Talks

2025

• Martin, L., Shdeifat, A., Richter, T., Jones, M., Roe, J., Thaher, A., Alawamleh, A., Ibrahim, M., & Ghlelat, A. 2025. Wadi al-Dahek: Report on the first season of archaeological survey and sedimentological assessment in Jordan’s ‘White Desert’ in the eastern Badia . Presented at the 16th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ).
• Richter, T. & Roe, J. 2025. Using Ancient Environmental Genomics to Improve Our Understanding of Early Agro-Ecosystems in southwest Asia (and beyond) . Presented at the 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.
• Roe, J. 2025. The chronoverse – towards a common language for chronological modelling in R . Presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) annual conference, Athens, 5–9 May 2025.
• Geeraerts, G., Roe, J., & Levy, E. 2025. A command-line interface for chronological network modelling in R . Presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) annual conference, Athens, 5–9 May 2025.
• Hinz, M. & Roe, J. 2025. Open-Source Bayesian Chronological Modeling: The Role of a Domain-Specific Language . Presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) annual conference, Athens, 5–9 May 2025.
• Heitz, C., Ismail-Meyer, K., Aellen, C., & Roe, J. 2025. Leben am See in Zeiten des Klimawandels – Klimaarchäologische Perspektiven auf bronzezeitliche «Pfahlbauten» im zirkum-alpinen Raum . Presented at the Berner Zirkel für Ur- und Frühgeschichte.

2024

• Roe, J. & Hinz, M. 2024. XRONOS as a Resource for Archaeological Chronology in West Asia . Presented at the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) Conference, Virtual, 4–6 December 2024.
• Roe, J. & Hinz, M. 2024. Estimating the prevalance of post-agricultural population declines through the global radiocarbon record . Presented at the World Neolithic Congress, Şanlıurfa, 4–8th November 2024.
• Hinz, M. & Roe, J. 2024. ESTER: Estimation of the prehistoric population of Eurasia based on a large number of records . Presented at the World Neolithic Congress, Şanlıurfa, 4–8th November 2024.
• Heitz, C., Ismail-Meyer, K., Aellen, C., & Roe, J. 2024. Climate Change Resilience and Vulnerabilities of Waterfront Communities – Mixed Methods Research on ‘Pile Dwellings’ around the Alps (4000-800 BCE) . Presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Rome, 28-31 August 2024.
• Heitz, C., Ismail-Meyer, K., Aellen, C., & Roe, J. 2024. Coping with the Cold – Climate Change Resilience and Vulnerabilities of Bronze Age Communities during the 3.7 ka ‘Löbben’ Glacier Advance (ca. 1900–1450 BCE) . Presented at Climate of the Past and Societal Responses to Environmental Changes (Climpast), Bern, 5–8 June 2024.

2023

• Roe, J. 2023. Modelling the range of wild plants and crop progenitors in the Late Epipalaeolithic–Early Neolithic Levant . Presented at Digital Archaeology Bern – Ancient West Asia.
• Roe, J. 2023. More than just porridge: old materialism and the macroarchaeology of the Neolithic Revolution . Presented at the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Copenhagen.
• Roe, J. & Hinz, M. 2023. XRONOS: open chronometric data from archive to infrastructure . Presented at Digital Archaeology Bern 2023.

2022

• Roe, J. & Hinz, M. 2022. XRONOS: challenges in building a global open repository for chronometric data . Presented at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Budapest, 31 August – 3 September.
• Roe, J. 2022. Are we what we eat? The Southwest Asian ‘Neolithic Revolution’ as macroarchaeological theory . Presented at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Budapest, 31 August – 3 September.
• Hinz, M. & Roe, J. 2022. Zoom and Enhance: high-resolution reconstruction of macro-scale processes with Bayesian hierarchical models . Presented at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, Budapest, 31 August – 3 September.

2021

• Roe, J. 2021. Computational models of chronology and regional settlement in the Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic Zagros (20000–6000 BP) . Presented at the 'Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in the eastern Fertile Crescent' conference, Copenhagen.
• Roe, J. 2021. Nonequilibrium dynamics in models of human palaeoecology . Presented at Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Limassol (Virtual).
• Batist, Z. & Roe, J. 2021. Open archaeology: a survey of collaborative software engineering in archaeological research . Presented at Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Limassol (Virtual).
• Roe, J. 2021. A revised radiocarbon chronology of Ganj Dareh . Presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, 'Ganj Dareh Then and Now: Integrating Past and Current Research'.
• Roe, J. 2021. Out with the new, in with the old: recent advances in palaeoecological modelling with open data . Presented at the Association for Environmental Archaeology Spring Meeting 2021: Open Science Practices in Environmental Archaeology, Oxford.
• Roe, J. 2021. On uncertain ground: modelling human palaeoecology in the Azraq basin, eastern Jordan, 24,000–8,000 BP . Presented at the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Bologna.
• Pedersen, P. N., Roe, J., & Richter, T. 2021. Free foragers? A case for transient social inequality at Epipalaeolithic Shubayqa, eastern Jordan . Presented at the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Bologna.

2019

• Roe, J., & Richter, T. 2019. Mutable mobilities: 15,000 years of nomadic settlement in the Qa’ Shubayqa, eastern Jordan . Presented at the 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies, Leiden.
• Buffington, A., Olson, K., Roe, J., Al Kathiri, A. A., McCorriston, J. 2019. Over Mountains and Through Woods: survey results and preliminary spatial analysis of the 2018 field season of the Ancient Socio-Ecological Systems in Oman (ASOM) project . Presented at the 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies, Leiden.
• Arranz-Otaegui, A., Roe, J., Pantos, G. A., Santana, J., Araus-Cabrera, J. L., Le Roux, P., & Richter, T. 2019. Locally available or imported? Identifying the provenance of Natufian plant food and fuel resources at Shubayqa 1 (northeastern Jordan) . Presented at the 18th conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP), Lecce.
• Roe, J. 2019. Gorram shiny! An accessible interface for reproducible landscape archaeology with R and fieldwalkr . Presented at Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Kraków.
• Richter, T., Arranz Otaegui, A., Jones, M., Roe, J., & Yeomans, L. 2019. Environmental Crisis and Societal Collapse: Was the Younger Dryas a significant factor in triggering the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in the Levant? . Presented at 'Culture in Crisis: Flows of Peoples, Artifacts and Ideas', the 14th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan (ICHAJ 14), Florence.

2018

• Roe, J. 2018. fieldwalkr: an R package for spatial sampling and field survey simulation . Presented at the Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC), Newcastle & Durham.
• Richter, T., Arranz-Otaegui, A., Boaretto, E., Jones, M., Roe, J., & Yeomans, L. 2018. Reconstructing Environmental Impacts on Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Societies in the Marginal Zone of the southern Levant: A Case Study from Shubayqa . Presented at the XVIII UISPP World Congress, Paris.
• Roe, J. 2018. Is there anything R can’t do? . Presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference, Tübingen.

2017

• Martin, L. & Roe, J. 2017. The Complexities of Mammalian Body Size Change in Late Pleistocene to Holocene Southern Levant, 35 years on . Presented at 'From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: themes in European zooarchaeology', Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon.

2015

• Allentuck, A., Martin, L., Roe, J. 2015. Domestic maintenance practices in the Early Epipalaeolithic of the Jordanian steppe . Presented at the 12th International Symposium of the ICAZ Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group (ASWA), Groningen.
• Roe, J. & Martin, L. 2015. Open season: modelling prehistoric wildlife dynamics in Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Jordan . Presented at the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) annual conference, London.