Benjamin Vining
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Boston University (2003–2010); Wellesley College (2015)
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Benjamin Vining studies the long-term impacts of climate variability on human societies and ecological systems, with a particular focus on prehistoric agricultural practices and environmental adaptation. His research investigates how climatic events, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), have influenced vegetation productivity, agroecological niches, and the redistribution of risks in regions like northwestern South America.
Vining has received federal funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work. This includes a Doctoral Dissertation Research award totaling $22,644 to investigate human long-term adaptation to prehistoric ENSO-driven flooding and a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award of $29,801 focused on sustainable agricultural practices.
His publication record includes work on ENSO's effects on arid land vegetation in South America and the relationship between climate change and agricultural niches in Peru. He has also published on dating material culture changes in the Andes. Vining maintains an active lab website and has an h-index of 8 with 257 citations across 22 publications.
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- h-index: 8
- Publications: 22
- Citations: 264
Selected Publications
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Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes (2025)
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Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes (2022)
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El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America (2021)
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Crossing the western Altiplano: The ecological context of Tiwanaku migrations (2019)
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Paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence from Lake Suches for highland Andean <i>refugia</i> during the arid middle-Holocene (2018)
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Cultural Niche Construction and Remote Sensing of Ancient Anthropogenic Environmental Change in the North Coast of Peru (2017)
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Droughts, floods, and farming at Quebrada Tacahuay from late prehispanic to colonial times (2017)
Federal Grants 2 $52,445 total
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Sustainable Agricultural Practices
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human long term adaptation to prehistoric ENSO-driven flooding
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- El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America
- Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes
- El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America
- Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes
- Expanded agroecological niches and redistributed risks in northern Peru’s Chicama Valley during late-Holocene ENSO climate changes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
- Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
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