Benjamin Vining
Biographic Data
| ID | 155835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Vining |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Vining |
| SIGNATURE | VINING B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9375-5151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chronology, Continuity, and Hiatus
Cultural sequences often rely on relative or typological chronological techniques, even as radiometric methods producing absolute ages become increasingly common. This reflects the perception that typological approaches are faster and sufficiently reliable, whereas radiometric precision demands greater time and financial investment. Here, we present a strategy for obtaining radiocarbon ages from monumental mudbrick structures (huacas), reporting …
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene Enso climate changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can create markedly different hydroclimate conditions over interannual–centennial scales. However, a main driver of such volatility – the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – occurs with semiregular periodicity. Paleoclimatic and archeological evidence indicate not only that the strength and periodicity of ENSO pattern…
Crossing the western Altiplano
Paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence from Lake Suches for highland Andean refugia during the arid middle-Holocene
Severe aridity during the mid-Holocene, ca. 8.0–4.0 kyr BP, led to extreme ecological stress in the tropical Andes. Here, we report paleolimnological and archeological data from Lake Suches in southern Peru (70° 24’ 12” W, 16° 55’ 35” S) spanning 13.6–4.4 kyr BP. Integrated paleoclimate and archeological data reveal that moisture was locally available and the basin served as an ecological refugium throughout the mid-Holocene. Mid-Holocene aridity…
Cultural Niche Construction and Remote Sensing of Ancient Anthropogenic Environmental Change in the North Coast of Peru
Droughts, floods, and farming at Quebrada Tacahuay from late prehispanic to colonial times
We describe diachronic evidence of moisture reduction and its consequences for coastal irrigation, agriculture, and settlement at Quebrada Tacahuay, a large drainage south of the Osmore River in far southern Peru. These observations are the first for a drainage of this size and for one with occupation spanning over 12,000 years for southern Peru. Following several millennia of occupation by coastal foragers, farming populations settled the lower …
Reconstructions of local resource procurement networks at Cerro Baúl, Peru using multispectral Aster satellite imagery and geospatial modeling
Más Allá Encuentran Los Antiguos
Aymara herders in the highland regions of southern Peru and Bolivia express highly ambivalent attitudes towards archaeological patrimony. In this post-colonial setting, they follow strong avoidance behaviours towards archaeological sites directly associated with gentiles — the mummified remains of prehistoric, pagan individuals. Conversely, certain archaeological features are incorporated into modern discourses. This selective embracing of archae…
Tiwanaku trade patterns in southern Peru
An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, Egypt, in Search of Boats
A geophysical survey at the pyramid complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur sought to determine the suitability of magnetometry and electromagnetic induction (EMI, or conductivity) for mapping the area where several ancient boat-burials were found in the 1890s. At least one boat reported at the time of excavation remains unaccounted for. Tests demonstrated that magnetometry does detect subsurface structures of stone, fired brick, and unfired brick un…
Multispectral and synthetic aperture radar remote-sensing-based models for holocene coastline development in the Ambracian Gulf, Epirus, Greece
In this paper we explore the use of high-platform remotely sensed data from Landsat ETM, SPOT IV HRV, Radarsat and ASTER satellites in combination with sedimentological data from previous geological coring research to understand the alluvial history of the Ambracian Gulf, Greece. Using sensor response to variable compositions and textures of discrete deposits, we are able to reconstruct the spatial extent of sedimentary lithosomes. Geological cor…
Maya Calendar Reform? Evidence from Orientations of Specialized Architectural Assemblages
Long before they devised a written calendar, the Maya articulated their seasons by means of an "orientation calendar" that consisted of visual alignments involving their architecture. One specialized set of buildings, Group Eat Uaxactún, Guatemala, in the Petén lowlands, has been regarded as the prototype of such a calendar. We present new data based on precise measurements made in the field at 12 Group E complexes and obtained for a number of ad…
Maya Calendar Reform? Evidence from Orientations of Specialized Architectural Assemblages
Long before they devised a written calendar, the Maya articulated their seasons by means of an "orientation calendar" that consisted of visual alignments involving their architecture. One specialized set of buildings, Group Eat Uaxactún, Guatemala, in the Petén lowlands, has been regarded as the prototype of such a calendar. We present new data based on precise measurements made in the field at 12 Group E complexes and obtained for a number of ad…
Crossing the western Altiplano
Cultural Niche Construction and Remote Sensing of Ancient Anthropogenic Environmental Change in the North Coast of Peru
Paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence from Lake Suches for highland Andean refugia during the arid middle-Holocene
Severe aridity during the mid-Holocene, ca. 8.0–4.0 kyr BP, led to extreme ecological stress in the tropical Andes. Here, we report paleolimnological and archeological data from Lake Suches in southern Peru (70° 24’ 12” W, 16° 55’ 35” S) spanning 13.6–4.4 kyr BP. Integrated paleoclimate and archeological data reveal that moisture was locally available and the basin served as an ecological refugium throughout the mid-Holocene. Mid-Holocene aridity…
An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, Egypt, in Search of Boats
A geophysical survey at the pyramid complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur sought to determine the suitability of magnetometry and electromagnetic induction (EMI, or conductivity) for mapping the area where several ancient boat-burials were found in the 1890s. At least one boat reported at the time of excavation remains unaccounted for. Tests demonstrated that magnetometry does detect subsurface structures of stone, fired brick, and unfired brick un…
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene Enso climate changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can create markedly different hydroclimate conditions over interannual–centennial scales. However, a main driver of such volatility – the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – occurs with semiregular periodicity. Paleoclimatic and archeological evidence indicate not only that the strength and periodicity of ENSO pattern…
Maya Calendar Reform? Evidence from Orientations of Specialized Architectural Assemblages
Long before they devised a written calendar, the Maya articulated their seasons by means of an "orientation calendar" that consisted of visual alignments involving their architecture. One specialized set of buildings, Group Eat Uaxactún, Guatemala, in the Petén lowlands, has been regarded as the prototype of such a calendar. We present new data based on precise measurements made in the field at 12 Group E complexes and obtained for a number of ad…
Multispectral and synthetic aperture radar remote-sensing-based models for holocene coastline development in the Ambracian Gulf, Epirus, Greece
In this paper we explore the use of high-platform remotely sensed data from Landsat ETM, SPOT IV HRV, Radarsat and ASTER satellites in combination with sedimentological data from previous geological coring research to understand the alluvial history of the Ambracian Gulf, Greece. Using sensor response to variable compositions and textures of discrete deposits, we are able to reconstruct the spatial extent of sedimentary lithosomes. Geological cor…
An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, Egypt, in Search of Boats
A geophysical survey at the pyramid complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur sought to determine the suitability of magnetometry and electromagnetic induction (EMI, or conductivity) for mapping the area where several ancient boat-burials were found in the 1890s. At least one boat reported at the time of excavation remains unaccounted for. Tests demonstrated that magnetometry does detect subsurface structures of stone, fired brick, and unfired brick un…
Tiwanaku trade patterns in southern Peru
Reconstructions of local resource procurement networks at Cerro Baúl, Peru using multispectral Aster satellite imagery and geospatial modeling
Más Allá Encuentran Los Antiguos
Aymara herders in the highland regions of southern Peru and Bolivia express highly ambivalent attitudes towards archaeological patrimony. In this post-colonial setting, they follow strong avoidance behaviours towards archaeological sites directly associated with gentiles — the mummified remains of prehistoric, pagan individuals. Conversely, certain archaeological features are incorporated into modern discourses. This selective embracing of archae…
Cultural Niche Construction and Remote Sensing of Ancient Anthropogenic Environmental Change in the North Coast of Peru
Droughts, floods, and farming at Quebrada Tacahuay from late prehispanic to colonial times
We describe diachronic evidence of moisture reduction and its consequences for coastal irrigation, agriculture, and settlement at Quebrada Tacahuay, a large drainage south of the Osmore River in far southern Peru. These observations are the first for a drainage of this size and for one with occupation spanning over 12,000 years for southern Peru. Following several millennia of occupation by coastal foragers, farming populations settled the lower …
Paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence from Lake Suches for highland Andean refugia during the arid middle-Holocene
Severe aridity during the mid-Holocene, ca. 8.0–4.0 kyr BP, led to extreme ecological stress in the tropical Andes. Here, we report paleolimnological and archeological data from Lake Suches in southern Peru (70° 24’ 12” W, 16° 55’ 35” S) spanning 13.6–4.4 kyr BP. Integrated paleoclimate and archeological data reveal that moisture was locally available and the basin served as an ecological refugium throughout the mid-Holocene. Mid-Holocene aridity…
Crossing the western Altiplano
Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene Enso climate changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can create markedly different hydroclimate conditions over interannual–centennial scales. However, a main driver of such volatility – the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – occurs with semiregular periodicity. Paleoclimatic and archeological evidence indicate not only that the strength and periodicity of ENSO pattern…
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
Chronology, Continuity, and Hiatus
Cultural sequences often rely on relative or typological chronological techniques, even as radiometric methods producing absolute ages become increasingly common. This reflects the perception that typological approaches are faster and sufficiently reliable, whereas radiometric precision demands greater time and financial investment. Here, we present a strategy for obtaining radiocarbon ages from monumental mudbrick structures (huacas), reporting …
Geography (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Holocene (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Physical geography (3 works)