Joe Roe

— Wikipedian ♂ —
Born	Batley, United Kingdom
Current location	Bern, Switzerland
Languages	English (en-N) Danish (da-2)
Education and employment
Occupation	Archaeologist
Employer	University of Bern
Education	UCL Institute of Archaeology Durham University
Contact info
Website	joeroe.io
Email	Email me
GitHub	joeroe
Mastodon	archaeo.social/@joeroe
Account statistics
First edit	2005-03-26
Administrator	2017-11-30
Edit count	≈41,500
Permissions	sysop

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 two alternate accounts: Joe Roe (mobile) (talk · contribs) for when I'm travelling and Joe Robot (talk · contribs) for semi-automated edits.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Archaeology.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue)

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Map Workshop (watch)

This user has been a new pages reviewer for 8 years, 3 weeks and 5 days. (verify)

Selected contributions

Featured

Featured content and good articles I've worked on:

• Jørgen Læssøe
• Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
  • ... that Lamia Al-Gailani Werr helped rebuild the Iraq Museum after it was looted in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq?
• Man of the Hole
  • 2022-08-24: The Man of the Hole, the last surviving member of a people eradicated in the genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil, is found dead.
• 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?
  • 2017-05-16 (births)

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
148. Metal Age (Southeast Asia)
149. Seroglazovka culture

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:

• Karlsburg, Winnemark
• Christmas Eve Procession
• College entrance exam
• Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden
• List of hundreds of Sweden
• Edelsbrunner Automobile München
• Residence in English family law
• Timeline of the geologic history of the United States
• Flora of Peru
• Khorjin
• Bailer (hydrogeology)
• Birkarlarna
• Homology (anthropology)
• Lorenzo Kihlman
• Alfred Götze
• Altheim culture
• Gåseborg
• Cherré (archaeological site)
• Bejsebakke
• Las Bóvedas (thermae)
• Nehbandan Citadel
• Petrovka (archaeological site)
• Seroglazovka culture
• Nikolaos Platon
• Hellmuth Straka

New pages reviewed: 4392 (as of 2024-11-21)

Photographs

Uploaded to Commons.

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  Azraq Wetland Reserve, Jordan
• 
  Wadi Feynan, Jordan
• 
  Edge of Black Desert near Azraq, eastern Jordan
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  Old houses in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan
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  Basalt pavement in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan
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  View from Kef el-Kelb in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan
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  Camels in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan
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  Wadi Rajil near Jawa, eastern Jordan
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  Jawa, eastern Jordan
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  Remains of the city walls of Jawa, eastern Jordan
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  Remains of the gate of Jawa, eastern Jordan
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  Qasr Burqu, eastern Jordan
• 
  Qasr Burqu, eastern Jordan
• 
  Qasr Burqu, eastern Jordan
• 
  Qasr Burqu, eastern Jordan
• 
  Qasr Burqu, eastern Jordan
• 
  Tents at Euromaidan (2014)
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  Tents and stage at Euromaidan
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  Barricade at Euromaidan
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  Crimea tent at Euromaidan
• 
  Donetsk tent at Euromaidan
• 
  Lenin statue in Novoarkhanhelsk (2009)
• 
  Empty plinth after the 2014 revolution
• 
  Kirovohrad, Ukraine
• 
  Nebelivka, Ukraine
• 
  Panorama of Vršac, Serbia

Maps and illustrations

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

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  Location of the Harrat al-Sham
• 
  Safaitic letters
• 
  Plan of En Esur
• 
  English Wikipedia biographies by gender
• 
  Percentage of English Wikipedia biographies of women
• 
  Federal court districts and divisions in Iowa
• 
  Lactose tolerance in the Old World
• 
  Genetic lactase persistence in the Old World
• 
  Topographic map of the Middle East
• 
  Tampon taxes in the US
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  Topographic map of the Southern Levant
• 
  Deserts of North America
• 
  Recusant Catholics in England, 1715–20
• 
  Electoral democracies in the Middle East and North Africa
• 
  Street map of Florence
• 
  The Indo-European homeland according to the steppe hypothesis
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  The Southern Levant
• 
  Countries of the Southern Levant
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  Centres of origin and spread of agriculture
• 
  Khoisan languages
• 
  Indigenous territories in Rondônia
• 
  The Igarapé Omerê Indigenous Territory, Rondônia
• 
  The Vinča culture

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
• Wikipedia:Most people aren't polymaths

On Wikipedia and its culture:

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

On administration:

• Wikipedia:Al Capone effect

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

Barnstars

(Barnstars etc. copied from my talk page)

• The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award For over 360 article reviews during 2023. Well done! Keep up the good work and thank you! Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
• The Barnstar of Diplomacy Thank you for such a wonderful contribution. Kioumarsi (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
• What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar hank you for coming up with the idea for Administrative action review and seeing it through the RfC process. Not only is it a solution to a concrete gap in our review processes, it promises cultural change by challenging the equation of sysop and administrator. I'm looking forward to its impacts, and I'm excited to working together to ensure it succeeds. — Wug·a·po·des​ 19:52, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
• The Mountain Of Crap Barnstar Anyone who climbs half a megabyte of AfD deserves to have something waiting for them at the top. jp×g 03:43, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
• The Admin's Barnstar For taking on the challenge of closing the biggest and arguably most contentious AfD in Wikipedia history. clpo13_(talk) 18:47, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
• The Patience is a Virtue Award Thank you for having patience with my endless questions :) Tyrone Madera (talk) 20:01, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
• A cup of tea for you! For making Winifred M. Crompton's page so fast! You deserve a nice cuppa! Lajmmoore (talk) 21:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
• The Special Barnstar. A Gorilla told me you wrote most of an open letter. Thank you. GRuban (talk) 18:52, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
• The Photographer's Barnstar. You've helped out a ton with your photos to WP! thanks! Redditaddict69 ^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:10, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
• Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar for completing over 100 reviews during the 2018 June Backlog Drive, please accept this Special Edition Barnstar. Thank you for helping out at New Page Patrol and keep up the good work. Cheers! — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 01:58, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
• Thanks for your kind words and the advice that you provided to me related to the doubts that I wanted to clarify about the redirects and page moves. You have made me cool and happy with your kindful efforts. Thanks a lot and happy editing. Abishe (talk) 13:05, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
• —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:42, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
• Cheers! Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 20:39, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
• 
  Precious #1785 for archeological culture – Thank you for quality articles around archeology and its people, such as Margaret Ursula Jones and British Institute in Amman, for Indigenous territory (Brazil), for {{Infobox archaeological culture}} and related images, maps and diagrams, for service from 2006, and now also offering admin service, - Joe, you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:49, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
• The New Page Patroller's Barnstar. For being one of the top 100 reviewers of the past year. Thank you for your service! — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 22:01, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
• The Special Barnstar. thank u for the information given to me. please see the question again.i will detail it more.please refer it more. Thank you anyway. jordan (talk) 14:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
• Thanks for your help in the Teahouse. Regards from the Netherlands – Amin (Talk)
• Three barn caves for the three initiatiors and creative minds behind Template:Navbox prehistoric caves‎; User:Joe Roe, User:Doug Weller, and User:Wikirictor! Not archaeological though, but wow... Tisquesusa (talk) 21:35, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
• The Editor's Barnstar. For brilliant editing --Saukkomies ^talk 16:45, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Administrator statistics

Admin actions for Joe Roe Type of action Percentage Deletion/Undeletion 2649    81.33% Block/Reblock 232    7.12% Protection/Unprotection 57    1.75% RevDel 40    1.23% User rights 279    8.57%