Benjamin R. Vining

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Chronology, Continuity, and Hiatus: Radiocarbon Dating of Monumental Mudbrick Architecture in Peru’s Chicama Valley

Cultural sequences often rely on relative or typological chronological techniques, even as radiometric methods producing absolute ages become increasingly common. This reflects the …

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El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a periodic disruption of coupled oceanic-atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific, which changes global precipitation regimes. One area …

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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 …

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Chicama Environmental Archaeology Project (CHEAP)

PIs: Benjamin R. Vining (U Arkansas), Daniel A. Contreras (U Florida)

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