeology by country
 * 147) Hot model

Existing articles
Other articles that I have significantly rewrote or collaborated on with other editors:


 * Archaeological culture
 * Christopher Tilley
 * Dan Sperber
 * Hadza people
 * Jared Diamond
 * Lactose intolerance
 * Paul Bohannan
 * Rhye's and Fall of Civilization
 * Markazi Masjid
 * Sintashta
 * Vinča-Belo Brdo
 * Vinča culture
 * Cucuteni-Trypillia culture
 * Hard and soft science
 * Council for British Research in the Levant
 * Barbara Robb ... that Barbara Robb, a campaigner for the well-being of older people, was described by a Cabinet Minister as a "terrible danger" to the British government in 1969?
 * Proto-Indo-European homeland
 * Southern Levant
 * Badia (region)
 * Archaeological record
 * Cultural evolution
 * Inspector Gadget (blogger)''
 * Ralph de Warenne
 * Cheste hoard
 * Hominid dispersals in Europe
 * Riwat
 * Magicians of the Gods
 * Archaeology of the Philippines
 * Daryll Forde
 * Elsie Jury
 * David Graeber
 * Safaitic
 * Carleton S. Coon
 * Julia Silge
 * Amini Aza Mturi
 * Jahres-Bericht über die Leistungen der chemischen Technologie
 * Göbekli Tepe
 * Shemuel Yeivin
 * Lajia
 * Founder crops
 * List of archaeologists
 * Tell el-Hammam

Unreferenced articles salvaged: style=display:inline;|

New pages reviewed: 3734

Photographs
Uploaded to Commons.

Maps and illustrations
Uploaded to Commons. Many of these were requests from the map workshop.

Templates

 * Infobox archaeological culture
 * Early human migrations
 * Hillforts
 * Cite Atlas of Hillforts
 * Neolithic Europe
 * Notable apes
 * Prehistoric caves
 * R (programming language)
 * Epipalaeolithic Southwest Asia
 * Neolithic Southwest Asia
 * Prehistoric Southwest Asia timeline

Essays
On writing encyclopaedia articles:


 * User:Joe Roe/Archaeology conventions
 * Most people aren't polymaths

On Wikipedia and its culture:


 * User:Joe Roe/Seven tips for new page patrolling
 * Notability Police
 * Product placement
 * Broken by design
 * User:Joe Roe/The Wall (WIP)

On administration:


 * Al Capone effect

If you're interested, here's a list of other essays I like.