Stories of Ancient Resilience

Publications

Brokaw, Nicholas, Ward, Sheila E., Beach, Timothy, Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Walling, Stanley, Cortes-Rincon, Marisol, and Valdez, Fred. 2025. “The ancient Maya and the modern forest.” Biotropica 57 (1) :e13370 https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13370

Wright, Sterling L., Rayfield, Kristen M., Singleton, Robin R., Hughes, Karissa, Soficaru, Andrei, Creţu, Ciprian, Huang, Lushuang, Wu, Si, Reinberger, Katherine L., Rabinowitz, Adam, and Hofman, Courtney A.. 2024. “Ancient DNA and paleoproteomic analysis on Roman Imperial-era individuals from Histria, Romania.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 56 :104510 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104510

Character, Leila, Beach, Tim, Inomata, Takeshi, Garrison, Thomas G., Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Baldwin, J. Dennis, Cambranes, Rafael, Pinzón, Flory, and Ranchos, José L.. 2024. “Broadscale deep learning model for archaeological feature detection across the Maya area.” Journal of Archaeological Science 169 :106022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106022

Ledesma, David T., Scarpetta, Simon G., Iii, John J. Jacisin, Meza, Antonio, and Kemp, Melissa E.. 2024. “Identification of Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossil lizards from Hall’s Cave (Kerr County, Texas) and a primer on morphological variation in North American lizard skulls.” PLOS ONE 19 (8) :e0308714 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308714

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Krause, Samantha M., Brouwer Burg, Marieka, Willis, Mark, Perrotti, Angelina, and Bailey, Katie. 2024. “Late Archaic large-scale fisheries in the wetlands of the pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands.” Science Advances 10 (47) :eadq1444 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq1444

Locker, Angelina J., Valdez, Fred, Breecker, Daniel O., Banner, Jay L., Loewy, Staci L., Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Drake, Stacy M., Hyde, David M., Trachman, Rissa M., and Lewis, Brandon S.. 2023. “Ancient Maya movement in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, NW Belize.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49 :104052 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104052

Muñoz-Salinas, Esperanza, Cook, Duncan, Castillo, Miguel, Beach, Timothy, and Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl. 2023. “Four millennia of geomorphic change and human settlement in the lower Usumacinta–Grijalva River Basin, Mexico.” Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment :03091333231156506 https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333231156506

Doyle, Colin, Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, and Beach, Timothy. 2022. “Advances in remote sensing of the early Anthropocene in tropical wetlands: From biplanes to lidar and machine learning.” Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment :03091333221134185 https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333221134185

Cook, Duncan E., Beach, Timothy P., Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Dunning, Nicholas P., and Turner, Simon D.. 2022. “Environmental legacy of pre-Columbian Maya mercury.” Frontiers in Environmental Science 10 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.986119

Nordt, Lee, Breecker, Daniel, and White, Joseph. 2022. “Jurassic greenhouse ice-sheet fluctuations sensitive to atmospheric CO2 dynamics.” Nature Geoscience 15 (1) :54-59 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00858-2

Wells, Greta H, Dugmore, Andrew J, Beach, Timothy, Baynes, Edwin RC, Sæmundsson, Þorsteinn, and Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl. 2022. “Reconstructing glacial outburst floods (jökulhlaups) from geomorphology: Challenges, solutions, and an enhanced interpretive framework.” Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 46 (3) :398-421 https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333211065001

Inomata, Takeshi, Fernandez-Diaz, Juan Carlos, Triadan, Daniela, García Mollinedo, Miguel, Pinzón, Flory, García Hernández, Melina, Flores, Atasta, Sharpe, Ashley, Beach, Timothy, Hodgins, Gregory W. L., Durón Díaz, Juan Javier, Guerra Luna, Antonio, Guerrero Chávez, Luis, Hernández Jiménez, María de Lourdes, and Moreno Díaz, Manuel. 2021. “Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar.” Nature Human Behaviour 5 (11) :1487-1501 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01218-1

Sekhon, Natasha, Beach, Tim, Krause, Samantha, and Eshleman, Sara. 2021. “Understanding climate trends in Central America through practical problem-based learning.” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 45 (2) :298–318

Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Beach, Timothy P., and Dunning, Nicholas P.. 2021. “Wetland Farming and the Early Anthropocene: Globally Upscaling from the Maya Lowlands with LiDAR and Multiproxy Verification.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3) :795-807 https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1820310

Guderjan, Thomas, Kwoka, Joshua, Hanratty, Colleen, Beach, Timothy, Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl, Krause, Samantha, Eshleman, Sara, and Doyle, Thomas Ruhland Colin. 2020. “Early Onset Anthropocene: Control of the Landscape by the Ancient Maya in Northwestern Belize.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 17 :105-117

Eshleman, Sara and Beach, Timothy. 2020. “Soil fertility of cohune palm (Attalea cohune) dominant forests compared to non-cohune forests in northwestern Belize.” Plant and Soil 452 (1) :295-311 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04575-4

Dunning, Nicholas P., Ruhl, Thomas, Carr, Christopher, Beach, Timothy, Brown, Clifford, and Luzzadder-Beach, Sheryl. 2020. “The ancient Maya wetland fields of Acalán.” Mexicon 42 (4) :91–105

Mickler, Patrick J., Carlson, Peter, Banner, Jay L., Breecker, Daniel O., Stern, Libby, and Guilfoyle, Amber. 2019. “Quantifying carbon isotope disequilibrium during in-cave evolution of drip water along discreet flow paths.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 244 :182-196 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.027

Zimmer, Anaïs, Beach, Timothy, Klein, Julia A., and Recharte Bullard, Jorge. “The need for stewardship of lands exposed by deglaciation from climate change.” WIREs Climate Change n/a (n/a) :e753 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.753