Publications

2024          Watanabe, Reina. Analyzing Food Sources and Food Insecurity of Kichwa Farming Families in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/csesuht/44

2024          Price, Seth. “Water, salt, and heat in raised field agriculture: Using hydrologic modeling and thermal imagery to investigate soil drainage and temperature dynamics”. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(11), 180. DOI:10.1007/s12520-024-02082-6

2023         Craig, Cesca. Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis for Archaeological Site Detection: A Case Study for the Chicama Valley, Peru. Anthropology Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/anthuht/10

2022          Vining, Benjamin, Daniel Contreras, Aubrey Hillman, and Ernesto Tejedor. “Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes,” the Holocene 32(12): 1393-1409. DOI:10.1177/09596836221121761

2022          Vining, Benjamin, Aubrey Hillman, and Daniel Contreras. “El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America,” Journal of Arid Environments 198: 104695. DOI:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104695

2020          Vining, Benjamin and P. Ryan Williams. “Crossing the Western Altiplano: An Ecological Context to Tiwanaku Migrations,” Journal of Archaeological Science 113: 105046. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.105046

2018          Vining, Benjamin, Byron Steinman, and Mark Abbott.   “Palaeoclimatic and archaeological evidence from Lake Suches for highland Andean refugia during the arid middle Holocene,” The Holocene: 29(2) 328–344.  DOI: 10.1177/0959683618810405

2018          Vining, Benjamin and Sara Burns.  “Understanding the ecological decision-making of Tiwanaku pastoralists through geospatial Agent-based models,” in New Geospatial Approaches in Anthropology, edited by Robert Anemone and Glenn Conroy.  Albuquerque: School for Advanced Research Press, pp. 137 – 170.

2018          Christopher P. Dayton, Patrick Ryan Williams, Benjamin R. Vining, and Scott C. Smith.  “Geophysical Investigations at Khonkho Wankane,” in Khonkho Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, John W. Janusek, ed. Berkeley: Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, Number 68.  pp. 57 – 64.

2017          Vining, Benjamin, “Cultural Niche Construction and remote sensing of ancient anthropogenic environmental change in the north coast of Peru,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 25(2): 559-586. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-017-9346-y

2017          Michael E. Moseley, Susan D. deFrance, Benjamin Vining. “Droughts, floods, and farming at Quebrada Tacahuay from Late Prehispanic to Colonial times,” Ñawpa Pacha 37(1): 25-37.  DOI: 10.1080/00776297.2017.1324010

2017          Vining, Benjamin.  “Geophysical Surveys at Tanah Datar,” in Tanah Datar: Early Settlement Archaeology and History in the Highlands of Sumatra, Indonesia, Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz, editor. ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, pp.

2016          Vining, Benjamin. “Pastoral intensification, social fissioning, and ties to state economies at the Formative – Middle Horizon transition in the Lake Suches region, southern Peru,” in The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism, edited by José M. Capriles and Nicholas Tripcevich. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 87 – 118.

2015          Vining, Benjamin.  “Reconstructions of local resource procurement networks at Cerro Baúl, Peru using multispectral ASTER satellite imagery and geospatial modeling,” Journal of Archaeological Science 2: 492 – 506. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.05.001

2015          Vining, Benjamin. “Más Allá Encuentran los Antiguos: Temporality, Distance, and Instrumentality in Aymara Interactions with Archaeological Landscapes,” Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 25(1): 239 – 259.  DOI: 10.1017/S0959774314001073

2012          E. Edwards McKinnon, Benjamin Vining, Naniek Harkantiningsih Wibisono, Heddy Surachman, Sarjiyanto, Stanov Purnawibowo, and Lim Chen Sian.  “The Kota Rentang Excavations.”  Crossing States and Empire. Proceedings of the EurASEAA13 Conference. vol. 2., Singapore, pp. 67-81.

2010          Stanish, Charles, Edmundo de la Vega, Michael Moseley, Ryan Williams, Cecilia Chávez, Benjamin Vining, and Karl La Favre.  “Tiwanaku Trade Patterns in Southern Peru,” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29(4): 524–532. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2010.09.002

2009          Creasman, Paul, Benjamin Vining, Samuel Koepnick, and Noreen Doyle. “An Exploratory Geophysical Survey at the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, Egypt, in Search of Boats”. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 38: 386–399. DOI:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2008.00214.x

 2008          Vining, Benjamin, Patrick Ryan Williams, Deborah Blom, and Nicole Couture. “Hacia una imagen del espacio social en Tiwanaku: Perspectivas por medio de métodos geofísicos en el Altiplano boliviano.” Arqueología de las Tierras Atlas, Valles Interandinos, y Tierras Bajas de Bolivia: Memorias del I Congreso de Arqueología de Bolivia. Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, pp. 63–76.

2007          Vining, Benjamin. “Geophysical Survey,” in Harbor of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt: Archaeological Investigations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt, 2001 – 2005, Kathryn Bard and Rudolpho Fattocich, editors. Università Degli Studi de Napoli “L’Orientale,” Naples, Italy, pp. 77–90.

2006          Vining, Benjamin and James Wiseman. “Multispectral and SAR remote sensing-based models for Holocene coastline development in the Ambracian Gulf, Epirus, Greece.” Archaeological Prospection 13: 258–268. DOI: 10.1002/arp.292

2004          Williams, P. Ryan., Nicole Couture, Deborah Blom, John Janusek, Benjamin Vining, and Chris Dayton. “Ground-Based Remote Sensing and Early State Development in the South-Central Andes.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Remote Sensing Archaeology. Joint Laboratory of Remote Sensing Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, pp 149–157.

2003          Aveni, Anthony F., Anne S. Dowd and Benjamin Vining. “Maya Calender Reform? Evidence from Orientations of Specialized Architectural Assemblages,” Latin American Antiquity 14(2): 159–178. DOI: 10.2307/3557593