All Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
- T. Inomata, D. Triadan, V. A. Vázquez López, J. Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, T. Omori, M. Belén Méndez Bauer, M. García Hernández, T. Beach, C. Cagnato, K. Aoyama, H. Nasu. 2020. Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2343-4 ; Free access . 03 June 2020.
- C. Harden, S. Luzzadder-Beach, G. MacDonald, R. Marston, J. Winkler. 2020. Editorial: "Physical geography contributes.” Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment. (Sage) 44(1):5-13.
- W. Delgado, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach. 2020. “Solar desalination: Cases, synthesis, and challenges.” WIRES Water. May/June 2020. 7(3): e1434. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/wat2.1434. Published 27 April 2020.
- N. P. Dunning, T. Ruhl, C. Carr, T. Beach, C. Brown, S. Luzzadder-Beach (accepted). “The Ancient Maya wetland fields of Acalán.” Accepted for publication in Mexicon. February 2020.
- T. Beach, T., S. Luzzadder-Beach, N. Dunning, S. Krause. (in Press, 2020). “Paleoecology, Soil, and Water in Maya History.” Chapter 13. In: Scott Hutson and Traci Ardren (eds.) The Maya World. Routledge. Abingdon, UK. Pp. 229-249. ISBN: 9781138492837. To be published 16 June 2020.
- N. Dunning, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach. (in Press, 2020). “Ancient Maya Agriculture.” Chapter 27. In: Scott Hutson and Traci Ardren (eds.) The Maya World. Routledge. Abingdon, UK. Pp. 501-518. ISBN: 9781138492837. To be published 16 June 2020.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, S. Krause, T. Guderjan, F. Valdez, Jr., J. C. Fernandez-Diaz, S. Eshleman, C. Doyle. 2019. Ancient Maya wetland fields revealed under tropical forest canopy from laser scanning and multiproxy evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(43):21469–21477.; SI online pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910553116. (covered in 30 media features in 7 countries). 10/22/19.
- W. Delgado, T. Beach, and S. Luzzadder-Beach. (on line 10-11 2019). “Solar rich and water poor: The case for solar desalination in El Paso, Texas.” The Professional Geographer, 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2019.1653776
- ArchaeoGLOBE Project (Beach, T author list on SI). 2019 (8-30). Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365, 897–902. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1192
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, N. Dunning. (2019 August) “Out of the Soil: Soil (Dark Matter Biodiversity) and Societal ‘Collapses’ from Mesoamerica to the Mesopotamia and Beyond” Chapter 5, 138-174 in Partha Dasgupta, Peter Raven, Anna McIvor (Eds.) Biological Extinctions: New Perspectives (Proceedings of the Vatican Workshop on Biological Extinction) Cambridge University Press, ISBN:9781108711814.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, C. Cordova, Eds., 2019. Human geomorphological interactions and the legacy of Karl W. Butzer. Geomorphology (Elsevier), Vol. 331, pp. 1-190. Special Issue based on the 2017 AAG Physical Geography Symposium of 25 papers over three days.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, C. Cordova, 2019. Human impacts on geomorphic systems and the legacy of Karl W. Butzer. Geomorphology. 331, 1-3.
- S. Krause, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Guderjan, F. Valdez, S. Eshleman, C. Doyle, S. Bozarth, 2019. Ancient Maya wetland management in two watersheds in Belize: soils, water, and paleoenvironmental change. Quaternary International, Volume 502, Part B, 280-295.
- S. Krause, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, D. Cook, G. Islebe, M.R. Palacios-Fest, S. Eshleman, C. Doyle, T. Guderjan, 2019. Wetland geomorphology and paleoecology near Akab Muclil, Rio Bravo floodplain of the Belize coastal plain. Geomorphology 331, 146-159.
- N.P. Dunning, A. Anaya Hernández, T. Beach, C. Carr, R. Griffin, J. Jones, D. Lentz, S. Luzzadder-Beach, K. Reese-Taylor, I. Šprajc, 2019. Margin for Error: Anthropogenic Geomorphology of Bajo Edges in the Maya Lowlands (19 pp). Geomorphology 331, 127-145.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, 2019. Using Water Chemistry to Understand Ancient Maya Land and Water Use Interactions. Keynote Chapter in H. Chenchouni et al. (Eds.): Exploring the Nexus of Geoecology, Geography, Geoarcheology and Geotourism: Advances and Applications for Sustainable Development in Environmental Sciences and Agroforestry Research. Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 3-4.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, S. Krause, C. Doyle, 2019. An Early Anthropocene Analog: the Geomorphology and Hydrology of the Rio Bravo Watershed in the Belize Tropics. Keynote Chapter in Boughdiri et al (Eds.): Paleobiodiversity and Tectono-Sedimentary Records in the Mediterranean Tethys and Related Eastern Areas: Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 11-14.
- S. Heckbert, C. Isendahl, J. Gunn, S. Brewer, V. Scarborough, A.F. Chase, D.Z. Chase, R. Costanza, N. Dunning, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, D. Lentz, P. Sinclair, 2019. "Growing the ancient Maya social-ecological system from the bottom up." 37 pp. Chapter in: Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, C. Isendahl & D. Stump, eds. Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 302-322.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, C. Doyle, W. Delgado, 2018. Environments of El Zotz: water and soil chemistry, the El Zotz Dam, and long-term environmental change. In: T.G. Garrison, S. Houston (Eds.). An Inconstant Landscape: The Archaeology of El Zotz, Guatemala. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO. pp. 163-188.
- N. Dunning, T. Beach, E. Graham, S. Luzzadder-Beach, 2018. Maize, manioc, mamey and more: Precolumbian Lowland Maya agriculture. In: Reid, B.A. (Ed.), The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (5000 BC - AD 1500). Routledge: New York, NY, 329-352.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, D. Cook, S. Krause, C. Doyle, S. Eshleman, G. Wells, N. Dunning, M. Brennan, N. Brokaw, M. Cortes-Rincon, G. Hammond, R. Terry, D. Trein, S. Ward, 2018. Stability and instability on Maya Lowlands tropical hillslope soils. Geomorphology 305, 185-208.
- T. Beach, A. Ulmer, D. Cook, M.L. Brennan, S. Luzzadder-Beach, C. Doyle, S. Eshleman, S. Krause, M. Cortes-Rincon, R. Terry, 2018. Geoarchaeology and tropical forest soil catenas of Northwestern Belize. Quaternary International 463 (Part A), 198-217.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, T. Garrison, S. Houston, J. Doyle, E. Roman, S. Bozarth, R. Terry, S. Krause, J. Flood, 2017. Paleoecology and geoarchaeology at El Palmar and the El Zotz region, Guatemala. Geoarchaeology 32, 90-106.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, J. Flood, 2017. Synthesis of geoarchaeological research around Kinet Höyük, Hatay, Turkey. In: E. Kozal, M. Akar, Y. Heffron, Ç. Çilingiroğlu, T.E. Şerifoğlu, C. Çakırlar, S. Ünlüsoy, É. Jean (Eds.). Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates. Ugarit-Verlag, Munster, pp. 771-802.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach. Section Editor, Hydrology. 2017. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Douglas Richardson, Editor-in-Chief (American Association of Geographers and Wiley-Blackwell). 15 Volumes. ISBN 9780470659632 (cloth and digital).
- D. Hixson, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, B.H. Dahlin, 2017. Environmental heterogeneity in the Chunchucmil economic region. In: S. Hutson (Ed.). Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO, pp. 139-155.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, 2017. Hydrology on the edge of the Chicxulub crater: Chunchucmil and Ucí-Cansahcab groundwater resources. In: S. Hutson (Ed.), Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO, pp. 157-167.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, R.V. Sweetwood, P. Farrell, D. Mazeau, R.E. Terry, 2017. Soils and agricultural carrying capacity. In: S. Hutson (Ed.), Ancient Maya Commerce: Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO, pp. 197-219.
- T.H. Guderjan, S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, S. Bozarth, S. Krause, 2017. Production of ancient wetland agricultural commodities in the Maya Lowlands. In: J.P. Mathews, T.H. Guderjan, (Eds.), The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, pp. 30-48.
- D.E. Cook, T. Beach, A.A. Demarest, 2017. Slaughter and soil: a geophysical record of the late Classic Maya from Cancuen, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15, 330-343.
- A. Chin, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, W.D. Solecki, 2017. Challenges of the “Anthropocene.” Anthropocene 20, 1-3.
- A. Chin, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, W. Solecki, Eds., 2017. Special Issue “Challenges of the Anthropocene,” Anthropocene. (Elsevier). Vol. 20, pp. 1-90. December 2017.
- T. Beach, 2016. Morals to the story of the “Mayacene” from geoarchaeology and paleoecology. In: N. Sanz (Ed.), Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Forest Conservation: managing production and consumption for sustainability. UNESCO, Paris.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, S. Hutson, S. Krause, 2016. Sky-earth, lake-sea: climate and water in Maya history and landscape. Antiquity 90, 426-442.
- S. Krause, T. Guderjan, T. Beach., S. Luzzadder-Beach, 2016. Sixty years of remote sensing in the Maya Lowlands: A review of techniques and tools. Center for Archaeological and Tropical Studies Occasional Papers 21, 61-80.
- M.P. Smyth, T. Beach, E. Weaver, 2016. Climate change and chiefdom ecodynamics in the eastern Andean Cordillera of Colombia. Center for Archaeological and Tropical Studies Occasional Papers 21, 15-32.
- L. Aebersold, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Guderjan, F. Valdez, 2016. The Blue Creek rejollada revisited: Transitional imprints inon sedimentological records. Center for Archaeological and Tropical Studies Occasional Papers 21, 33-48.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, N. Dunning, D. Cook, 2016. Maya climatic changes and collapses. In: Latorre, C. (Ed.), PAGES (Past Global Changes) Special Issue "Climate change and cultural evolution" 24(02), 66-67.
- T. Beach, K. M. Johnson, M. McCusker Hill, S. Munoz, M. Peros, 2016. The view from the “Anthropocene”: New perspectives in human-induced environmental change, Anthropocene 15, 1-2.
- T. Guderjan, S. Krause, S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, C. Brown, 2016. Visualizing Maya agriculture along the Rio Hondo: a remote sensing approach. In: D. Walker (Ed.), Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay. University of Press of Florida, pp. 92-106.
- T. Beach (Guest Editor), 2016. Special Issue on Climate Change and Archaeology in Mesoamerica. Global and Planetary Change 138, 1–2.
- M. Elizalde, S. J. Burns, J.P. Martinez, F. Lases-Hernández, T. Beach, S. Chuan-Chou, W. Hao-Cheng, 2016. High-resolution speleothem record of precipitation from the Yucatan Peninsula spanning the Maya Preclassic Period. Global and Planetary Change 138, 93-102.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, S. Krause, S. Walling, N. Dunning, J. Flood, T. Guderjan, F. Valdez, 2015. ‘Mayacene’ floodplain and wetland formation in the Rio Bravo watershed of Northwestern Belize. The Holocene 25(10), 1612–1626.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, D. Cook, N. Dunning, D. Kennett, S. Krause, R. Terry, D. Trein, F. Valdez, 2015. Ancient Maya impacts on the earth's surface: an early anthropocene analog? Quaternary Science Reviews 124, 1–30.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Guderjan, S. Krause, 2015. The floating gardens of Chan Cahal: soils, water, and human interactions. Catena 132, 151-164.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, J. Flood, S. Houston, T. Garrison, E. Roman, S. Bozarth, J. Doyle, 2015. A Neighborly view: Water and environmental history of the El Zotz region. In: D. Lentz, N. Dunning, V. Scarborough (Eds.), Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City. Cambridge University Press, pp. 258-79.
- D. Kennett, T. Beach, 2014. Archaeological and environmental lessons for the Anthropocene from the Classic Maya collapse. The Anthropocene 4: 88-100.
- N. Dunning, D. Wahl, T. Beach, J.G. Jones, S. Luzzadder-Beach, C. McCormick, 2014. The End of the beginning: Drought, environmental change, and the Preclassic to Classic transition in the Maya Lowlands. In: G. Iannone (Ed.), The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO, pp. 107-126.
- N. Dunning, T. Beach, L. Grasiozo Sierra, J.G. Jones, D.L. Lentz, S. Luzzadder-Beach, V.L. Scarborough, M.P. Smyth, 2013. A Tale of two collapses: Environmental variability and cultural disruption in the Maya Lowlands. Diálogo Andino 41, 171-183.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, J. Lohse, 2013. Landscape formation and agriculture in the wetlands of Northwestern Belize. In: J.C. Lohse (Ed.), Classic Maya Political Ecology, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles, CA, pp 43-67.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, 2013. Precolumbian people and the wetlands in Central and South America. In: F. Menotti, A. O’Sullivan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology, Oxford University Press, pp. 83-103.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, N. Dunning, 2012. Maya models and distant mirrors: wetland fields, drought, and the Maya abandonment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 3646–3651.
- N. Dunning, T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, 2012. Kax and Kol: Collapse and resilience in Lowland Maya civilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 3652–3657.
- B. Dahlin, M. Bastamow, T. Beach, Z. Hruby, S. Hutson, D. Mazeau, 2011. The Case of phantom lithics at Chunchucmil, Yucatán, Mexico. In: Z.X. Hruby, G.E. Braswell, O. Chinchilla Mazariego (Eds.), The Technology of Maya Civilization: Political Economy and Beyond in Lithic Studies, Equinox Publishing Ltd, London, UK.
- M. Benedetti, C. Cordova, T. Beach, 2011. Soils, sediments, and geoarchaeology: Introduction. Catena 85(2), 83-86.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, N. Dunning, R. Terry, S. Houston, T. Garrison, 2011. Carbon isotopic ratios of wetland and terrace soil sequences in the Maya Lowlands of Belize and Guatemala. Catena 85(2), 109-118.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach, R. Terry, K. Doctor, 2011. Elemental prospecting and geoarchaeology in Turkey and Mexico. Catena. 85(2), 119-129.
- T. Bhattacharya, T. Beach, D. Wahl, 2011. An Analysis of modern pollen rain from the Maya Lowlands of Northern Belize. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 109-120.
- T. Guderjan, J. Barrett, T. Beach, 2010. Current research in Northwestern Belize 2008 and 2009. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 7, 219-228.
- B. Dahlin, D. Bair, T. Beach, M. Moriarty, R. Terry, 2010. The Dirt on food: Ancient feasts and markets among the Lowland Maya. In: J.E. Staller, M. Carrasco (Eds.), Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Feasting, and Festivals in Ancient Mesoamerica, Springer-Verlag, pp. 191-234.
- N. Dunning, T. Beach, 2010. Farms and forests: Spatial and temporal perspectives on ancient Maya landscapes. In: I.P. Martini, Ward (Eds). Landscapes and Societies, Chesworth. Springer-Verlag. 9th Annual BGS. Geomorphology 101(1/2), pp., 369-389.
- T.H. Guderjan, T. Beach, S. Bozarth, C. Hanratty, S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Preston, 2010. New Information about the Demise of a Maya City: Fieldwork at Blue Creek, Belize, 2006 and 2007. Mexicon: Journal of Mesoamerican Studies 3(1),15-22.
- S. Luzzadder-Beach, T. Beach. 2009. “Arising from the Wetlands: Mechanisms and Chronology of Landscape Aggradation in the Northern Coastal Plain of Belize.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99(1):1-26.
- T. Beach, S. Luzzadder-Beach, N. Dunning, J. Jones, J. Lohse, T. Guderjan, S. Bozarth, S. Millspaugh, T. Bhattacharya, 2009. A Review of Human and Natural Changes in Maya Lowlands Wetlands over the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 28(17-18), 1710-1724.