2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part I

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part I" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The 2023 Fryxell Award for Earth Sciences scholarship is awarded to Dr. Timothy P. Beach, Professor and C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin. The 2023 Fryxell Award is presented in the Earth Sciences category due to the generous support of the family of the late, great geologist Roald Fryxell, who built his career on the interdisciplinary importance of the geological sciences in archaeology. This symposium, organized as part of the award, brings together a group of scholars working in diverse regions and fields but all with a common goal of advancing archaeology through a rigorous earth science focus. Here we celebrate Tim Beach’s distinguished and ongoing research career. Tim Beach is an accomplished geoarchaeologist and his research focuses on the reconstruction of past land-use patterns, agriculture, and human-environmental interaction over many temporal scales using many methods. He has worked most recently on using innovative geoarchaeological techniques in the Maya Lowlands, but Tim’s talent is not contained to one region or method. To compliment and honor Tim’s ongoing work, we showcase advances in our shared discipline related to geoarchaeology, soils, geochemistry, and remote sensing science.