Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. The Americas
6. Pre-Columbian (American)
7. [Pre-Columbian South American styles and periods]
8. Pre-Columbian Ecuadorian periods

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the Pre-Columbian culture and style that flourished in the Guayas River basin of coastal Ecuador ca. 700-1500 CE. Noted for large chiefdoms in a lowland landscape, the use of sophisticated cultivation of the seasonally flooded river wetlands, and the construction of large elevated earthen platforms called "tolas," which were used for both habitation and burial.